church members

Does your church management software (ChMS) make work easier, or is it a beast that you dread facing daily? Use your ChMS to optimize your ministry. 

Are you stuck in the same old routine when it comes to managing your online giving? It happens. Once you've found what works for getting daily tasks completed efficiently, you may never step outside your comfort zone. By not exploring the features available to you, you could be missing out.

One of the challenges of church ministry is how little time there is to step back and evaluate. Sunday is, after all, coming soon, that email inbox is filling up, the staff meetings, pastoral visits, and task lists aren’t going anywhere. And all of these things are great—they’re part of the blessing of church work. But it’s hard to find time to evaluate your church’s processes and systems and ask “is this still working for us?” 

As a church leader, you know that each person in your worship services or small groups is valuable. You hope that each person will want to grow spiritually as a part of your church family. But you realize that people come and go. Every church will have losses. People move away or graduate to heaven. And it’s inevitable that some folks will leave the church despite its best efforts to help them belong. Sometimes God wants to replant them somewhere else. Sometimes it’s a matter of “fit.”

There are obvious benefits to having a church app. Ministries can benefit from improved engagement if their church app is done well. When church members are able to stay better connected, communities can thrive. The statistics tell us that people spend three times longer on apps than mobile websites. Your church can and will benefit from a church app that provides tools to increase community, give, watch sermons, and share prayer requests. 

Building or growing a church of influence may start with a vision, but it only becomes reality through a multitude of people coming into one accord.  It is for this reason that leadership styles and tactics are so important. Across the nation, church leaders are asking an important question: How do I understand the millennial mindset? 

The phrase "closing the back door" is often used when addressing how to prevent members from leaving a church, but I think a better phrase is "leave no one behind." For many people who stop attending church, it's simply a matter of falling out of the habit. When someone from the church actively reaches out and invites the member to come back, that person is often more receptive and willing to return.

Collecting information from church members has always been a resource sink. Church leaders need to gather information from volunteers, visitors, and members signing up...