Did you know that you have a new program to help keep your church records current?

It’s called Me.Churchmembershiponline.com (or Me.Church…).

In the high tech Internet world it is referred to as “Individual Member Access”.

Once logged into Me.Church… individuals can securely view or edit their contact information, i.e. name, address, email, phone, and household contact information. Changes will instantly update their records in Church Membership Online. They can also view their contributions and print a giving report for taxes and personal records.

Me.Church… is designed to be a no load to load reducing feature.

Administrators will not have to create the individual login and passwords as the program will do it for you. A tutorial can be viewed on the link below.

Visit your new program at: https://me.churchmembershiponline.com

*me.churchofficeonline.com is a feature of Church Membership Online, a service program of Church Office Online and provided free to all subscribers.

We have updated Church Membership Online to include the following new features and enhancements.

• New User Role "Pastor No Contributions - Admin". This allows users to be created in the Pastor role that don't have access to Contribution or Admin information & features.
• New Individual Contributions Report & Household Contributions Report Category filter. These reports can now be filtered by a specific category.
• Enhancements to Contribution report sorting & layout.

I remember when my senior pastor said: “I’m not into numbers”. At first I understood it as a statement suggesting priority on spiritual growth over numerical. As a compliant and zealous youth pastor I took the statement and quickly put it into practice. No attendance was to be taken, no heads counted… no numbers, it was easy to apply. However, the problem came when the elders asked why my year end report contained no numbers but only general statements about growth. 
 
Biblically: “Numbers” does not have the negative connotation that my fellow pastor asserted.  If one looks into the Bible you will see a book named Numbers. My first read through it was like reading the parts list for a Boeing 747. It was hard for me to keep interested and awake. Later as an administrative pastor, one thing impressed me about Numbers was that they kept track of their people. They knew who, where and how many. The early church also kept track as recorded in Acts.  Even Jesus’ parable of the 99 sheep represented the value of each individual to him. Jesus makes it a point to know the “who, where and how many”.
 
Professionally: Accountability is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of attendance. When we know the “who, where and how many” we become accountable to those who are represented by those numbers.  If I take a van load of teens to Mexico on a short term mission trip and pay attention only to their growth experience and not notice that I went down with twenty and came back with nineteen; do you think the parents of the missing teen will not hold me accountable? As leaders we must be diligent to keep the attendance of those that God entrust to us.
Secondly, keeping track of the numbers should speak more to the leadership than the congregation. When I see an Individual not attending each Sunday, I don’t write a letter and ask “What’s  your problem?” instead  I ask, “What’s our expectation, is it Biblical and what are we doing ?” Other questions you can ask are: “Is their lack of attendance systematic  of: no follow-up, ministry done poorly or a misfit ministry.”
 
I am thankful to our LORD for allowing me the opportunity to help churches in the care and growth of their church through the service of ChurchOfficeOnline.com. When we began development of the Church Membership Online Program we began with the conviction that attendance was not just an added feature but central to the program. Numbers do count when you are feeding and caring for the flock. The best way to know the "who, what and where' is to take individual attendance, doing so can lead to a healthier church.
 
Pastor Mike Smith, CMO Ministry Support
Church Office Online

We released a new version of Church Membership Online that includes a feature requested by our customers. You can now specify a Contribution Category as Non-Deductible for tax purposes. All existing contributions categories will be left as tax deductible by default.

To view this change:

• Log into your Church Membership Online account
• Go to the Admin section
• Click on Contribution Categories
• Notice that you now have the option of setting new and existing categories as "Non-Deductible"
• This setting is reflected in the contribution related reports

We've release another version of Church Membership Online that includes some very exciting enhancements.

We have released a new version of Church Membership Online that includes a number of enhancements:

We have recently upgraded Church Membership Online invoicing to use a new payment system. We are no longer using PayPal as our payment system, so those of you that had problems with PayPal don't have to worry any longer! You can now pay for you Church Membership Online subscription via any major credit card as well as still paying via PayPal, but the subscriptions and payments will be handled by our awesome new system.

New Payment System Features:

- Payment by any Major Credit Card via a safe & secure web interface or over the phone
- Payment via PayPal still accepted
- Payment via Check for yearly subscriptions available

Contact sales@churchofficeonline.com if you would like to switch your account to the new payment system today! 

Thanks!

The Church Office Online Team 

The Church Office Online servers, which host Church Membership Online, have been upgraded to offer higher peformance for our users. We hope that you enjoy the increased performance. Please let us know if you run into any issues.

Thanks!

The Church Office Online Team 

A great new feature has been added to Church Membership Online: Absentee Tracking!

Absentee Tracking provides a flexible way for you to track individuals in your church that haven't attended any service(s) for any date range you specify. Absentee Tracking will enable you to keep better track of your flock and keep in touch with those that might have been absent for one reason or another.

Absentee Tracking features:

• Flexible date ranges
• Filtering by: Service; Member Type; Age Category; Gender 
• Exportable reports
• Mailing list generation

We hope that the new feature is beneficial to your ministries!

Aaron
Church Office Online

Church Membership Online has been updated to include the following new features & enhancements:

Absentee Tracking

A new features, Absentee Tracking, has been added to Church Membership Online. This feature will allow you to track individuals who have been absent from attending your services.

Email Generation

Email generation now produces a list of emails in addition to creating an auto-generated email in your default email client. This allows you to get access to the email list that is generated by Church Membership Online.

Custom Fields

Custom fields throughout Church Membership Online have been enhanced to provide better performance and to resolve a bug that caused errors in some accounts.

- Aaron
Church Office Online