Holy Paging Systems!

Paging systems are often synonymous with high-stakes situations. Often, characters we watch on police and hospital dramas are summoned to the next confrontation or plot twist with the bleeping of their trusty pager. That's to say nothing of the real emergencies where pagers are the most logical choice for quick and reliable communications between emergency services personnel. Although pagers are commonly used in many commercial areas, such as in restaurants where they alert hungry diners to a free table, one place you might not have expected to hear of paging systems being implemented would be in a church. Another place you might not expect to find pagers is in a nursery. So what are the chances of finding the two uses combined?

Pagers in Church

At many large churches today, predominantly in the USA (but the practice is now spreading rapidly worldwide), you're assigned a pager when you drop your child or children off at the church's nursery. If a parent is needed in the nursery during the worship service, or whichever event they're attending at the church's premises, the nursery worker uses the church paging systems to notify the parent. It's as simple as pushing the pager number into the transmitter. When the pager vibrates, the parent can quietly leave the service and attend to their child.

Wide Services

Paging systems can be found in a range of sizes - as many churches differ in size, or hold outdoor events on the church grounds, the paging systems they use must be wide ranging enough to cover the entire church property so that parents can be reached anywhere, even in the car parks. Another advantage of using paging systems is that people around the parent aren't disturbed by any noise or bleeping during the service - it can be quite embarrassing when the ringtone of a mobile phone can be heard blaring over a hymn or psalm, for instance. A pager vibrates discreetly, allowing the parent to get up and leave respectfully and quietly.

Nursery Workers

Implementing paging systems in church nurseries has many benefits, not only for the convenience of the poor parent disturbed in the middle of their service, but for the nursery workers as well. No longer do they have to possibly leave their charges in order to interrupt a service themselves; and being able to summon a parent remotely means less staff are needed at any one time so that one can leave in case of emergencies. Regardless of the size of the nursery staff, it makes sense to have as many nursery attendees free to care for their charges as possible.

Philosophy

As many congregations will tell you, a church's size shouldn't matter in terms of the service it provides to its community. Paging systems have been successfully implemented in churches and nurseries all over the world, because timely and discreet communications can be just as important to everyday people as any rapid orders needing to be delivered in an emergency scenario. Pagers in churches are, ultimately, all about peace of mind - the goal of every good church-goer, surely?


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