church processes

QuickBooks is a marketing leader for small business finances. Churches often gravitate to this option because it's recommended by other nonprofits. But because of most church's unique financial management needs, QuickBooks is rarely the optimal choice.

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?” 

As a church leader, you don’t have the time to sit down and type information about your people into a spreadsheet and monitor your interactions with them. But church management software can mind that gap. So what, exactly, is a ChMS – and how can it help you better shepherd those God has entrusted to you?

Beep … beep … beep … beep… When you’re being treated in a hospital, that’s a good sound to hear. It means your heart is beating and the electronic monitor is working properly. Your pulse is only one of many numbers (metrics) that doctors, nurses, and technicians consider when gauging your health. Do you remember the last time you had lab work done, and how many different factors were measured and reported? It’s mind-boggling. But here’s the thing: All of these medical metrics are only indirect measures of your health.