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.
Some users feel they can't even start using GHC because they have no confidence in the data.
We can show you very quickly how to do an initial cleanup to get you started if you don't have confidence in the data. Simply go to your checkup health dashboard and select "Data Quality" under setup.
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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 trackingTrends over time while looking at your membership base are a more accurate and impactful way to track health. GHC is built around monitoring the health of your membership (those who call your church home).
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Read this before proceeding with account transfer:
This method of defining the scope of permissions for dashboard sharing is the easiest and most flexible method. You will guided through the method to setup a group which will have a dedicated email address assigned to it. It's this email address you'll use to establish the share permission scope. It means you just need to put one email in all dashboards and modify the group to effect all permissions. The method is also integrated into myTeamGHC if you are a subscriber.
Create a new external access groupSubstep 1 of 5: Go to https://groups.google.com/
Ensure you’re logged in with
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GHC Notify is a utility that sends regular scheduled emails to your rostered volunteers so they can see any combination of the following:
Service Plan
Make sure your volunteers know how their ministry contributes to the service
Who's on (and confirmed)
Now your volunteers can see easily who else is involved the service and who is yet to confirm
Songs
Include links to song resources to equip musicians and service leaders
+ You can choose what content is sent, who gets it and when they get it!
And it's all
We've made a template for a "Integration Workshop" so you can use GHC to understand what is already happening and what you can improve.
The template is simple:
GHC helps you bring a clarity of narratives out for discussion. This will help you with team unity and the alignment of what is and should be happening.
We hope
One of the key design features of GHC is to help you grow and maintain your membership.. To help you do this with confidence let us explain how GHC manages membership with respect to new people.
1. Who are New People and MembersThe terms we use in GHC are defined to straddle various church management system (ChMS) setups.
The primary definition is this: Members = people categories defined by suffix "_" or with a colour ending in "_".
The second definition is this: New People = anyone added to the system in the last 12 months. This date range
This is reproduced from a podcast done with the Malphurs Group. You can view it and other great resources here.
We all want our churches to be healthy. We want them to bear fruit and be strong enough to hold out hope in a world that is seemingly turning against Christianity. But how healthy is your church? We all swap stories and look for evidence that the vision is being enacted… but is that good enough? In fact, that question: “is this good” is a curious question to ponder as we reflect on the flock of people that God
We are passionate to see ministry teams better unified, more accountable, continually growth-oriented and radically dependant on God.
How can real time metrics do all this?
This video is a zoom recording of the early release of the Toolkit to step you through the setup and functionality of the dashboards.
This video walks through the setup for outlined in the ministry teams page.
Metrics can be a powerful asset and yet there's plenty of pitfalls especially for churches. Mike Hastie interviews Peter Mayrick from Partners In Ministry exploring this topic.
In this video chat Mike speaks with Mikey Lynch from New Front Door The Church I.T. Guild about keeping the big picture in view when it comes to elvanto. New Front Door helps churches with their IT needs including setting up Elvanto well. If you'd like to know more about what they do or get some tips check out: