Software

As a Kids Ministry Leader, it can feel like there are endless groups of people with whom you are responsible for communicating. Within @planningcenter People, lists are an excellent and often under-utilized resource for helping you stay organized. Here are 5 to check out and start using today.

How can you use technology to help a new believer start their journey of faith? An in-person interaction has its benefits. You can establish a comfortable connection through a face-to-face conversation with someone who is starting their journey. Yet, how do you help them take their first step once they leave the church building that Sunday? Use a church management system to continue communicating with the new believer. Swipe to learn how!

How can you encourage church attendees to open the Bible outside of Sundays? Promote downloading of a daily Bible reading app that can provide verses, passages, devotions and prayers every day.

Your church attendees are no strangers to online shopping, payments and donating. Make their online giving experience as seamless as one-click Amazon purchases.

What tools do you use to manage the different ministry areas of your church? You might find that every ministry has different needs, which calls for different tools to track what needs to get done for each. Wouldn't it be great if you could find all those tools on the same platform? Here are 7 church management systems that let you do just that! These systems can also help you with online registration, making event planning and registration a breeze.

What’s the latest tech hack to greatly simplify church communications? QR codes. Instead of listing off announcements, directing people to a giving page, or manually sending texts—people just scan the code and that’s it. No app required and minimal setup on the backend. Here are some easy ways to implement them at your church.

After an outreach event, make the effort to offer thanks to everyone who made the event possible: from your staff, event planners, and volunteers to those that attended! Gratitude can go a long way! Let them know they are appreciated because that can empower them to keep pursuing service through your church and expand God's kingdom in future events. Strengthen the relationship with everyone at your church by showing them how much you care about their contributions As you send out thank you emails, streamline the process by using a church management system to organize, write, and send them out to the right people at the right time.

A thoughtful, personal Thank You page will go a long way in positively impacting those who donate to your ministry. Need ideas?