Faith Path Stage of Life Campaign¶

This recipe will allow you to send age appropriate emails to a child’s parents on the child’s birthday. The script will run each morning at 4:30 (CT) as part of the MorningBatch, finding those indicated in the search criteria and emailing the parents. The content should provide stage of life resources with perhaps a video from the pastor, links to resources, etc.

This recipe has 13 different emails as you see listed below. All but 2 are sent on the child’s birthday. The top 2 in the list are sent the day after a new people record is created for a child 2 or under and for a new record created for a child age 3 to 18.

Follow the steps below to create your own Faith Path Campaign. This one was based on the Home Point recommendations.

Step 1 - Emails

Create each email message in Special Content > Html Content giving each one a different Name, without any spaces (use CamelCasing).

The Title of the content will be the Subject of the email when it is sent.

This list matches the Python code and serves as a guide to make it easier for you to create your email content. See below for a sample email from one of our TouchPoint churches.

Name of Email Content	When to Send
FaithPath-Birth-2yrs	recently created records
FaithPath-Overview-3-18yrs	recently created records
FaithPath-Blessing-3yrs	on 3rd birthday
FaithPath-FamilyTime-4yrs	on 4th birthday
FaithPath-LeadChildtoChrist-5yrs	on 5th birthday
FaithPath-Prayer-6yrs	on 6th birthday
FaithPath-Bible-7yrs	on 7th birthday
FaithPath-Worship-8yrs	on 8th birthday
FaithPath-GivingServing-9yrs	on 9th birthday
FaithPath-Adolescence-11yrs	on 11th birthday
FaithPath-Purity-13yrs	on 13th birthday
FaithPath-RiteofPassage-16yrs	on 16th birthday
FaithPath-Launch-17yrs	on 17th birthday

Step 3 - Create Python Script

Select and copy all of the code below. Then go to Special Content > Python Scripts and click the New Python Script File button. Name the file FaithPathEmails.

Paste the code you copied from this document into the script and save the changes.

Step 4 - MorningBatch

Create a new Python script named MorningBatch or edit your existing one. Add the following line:

model.CallScript ('FaithPathEmails')

Note

If you name your Python Script something other than FaithPathEmails you must use that name in the line of code above. These names must match.

Step 4 - Edit Python Script

Replace the following:

• queuedby - enter the PID# of the person managing the emails (sending ‘on behalf of’)

• fromemail - enter (between quotes) the email address of the person sending the email

• fromname - enter (between quotes) the name of the person sending the email

Now review the search criteria in the script and make any changes that are necessary and save the script.

Sample Email with a Video Embedded¶

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queuedby = 1234
fromemail = 'pastor@mychurch.org'
fromname = 'John Anderson'

def SendEmail(content, query):
    model.EmailContent(query + '''
        AND MemberStatusId <> 40[Previous Member]
        AND DoNotCallFlag <> 1[True]
        AND DoNotVisitFlag <> 1[True]
        AND DoNotMailFlag <> 1[True]
''', queuedby, fromemail, fromname, content)

# Send email to recently created records
SendEmail("FaithPath-Birth-2yrs", '''
    Age <> ''
    Age <= 2
    AND RecentCreated( Days=1 ) = 1[True]
    AND ParentsOf = 1[True]
''')
SendEmail("FaithPath-Overview-3-18yrs", '''
    Age > 2
    AND Age <= 18
    AND RecentCreated( Days=1 ) = 1[True]
    AND ParentsOf = 1[True]
''')

# send these on their birthday
SendEmail("FaithPath-Blessing-3yrs", '''
    Age = 3
    AND DaysTillBirthday = 0
    AND ParentsOf = 1[True]
''')
SendEmail("FaithPath-FamilyTime-4yrs", '''
    Age = 4
    AND DaysTillBirthday = 0
    AND ParentsOf = 1[True]
''')
SendEmail("FaithPath-LeadChildtoChrist-5yrs", '''
    Age = 5
    AND DaysTillBirthday = 0
    AND ParentsOf = 1[True]
''')
SendEmail("FaithPath-Prayer-6yrs", '''
    Age = 6
    AND DaysTillBirthday = 0
    AND ParentsOf = 1[True]
''')
SendEmail("FaithPath-Bible-7yrs", '''
    Age = 7
    AND DaysTillBirthday = 0
    AND ParentsOf = 1[True]
''')
SendEmail("FaithPath-Worship-8yrs", '''
    Age = 8
    AND DaysTillBirthday = 0
    AND ParentsOf = 1[True]
''')
SendEmail("FaithPath-GivingServing-9yrs", '''
    Age = 9
    AND DaysTillBirthday = 0
    AND ParentsOf = 1[True]
''')
SendEmail("FaithPath-Adolescence-11yrs", '''
    Age = 11
    AND DaysTillBirthday = 0
    AND ParentsOf = 1[True]
''')
SendEmail("FaithPath-Purity-13yrs", '''
    Age = 13
    AND DaysTillBirthday = 0
    AND ParentsOf = 1[True]
''')
SendEmail("FaithPath-RiteofPassage-16yrs", '''
    Age = 16
    AND DaysTillBirthday = 0
    AND ParentsOf = 1[True]
''')
SendEmail("FaithPath-Launch-17yrs", '''
    Age = 17
    AND DaysTillBirthday = 0
    AND ParentsOf = 1[True]
''')