If you read any Church publication, you’re likely to find that it is dominated with terms such as outreach programs, fundraising and worship without much emphasis on church accounting issues.
By the way, have you ever thought of a as church system? Yes indeed! The church can be thought of as a system, it takes in inputs in form of offering, donations, member contributions and processes these inputs into outputs such as community service, outreach programs and various other church programs.
Therefore, if the church is a system, there is equally need to monitor the activities within the church system. For example the church must set targets, measure the output, compare with what was expected to happen and demonstrate the performance of the church easily in order to strengthen the church position when meeting donors and church partners.
Interestingly enough, while Accounting is considered a universal language both for profit and nonprofit organizations, little effort is made by the church to leverage the power accounting systems, which undeniably influence the future of the church.
It is practically difficult to gain a depth of knowledge, track church resources and foster communication among church members without a proper church management system. The bible in Ephesians 5 vs16 reminds all Christians that time is a precious gift from God and should not be squandered. Granted, church accounting software solutions can save time, help monitor church spending more closely and can help to communicate information to relevant church partners rapidly.
Yes, that is why, as a devout Christian and a “technology addict” I chose to put together this list of the available church software in no any order.
Servant Keeper A powerful yet easy to learn and flexible church management program used by many churches to simplify ministry work.
We gather is free, secure and advertising free software designed for churches and faith based organizations. This software is free as long as you your church is below 100 online users.
Church Tax is another free easy-to-use and flexible. This software can be downloaded and used for free by your church.
Fellowship one Web based software designed to help dynamic churches of any size or denomination become more effective-This software provides a unique single view of the family including individuals, their involvement in church activities and their needs.
Arena is browser-based software for faith based organization designed by Shelby systems for medium to large churches.
Reg online This is easy online management and event planning software to register church members for retreats, conferences, mission trips or any type of event.
Power Church online An online version of power church software for church contributions and event management
Five Talent Church Software is another web based church management and outreach program. A fully featured 45 day free trial is offered upon signing up and you can be able to management family profiles, contributions, events and mass mailing
Power Church this is a 2009 Campbell user satisfaction award winning church software. This software is designed to help churches organize membership contributions and accounting for church events.
Logos II Church Donor This is a data management tool, fully featured fund accounting system and community software with features like online giving and visitor information.
Church help mate another powerful church management system by help mate technology solutions. The software is designed to help save money and time, build unity, make better disciples and increase ministry participation.
Roll Call for easy management of church membership, attendance, donations, pledges as well as group activities.
Green Tree Church Software This is a user friendly; network ready church membership and accounting software by Green tree Applied Systems. Their trial version is free for 120 days.
Ichurch is a suit of three internet-enabled programs to help you gain greater insight into the health of your church through various reports.
Cahaba works is developed by a Christian-owned software development company. This is a complete church management solution.
Faithful Steward church management software is also designed for churches and nonprofit organizations to manage membership and donation records with ease.
Seeker Works is another ministry management software solution for tracking members, attendees, assimilating visitors, supporting volunteers and much more.
Church Growth Software a purpose driven church management software to help pastors and church leaders manage membership, visitors, follow-up, attendance, ministries, events, finances, child check in or pick volunteers.
RDS Advantage RDS Advantage© provides easy to use church management software for your active church. Just as good workmen desire quality tools, RDS Advantage can provide your ministries with state-of-the-art applications for every part of church management.
I really appreciate your feedback, If you think another church management software deserves to be on this list, please let me know using the comment box below. I will definitely add it to this list.
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Thanks for sharing, I do appreciate your point of view by the way I am a pastor at convent church MD. Our church is looking for web based church management software . So we can be in touch in our people anywhere, anytime. I got to know about two companies which are the best, ACS Technologies & Congregation Builder. Both are good at services but Congregation builder is cheaper than ACS tech. So any feedback about them is greatly appreciated.
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