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Church volunteer management softwareMy 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. |
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