My name is Katherine Gealy Wendt and
I wrote Members To Action (and yes, those three photos in
the sample records are me, husband Jim, and baby Alexander).
I was a lawyer until I realized I would never have the right
personality for it (not everyone wants to be in fights every
day!). I discovered a talent for databases and opened a
company called DataWiz Solutions which made custom databases
for companies. Our church had a strong lay ministry
program and I became friends with the Director of Lay
Ministry. Over long lunches she would complain about the
huge amount of data she was accumulating and how the church
volunteer management software system then in place was next
to useless. Servant leadership reports would
take hours to run and the system was so difficult to use
that she would have to ask the local computer guru to run
the reports for her. It was so bad that just once a year she
would run a big servant leadership report listing folks'
interests, then put it in a notebook to refer to. We began to dream what a perfect
servant leadership database would look like. I began to
create the system, at first just for our own use. Can you
imagine the excitement when we first ran a servant
leadership report showing the names of folks in the
congregation who had not volunteered within the last
year? One thing led to another: first I
joined the lay ministry committee, then I was asked to be
the elder to lay ministry. Then somebody pointed out that
other churches needed this lay ministry software. This was
work for the Kingdom of God. So I slowly started turning down new
clients for custom database design so I could spend more
time getting the lay ministry database ready for use by
folks other than me. And thus Members To Action was
born. . DataWiz Solutions Copyright DataWiz
Solutions 2008. All rights reserved.
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email us at
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