Send a Message to Missionaries serving in ward

Hoping someone from Church IT is reading this thread.
With the additional reliance on Send a Message, we'd like to include the Full-Time missionaries that are currently serving IN our wards with some routine bulletin distributions. They are not available to select as recipients. (I'm not talking about missionaries from our wards that are serving elsewhere in the world.) Or have I missed finding where they are selected from?

egibb wrote:Hoping someone from Church IT is reading this thread.

The Church Information and Communication Services (ICS) Department (Church IT) receives their business model and priorities from Church departments and councils rather from internal ICS management. Those who make the decisions most likely will not see this thread. Suggestions such as this can be submitted using the feedback link found at the bottom of the Send a Message page. It will be forwarded to and considered by the appropriate individuals; but it is unlikely you will get a personal response.

egibb wrote:With the additional reliance on Send a Message, we'd like to include the Full-Time missionaries that are currently serving IN our wards with some routine bulletin distributions. They are not available to select as recipients.

Until the Send a Message app is modified to include the missionaries serving in your ward messages can be sent to them by using their email addresses found in the Ward Directory and Map application. Select the Missionary tab at the bottom of the left pane to see their contact information.

You could also ask your ward mission leader to forward any important ward messages to the current missionaries. This will depend, of course, on how good your ward mission leader is at checking his email.

Using Send a Message for this probably won't get you the results you want. Most missionaries have a personal email address that is listed on their membership record and they don't monitor that address while on their mission. Unless the membership record is updated with the missionary's missionary.org email address, the messages from Send a Message are going to be sent to their individual email address and they won't see them until they return home.

scgallafent wrote:Using Send a Message for this probably won't get you the results you want. Most missionaries have a personal email address that is listed on their membership record and they don't monitor that address while on their mission. Unless the membership record is updated with the missionary's missionary.org email address, the messages from Send a Message are going to be sent to their individual email address and they won't see them until they return home.

So, what you're saying is this is more complicated than it looks. Code will have to be borrowed from the Map and Directory app to get access to the missionary emails.