10 Easy Ministry Tasks to Do Between Easter and Summer
Easter is over, and summer’s not here yet—this short window is perfect for some low-effort, high-impact church spring cleaning.
We’re not talking about physical chores like dusting pews. This is about clearing digital clutter, organizing communication, and prepping your ministry for summer success.
Use this simple church spring cleaning checklist to refresh your systems and make space for what matters most: ministry.
1. Clean up your contact lists
Merge duplicates, remove outdated contacts, and correct formatting errors.
Use your texting platform (like Gloo!) to quickly identify inactive or bounced numbers. If your contact management system is synced with Gloo, it should be easy to do. Keeping your church database cleanup tasks up to date ensures smoother communication. This is also a great time to initiate a church contact list update to maintain accuracy.
2. Segment your lists into helpful groups
Create groups for volunteers, new visitors, parents, students, etc.
The Groups feature on Gloo makes this easy (and unlimited with Gloo+). Segmenting helps improve church group texting efforts by sending relevant messages. It’s also a smart way to segment church members for better personalization and engagement.
3. Set up (or review) automated workflows
Make sure Easter guests are getting follow-up texts or emails.
Automate a “What’s next?” message series for new visitors. Use church automation tools to streamline outreach and make communication more efficient. This type of automated church communication can help keep new guests engaged.
Start by using or customizing our New Guest Workflow Template.
4. Update your digital connect card
Spring is the perfect time to refresh forms, questions, or QR codes.
A QR code on your digital church connect card makes it easy for newcomers to engage, and keeping it updated ensures your follow-ups are going to the right place. A strong online church visitor form leads to better connections and data collection.
5. Organize your event calendar
Look ahead to VBS, summer camps, or church picnics—add them to your website, emails, and text plans now. You can automate sends so when the time comes, everything can go out without a hitch and you can stay focused on the task at hand.
Planning ahead is key to effective church event planning, and a well-managed summer church calendar can keep your congregation engaged all season.
When your events are planned, texting is a great way to maximize your attendance for your Spring events.
6. Refresh your volunteer lists and send a summer interest survey
Find out who’s available and willing to serve this summer.
Use a text poll to make it super simple to respond. Doing a quick audit supports effective volunteer management for churches and helps with proactive church volunteer planning for summer events.
7. Review your giving patterns
Do a post-Easter giving check-in. Where does your church stand compared to your annual goal?
Look for seasonal drops, recurring giving gaps, and new donor trends. Use that info to plan your next capital campaign or donor engagement strategy. Tracking church giving analytics will give you clarity and help you strategize around seasonal church donation patterns.
Once you have the analytics about giving at your church, you can take that and turn it into action. Take inspiration from another church and learn How Cedar Hills Church Increased Giving by 20% with Gloo+ and Messaging. You can hear from Melanie directly:
8. Update your sermon resource library
Organize sermon notes, outlines, and graphics so they’re easy to reuse or turn into small group guides.
Use this time to focus on sermon library organization, which makes it easier to reuse sermon content in future communications or studies.
9. Check all your links
Make sure your website, forms, and text keywords all work as expected.
Dead links lead to missed opportunities. A thorough church website link check and text keyword test ensures everything is functioning smoothly and that no visitor hits a digital dead end.
10. Send a spring check-in text
A friendly “How can we pray for you?” or “What’s one thing you’re looking forward to this summer?” goes a long way.
Boost connection and show that your church sees and cares. Sending these kinds of messages is an excellent use of church text message ideas and reinforces pastoral care via texting.
Begin Your Digital Spring Cleaning
You don’t need a full reset to feel refreshed.
These ten easy ministry tasks take just a little intentional time—but they’ll bring clarity, energy, and focus to your church in this short spring season.
Ready to take it even further? Use Gloo Messaging or Gloo+ to make each task easier, more efficient, and deeply impactful.