Set Ablaze Flocknote Information

The Set Ablaze Flocknote network is a free communication platform that is available to be used by any church or pastorate during the Set Ablaze pastoral planning process (ending approximately July 2024).
*If a parish or pastorate would like to continue to use Flocknote after July 2024, please contact the diocesan IT office and we can get information about costs and migration of data.
This communication tool is organized first by pastorate with every church within the pastorate listed below. This allows for communication at a pastorate level and/or an individual church level.
Pastorates and churches can add additional groups to the platform in order to communicate with those specific groups.
Examples of other groups:
  • finance councils
  • planning committees
  • pastoral councils

This network is pre-populated with members pulled from ParishSOFT Family Directory.

The criteria we used to pre-populate Flocknote

  1. Member had to be registered and active in the parish  “and”
  2. The member was 18 years or older (if there was no birthdate listed a minor may have been pulled in)  “and”
  3. Member had either a phone number or an email address listed (you must have an email or a mobile number to be a member of Flocknote)
*If the criteria listed above were not met, the member was not added to the pastorate or church. We would highly recommend that someone local review the members listed in each individual parish before sending any communication.
Flocknote user permission levels:
1. Group Admin – Can manage members (add, edit, delete), send notes (text or email) and change settings for this group and this group only. You can have multiple group admins. You can assign a group admin to the pastorate as a whole and you can assign different group admins to individual churches.
2. Note Sender – Note senders can send notes (text or email) to a particular group but can’t manage members (add, edit, delete) or change settings to the group.
Contact the diocesan IT office to gain access to this communication platform
helpdesk@sfcatholic.org or call 605-988-3707