Like every modern organization, churches have grown in their complexity and need for effective systems to help them accomplish their vision. The days of index cards, rolladex’s and filing cabinets have long since been abandoned in favor of advanced church management software. Like their printed counterparts of old, this software houses all the information related to members and guests of a particular church. This includes not only contact information that you might expect but also information like how they learned about the church, preferred volunteer interest areas, how much they contributed, and dates of their last background check.
One prominent and widely used tool is Churchteams. As the name suggests it uses church teams to track member involvement. Every class, group, event, project, committee, team and even part of a church’s assimilation process is tracked by the use of teams. In the 1990s church administration literature referred to this concept as a “church of groups” or doing “church as team”. It was found to greatly simplify the complex nature of growing church organizations.
Ideally everything related to church member tracking resides in a single system and the marketplace has helped entrepreneurs and church staff work together to improve the quality and functionality of modern church management systems. In fact the best systems now have optimized their user interface for use on any Internet connected device. That means you can use them as easily from a smart phone or tablet as you can from a laptop or desktop. This transition has helped force software designers to make complex systems much easier to use.
One prominent and widely used tool is Churchteams. As the name suggests it uses church teams to track member involvement. Every class, group, event, project, committee, team and even part of a church’s assimilation process is tracked by the use of teams. In the 1990s church administration literature referred to this concept as a “church of groups” or doing “church as team”. It was found to greatly simplify the complex nature of growing church organizations.
Ideally everything related to church member tracking resides in a single system and the marketplace has helped entrepreneurs and church staff work together to improve the quality and functionality of modern church management systems. In fact the best systems now have optimized their user interface for use on any Internet connected device. That means you can use them as easily from a smart phone or tablet as you can from a laptop or desktop. This transition has helped force software designers to make complex systems much easier to use.
