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This software is about people and their process
of becoming fully devoted disciples of Christ.
It will help your church grow!
All churches will find People
Driven Software (PDS) a
very helpful, cutting-edge tool of technology.
It’s especially designed for
churches that
have a disciple-development
process of targeting lost people in their community and moving them
incrementally toward greater commitment to Christ. It’s for churches
that value community in small groups or in Sunday School classes.
It’s for churches that encourage spiritual growth by offering core
class instruction.
It’s for churches that value “every member ministry” where
each member is guided into service according to his or her uniqueness using
popular gift assessment methods.
PDS is “people-centric,“ not centered on business
and accounting like most church software. No
attempt has been made to re-create accounting software with features like
accounts payable, payroll, etc.
However, we recommend some great options for these functions. See
our accounting recommendations.
Here's a list of just some of the
features in People Driven Software
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Track all the usual demographic information for every person: birth date, marital status, race,
gender, family position, company, title, etc.
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Track additional demographics helpful for targeting and assessing
whether the church is hitting their target: educational level,
occupational industry, age group, seeker status, background prior to
membership, new resident in the area, baptism occurred at this church or another,
marketing method used to attract to the church, etc.
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Record each person’s involvement (and complete history of
involvement) in small groups, ministry teams, and class attendance.
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Keep record of every follow up letter sent to each person.
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Track unlimited prayer requests for each person.
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Track follow up requests made to the staff on welcome cards from
the previous Sunday. For example,
if someone requests a hospital visit, flowers, meals, answers to
questions, etc. these can be logged and automatically delivered to the
appropriate staff.
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Relational sharing of data common to the household – e.g., enter or
update home address, home phone and driving directions only once for every
member of the household. (However,
store an additional optional mailing address for each person.)
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Store an unlimited number of phone numbers (work, mobile, fax,
etc), email addresses and websites for every person.
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Store photos of individuals
and/or families and print photo directories.
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Send email or print envelopes for individuals by clicking a button
on their record.
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Copy a person’s name and mailing address to the clipboard for
pasting into another program.
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View people in a “Tree View” showing each person in their family
under their household name
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Send personalized letters using mail merge linked to MS Word.
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Track each person’s status as they move through your church's
disciple-development process
beginning with their first visit to the church through step 1, step 2,
etc., and then annually as they renew their membership.
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Encourage each person to keep growing using
automated email and form letters to congratulate them on their commitments
and invite them to the next level of commitment. (Sample letters and emails are
included with the program for easy customization.)
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Automation of annual renewals.
Member profile and covenant renewal forms are generated and mailed
to members.
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Tracking of every person’s history of small group involvement and
their position within each group (member, host, apprentice, leader, coach, etc.)
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Detailed management of small groups: location, meeting time, leadership structure (division
leaders, coaches, leaders.), maturity level (100, 200, 300, 400), gender
type (men’s group, women’s group), study curriculum, openness to new
members, etc.
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Detailed management of ministry teams: location, meeting time, leadership & team members, skill
requirements, etc.
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Set membership involvement goals for small groups and
ministries. For example, the
church goal is to have 80% of all members in a small group—compare it instantly
to the actual percentage.
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Send all follow up letters & emails and weekly reports--all at
the same time with one press of a button!
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Output ANY small group, ministry, event, class or mailing list to a:
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printed
report,
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mailing labels,
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envelopes,
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MS Excel spreadsheet,
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MS Word mail merge file,
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Outlook Contacts folder,
- PDF file,
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PhoneTree list or
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HTML
file.
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Track Total Weekend Attendance & Offering plus track an
unlimited number of attendance
figures for services/groups within each week – 1st Service, 2nd
Service, Saturday Night Service, High School Group, Nursery, etc.
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Track
Individual weekly attendance at weekly services, small groups,
ministry teams, classes or events.
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Contribution & Pledge tracking and analysis
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Automated data entry of frequently used Cities, States, Zip Codes,
and Area Code
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Advancement of grade schoolers to the next grade level each year
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Customized Church Information – insert church logo for automatic
inclusion on reports. Track
church address, phones, website, email, data entry person, etc.
This info is used throughout the program.
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Staff Birthday Reminder
– pop up reminder of upcoming staff birthdays
– helps build community among the staff by never forgetting a birthday!
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Follow Up Letter Reminder – For example, a pastor can flag a person to receive
a form letter. When his assistant
opens the database a hyperlink is displayed on the main menu that shows the
form letters that need to be sent. All
form letters are then generated at the click of a button.
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Staff
Follow Up Reminder - if there are outstanding follow up requests or people
interested in serving in a ministry that a staff person oversee, the staff
member will be reminded of these outstanding requests every time they log into
PDS
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Fully
Network enabled so that many concurrent users can view, enter and update
information.
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Replication
enabled so that many copies of the database can be used anytime, anywhere and
then synchronized with the other copies!
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PDS is secure and requires users to log in
with a username and password. (Permissions
can be set for each user for adding, deleting or changing data or working with
contribution & pledge data.)
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Export
people records to your Pocket PC or Palm Pilot! Just
export any list of people from PDS into Outlook and then sync
Outlook with your PDA.
View
Many Other Features
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