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Ministry Brands, the leading provider of church software solutions, today introduced MinistryID, a single sign-on solution that connects Ministry Brands’ comprehensive suite of applications using just one login credential.

It’s no secret that having the right software tools to power your ministry is critical in today’s society. We live in an app-based, digital world. As churches continue to evolve, they are adopting multiple platforms such as church management software, a church app for their congregation, an online giving service, and more.

Church attendance is on the decline. In 2000, 58% of adults had attended church in the last month. In 2015, only 46% of adults had attended church in the last month - a change of 12% in just 15 years. Making your church's first impression as a lasting impression is important to keep people coming back.

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?” 

The mission of the church is simple: go and make disciples. While simple in concept, the execution of making disciples is far from easy. Often, the Church unknowingly divides people from one another when unification is the goal.

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.”