The Ministries Explorer gives you a structured view of how your volunteers are organised across your church, so whether you're coordinating one congregation or many, you have the overview you need to make informed ministry

Introduction GHC Notify is an App for ChurchSuite which automatically sends scheduled email notifications about Service Plans and People with specific Tags.  It will notify people rostered for upcoming Services and report on ministry needs of people with a particular Tag (eg “Safe Ministry needs Refresh” or “Has been Absent”).  The timing of the notifications are configurable to weekly/monthly.quarterly optional columns of information can be included

Gather Credentials You’ll need to make sure you have the following before you continue: Admin access to Elvanto Your Elvanto API Key The google account login you used when signing up to GHC The ability to change category names in Elvanto Basic Configuration It is important that your Elvanto account is setup in a way that GHC is able to recognise. Follow

Gather Credentials You’ll need to make sure you have the following before you continue: Admin access to Planning Center The google account login you used when signing up to GHC The ability to change category names in Planning Center Basic Configuration It is important that your Planning Center account is setup in a way that GHC is able to recognise. Follow each step below

Gather Credentials You’ll need to make sure you have the following before you continue: Admin access to ChurchSuite The google account login you used when signing up to GHC The ability to change and add tags in ChurchSuite Basic Configuration It is important that your ChurchSuite account is setup in a way that GHC is able to recognise. Follow each step below to for

Our new reports take your trend data and creates a narrative of your church health. We use the well researched work of Unstuck - a church health organisation that describe various cycles of church health over a life cycle. Every church moves through various stages of a life cycle over time as described in the following picture. You can read a comprehensive guide to Unstuck's work on this here.

Basic Configuration It is important that your ChurchSuite account is setup in a way that GHC Trends is able to recognise. Ensure the following is in place. Members This is central to our church health design. GHC needs to be able to differentiate who is a member of your church and who is not yet (i.e. a newcomer). We think it best to simply answer the question: does this

GHC Basics GHC exists to help ministry leaders intuitive discern insights about the health and growth of their church. We do this by: helping leaders better use their church management system synthesising and displaying data in helpful ways shared network trends empower churches to collaborate on improving church health within their regions by exchanging insights and growth initiatives.

Introduction GHC Trends is a powerful tool that tracks health measures over time. This is different to the standard dashboards which takes a snapshot at any given time. This means trends can track how member and health measures move over time to give you deeper insight into the health and growth of your church. Members Added In the Last YearHealth Measure MovementTime PeriodFresh PeopleFresh MembersGroup FreshnessFresh Volunteers Members Added:

Tracking Professions of Faith We believe tracking professions of faith is a critical health measure. If all the angels rejoice in one sinner repenting then let's cherish every profession and focus on it as a key measure of health. Elvanto doesn't have a native field to track this so we'll guide you through how you can setup a simple custom field that GHC recognises. Create a custom field in Elvanto 

Improving your data and health insights by regularly using GHC The more you use GHC the better your church management system will match the reality of your church and the better insights you'll have to make better ministry decisions. The first time you use GHC... Some users feel they can't even start using GHC because they have no confidence in the data.

Going Deeper into Church Health: Membership No service attendance is not the best measure of health! When considering how healthy your congregation is, it can be tempting to focus on how many people are coming. However, while attendance is a measure of health, it’s one you can go mad over while looking at the ups and downs week to week.  Better health tracking