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Facebook Friday: What’s Your ChCMS Status? [Interactive Poll]

Does your church use a ChCMS (Church Content Management System)?

(If you’re not sure exactly what a ChCMS is, here’s a good explanation.)

A ChCMS can really streamline many different areas of church management. Church staff, tithes and offerings, church attendance, child check-in and more! If you’re church doesn’t have one, it may be something you should really look into.

Before we jump into this week’s poll question, here are last week’s Facebook Friday poll results: How often is your church website updated?

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Elvanto Updates Child Check-In System

Elvanto is a volunteer management and church roster system that’s 100% web based.

It includes worship planning, volunteer scheduling and church finances. You can even customize it to fit the look of your church — logo, colors, custom fields and you can use it with your own domain name.

Their latest set of updates added some great features to the child check-in system:

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Church Community Builder – Major Update March 5th!

Church Community Builder is a web-based church management software solution. Whether you are a new church plant, a multi-site ministry or a mega church, Church Community Builder is a solid tool.

On March 5th, Church Community Builder is rolling out 50 fixes and improvements and best of all, a brand new Check-in interface that’s built with touch screen tablets in mind!

Here are a few other things you can look forward to:

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Don’t Forget The Mission

Do you know who this is?

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New Theme Data Display Function in WordPress 3.3

As with many new releases of WordPress, there are some new functions and features.

One new function feature in the 3.3 Sonny release of WordPress is:

get_theme_data()

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What does it mean?

This function makes it possible to return an array of information about any of your theme files loaded into your WordPress theme folder.

Here is how it would be used in your theme template:

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Bridge Element – Awesome Websites for Churches & Ministries

If you’re looking for a solid solution for your Church or ministry website, look no further. Bridge Element is a complete, all in one solution that specializes in Church and ministry web services.

Bridge Element exists to help Churches and ministries connect with their communities by providing the best website designs possible. All of our features are included with every design so you never have to worry about hidden fees.

Photo Galleries, Calendars, All-in-one Media Player, Podcasting, Unlimited Hosting and Email Accounts and our CMS, these are just a few of the great features you’ll find at Bridge Element!

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Successful Digital Giving

Creating online giving opportunities through Church websites and smartphone apps is a great way for members, regular attendees and visitors to give to your Church.

The trend is digital giving, and there’s no reason whey the Church needs to be left behind the curve.

Fellowship One has provided an excellent resource from experts inside Churches, as well as from the private sector, on how to incorporate the growing online trends and gain insight into the following topics:

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KidCheck – Online Childcare Check-In Solution

KidCheck is a child check-in system used by professional childcare providers, activity centers, gym/fitness centers and yes Churches!

Not to knock-on other child check-in solutions that are integrated into a ChMS, but KidCheck is built to do one thing and one thing only. You won’t find extra modules to add, here, just three editions and four pricing models of the same service: Secure child check-in.

Secure, easy to use, and my favorite aspect, affordable!

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Rock ChMS – A Free, Open Source ChMS [Preview]

I am excited to tell you about an up and coming Church Management System.

An association of unaffiliated software developers, the Spark Development Network, is establishing an organization to launch an open source ChMS and framework titled: Rock ChMS.

Here’s their mission:

  • Provide all Christian church and parachurch organizations an effective software solution for managing their daily membership operations.
  • Create and nurture a vibrant third-party community for the development of extensible functionality inside Rock ChMS.

There are plenty of ChMS solutions out there, and with the latest sweep of buy outs and mergers, Rock ChMS looks to be a breath of fresh air.

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LambsList – Secure, Web-Based Children’s Check-In

LambsList is a secure, web-based children’s check-in system, so you can use it on just about any computer with an Internet connection!

Lambslist uses a 256 bit encryption and is SSL Certified, so the data is safe.

It’s a basic system that includes:

  • Intuitive Interface
  • Fast Reporting
  • Label Printing

LambsList covers all the basics of children’s check-in and is a good stand alone solution, since it doesn’t integrate with other ChMS systems.

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