User Support Forum

We started using Power Church fairly recently at our church. Mostly we have gotten everyone entered in and started doing the "attendance tracking" stuff.

Now, we are undergoing a pastoral change. The previous pastor was the one who had a plan for what exactly he wanted to do with power church and although I have been the one utilizing the program, I never had a clear knowledge of exactly what his vision was.

The new pastor wants to know exactly what PC will do for the church. I am interested in finding out what various chruches are using this program for. We don't need to use the accounting section because all of our accounting is set up in a different program already that meshes with what our accountant prefers us to use.

Any help??

We use PowerChurch for:
Church directory
attendance (services, Sunday school, small groups, youth group)
keeping track of who's had certain training (ChildSafe, crisis, membership classes)
mailing lists (church newsletter, labels for church envelope boxes)
tuition billing for our school (in accts receivable)
keeping track of contributions (annual giving statements)
sheet music inventory (in music library)
church library inventory and borrowers (in education library)
Obviously, we don't use the full capability of the program, but it's a beginning. I'm finding new uses all the time.

I use powerchurch to keep track of basic information, print birthday lists, create church directories, keep track of groups, keep track of who I have visited and when, record contributions, print receipts and print a few other reports.

At the current church I attend, as well as the previous one, we use Powerchurch for ALL functions: Membership, attendence, contributions, accounting.

At the previous church, we actually moved from Quickbooks because of the ease in posting the contributions directly to the accounting module. The treasurer loves it, as there's no having to create transactions in QB from a list of funds that were contributed to.

IMHO ... the accountant should not be telling you how to run your church, its up to him/her to use what you have to do their audits.