Group Texts For Church Security Teams

Group texts are easy to start and work on any phone. For small, stable groups, they can be enough.

Where they break: everyone receives everything, authority controls are weak, and accountability can be inconsistent for rotating volunteer teams.

What Group Texts Do Well

  • No app onboarding friction
  • Immediate familiarity for volunteers
  • Fast setup for small teams

What Usually Breaks

  • No true on-duty routing
  • Hard to control who can broadcast
  • Message history is hard to manage for reviews

Where Sanctuary Signal Fits

Sanctuary Signal TEXT keeps the low-friction SMS experience while adding role-based controls, on-duty awareness, and cleaner operational visibility.

See how this compares in the Capability Matrix