Kingdom Tools Benefits for your Ministry Leaders

Kingdom Tools offers you cost-effective benefits that each of your ministry leaders can utilize and customize for their specific needs, giving you clear advantages over traditional church-management options.

Features allow you to easily and powerfully manage your Church's:
Web Presence
People, Groups and Families
Schedules
Contributions
Resources (file system)
Newsletters and Event Regristration
Attendance
Reports, Queries, and Lables

Communicate:
Communicate with Event Awareness
Commnicate with Reminders to your Teams
Communicate with Your Communities
Communicate Through Resource Sharing
Communicate Through your Web Presence

Promote and Grow:
Promote and Grow with Web Presence Functionality
Promote and Grow with Follow-ups with Visitors
Promote and Grow with Peresonalized Invitation to Events
Promote and Grow with Hilighted Events
Promote and Grow by Search Engine Promotions

• Leaders login from anywhere and easily update the content on just their specific area of the website or, depending on their level of access, update content throughout the whole website. No HTML or coding knowledge required!
• We customize the look of your template for you, or work with your current design, if you prefer
• You can enjoy many options for laying out your site's content: 50 (and counting) different content blocks allow you to display your text and pictures in various attractive ways
• Content block options also include a calendar of events on your page (automatically driven by your internal schedule manager), FAQ's, mini-calendars, displaying flash movies, contact information layout, and more
• When scheduling an event in your Kingdom Tools schedule manager, indicate if the event is to be highlighted throughout your website; if so, the website will promote the upcoming event for you, and automatically remove the event from the website once the date has passed
  
  

• Designated users securely login from anywhere to update member information to your church's central member database
• Include individual pictures and family pictures
• You can allow users to view all member information, or block them from confidential information; you can even just give them access to contact information only, or prevent certain users from accessing this feature (People Manager) altogether
• Customize over 250 fields! Track spiritual journey, leadership training, visitor assimilation--whatever is relevant to your church
• Create groups! A Children's Ministry Leader, for instance, can login and create groups of individuals within their ministry (ie toddlers, teachers, helpers, etc.) for better organization of your database, large or small.
  
  

• Login to access your schedule manager on your Kingdom Tools intranet! Collaborate meetings with the rest of your pastoral staff, leaders, and volunteers
• Schedule church-wide events, so that all users can view events on their internal calendars; schedule ministry-specific events, so that all users within a ministry only view the event on their calendars; or, schedule personal events, so only your calendar displays the upcoming event
• Easily indicate whether an event should be displayed on website's calendar, as well as highlighted throughout the website (once the date passes, event highlights are automatically dropped from website for you)
• Schedule participants for upcoming events; if you'd like, KT will automatically remind participants of their upcoming commitments
• Enjoy the ability to view your calendar of events -- whether personal or churchwide-- from anywhere!
  
  

• Grant users full access to Contributions, read-only access to Contributions, or no access to Contributions
• Designated users login and enter contribution information, keep track of contributions made, securely and from anywhere and at anytime
• Create your own fields for Chart of Accounts, Tender, Campaigns, Pledges, etc.
• Split checks and contributions between different accounts and pledges
• Create pledges, campaigns, set goals! Your Contribution Module tracks it all
• Run and save custom reports on contributions, giving, pledges and more
  
  

• Login to your Kingdom Tools intranet (or "back-end") resources area to upload sermon notes, meeting minutes, etc.
• Ministry leaders enjoy their own ministry's resources area; a Worship Leader, for instance, can upload that week's songsheets or MP3's, then allow designated team members to login and access materials so they can be better prepared for worship practice
• Organize your files and documents through your intuitive and easy-to-use directory
• Store your files in one secure area you can access from anywhere-- church, home, even overseas
• Enjoy one central place to store files and images that can be used at your convenience for the website, online newsletters, people area, etc.
  
  

• Create custom newsletters that you can distribute to your whole database, or to specific groups or individuals inside of your database
• Enjoy this great tool for promoting upcoming events; include an RSVP link to allow recipients to register online for an event
• Easily create optional follow-up pieces that will be automatically sent to recipients who have not RSVP'd by a certain date, and another follow-up that is automatically sent to those who have not registered yet
• Include a "Send to a Friend" link; recipients easily forward mailpiece to others using this link, and mailpiece is automatically personalized for their friend
• Their friend's contact information is automatically added to a specific group in your database
• Great for keeping visitors and church community aware and connected.
  
  

• Grant ministry leaders the ability to view and/or record attendance for events
• View your whole database when logging attendance, or narrow it down to groups you've already created
• Run and save custom reports on attendance to events
  
  

• Grant ministries full access to Reports or no access to Reports
• Designated users login and run reports securely and from anywhere and at anytime
• Run reports including up to 250 custom fields you may have created in the People Manager
• Use filters to narrow down your criteria; for instance, run a directory that includes only males ages 18 and up for an upcoming Men's Retreat
• Run reports that are ministry-specific, or narrow it down even further to report just on a group
• Indicate if you want your report to output as an HTML page or a tab-delimited file (to easily import into Excel, for instance)
• Save reports for re-use over and over
  
  

• No more conflicting meetings! Collaborate as a team using one church-wide calendar, or several ministry specific calendars
• Easily indicate whether an event should be scheduled for a specific ministry, the church as a whole, or both
• Set up an internal calendar for your staff to access from ANYWHERE!

• Easily schedule individuals or groups of individuals for upcoming events
• KT automatically notifies scheduled workers of their upcoming commitments

• Easily distribute bulletins, newsletters, and invitations to everyone in your database
• Keep everyone in the loop regarding what's going on-- even if they weren't there Sunday morning
• Get an accurate count of who is coming to events by allowing recipients to RSVP for events
• Automatically follow-up with recipients who have received mailpieces but not responded

• Give each of your Ministry leaders the ability to easily update their ministry's section (and just that section) on the website
• They can post pictures, highlight upcoming events, and communicate with people inside and outside of their church regarding what their ministry is up to

• Post prayer requests, blogs, acclamations, thoughts, and more on your ministry's Resource Manager
• Leaders can upload their ministry's current curriculum, teachings, a list of needs that ministry members can access
• A Worship Leader, for instance, can provide that week's songsheets and MP3's for team members to access and be better prepared for Sunday Worship
• Offer meeting minutes, provide upcoming agendas for your staff
• Share the news by tieing into your newsletters!

• Quickly and easily update the church's website (no HTML needed) to keep people up to date and able to participate with your events in the Church
• Turn your site into a true resource for your church members, visitors, and your community
• Your staff and ministry leaders can login and easily update only their assigned sections on the website to promote and highlight what's going on
  
  

• Create electronic or print mailpieces welcoming visitors or inviting them to a newcomer event
• Kingdom Tools will customize each piece for you and send the mailpiece (and up to two concurrent pieces) for you
• Keep visitors in the loop by including them in future mailpieces about upcoming events or prayer requests
• Allow small group leaders and other designated leaders to enter visitor information into your database by logging in from home
• Visitors to small groups, youth group, other church functions easily become part of your whole church's database

• Exponentially grow your reach to your community through mailout managers unique information capturing capabilities
• Create custom invitations with graphics
• Select the groups and individuals in your database that you wish the invitations be sent to
• Opt to include a "Click here to RSVP" link in order to allow recepients to register online for events
• Opt to have Kingdom Tools automatically follow-up with people who have and/or have not registered for the event by a certain date
• Whether your invitation is sent to a list of three or a list of thousands, Kingdom Tools will automatically personalize each invitation with the recepient's name

• When scheduling events inside of your Kingdom Tools Schedule Manager, indicate whether an event should apply to just your personal calendar, or also that of everyone inside of your ministry-- even if the event applies to everyone at church. Event will then drop into the corresponding internal calendar(s)
• Indicate whether an event should be made public on the website calendar
• If the event warrants special mention throughout the website, simply check off "make this event a highlighted event". The website will then automatically promote the event for you (including graphics) and then drop mention of the event once the date has passed

• Your website, developed with the appropriate code and tags, is regularly submitted to search engines so that people searching for a church in your area can find you
• Keep an eye on your website's traffic through our handy statistical tool updated daily

• You get a custom website designed by a Company that has been designing website for years included in the setup price.
• You and even your ministry leaders, if desired, gain the ability to maintain your website areas through tools that are easy to use and require NO html expertise or experience.
• The whole system is easy to use even for those technically challenged.
• Unlimited training, technical support, hosting, unlimited email, and product maintenance is included in the monthly costs.
• You can easily create your own data structure in Kingdom Tools. The information you want to track, the layout for the information you desire, etc.
• Hosting and unlimited email are included in the pricing (This includes spam filter and antivirus).
• All updates and additions in the future are included in the monthly cost.
• You can equip all of your team without licensing fees. In conventional solutions each person requires another license / fee.
• You can access your Church database from anywhere as long as you have your secure login information.
• The security system allows you lock people out of sensitive areas while allowing your staff and privileged teams access to administrative, sensitive data.
• Each of your ministries gain their own set of tools equipping them to be more effective and efficient.
• With the Kingdom Tools suite when you purchase the service you get everything Kingdom Tools offers, even future additions, at no additional cost.
• With Kingdom Tools your database is backed up daily on maintained servers.
• Kingdom Tools clients receive technicians and management contact info and mobile phone number in case an emergency should arise.
• Data import from your current application is included in the cost.
• Easy to understand and create customized reports, directories, lables, queries, etc.
• Powerful and easy mass mail program for each ministry that allows you to quickly create and distribute extremely professional pieces.
• Ability to create RSVP's for events and tie in pay online functionality
• Mass email with powerful "send to a friend" capabilities and tie in of RSVP.
• Each ministry has the ability of having their own internal calendar for their team as well as the ability to tie their events into the public website.
• With Kingdom Tools infrastructure issues can be resolved much quicker than conventional systems like ACS. If you were to find a bug in ACS you would have to wait for a patch, a new version, or a new CD to install on your local computer. With Kingdom Tools a client tells us an issue, we fix it within 3 days, and the issue is fixed for ALL Kingdom Tools clients.