:: Introduction to Enlightenment(For further information please download our taster presentation here.)
Introduction to Enlightenment: (return to top of page)At Theological college were you trained to compile the coffee rota? Or to recruit people for Sunday School? Yet these and similar tasks can so easily disrupt your day.
The truth is that teachers should be wrestling with doctrine, not the photocopier. A pastor needs time to counsel rather than worrying about the finances. An evangelist needs to bring good news of burdens lifted, not be burdened by unwieldy systems!
At Amethyst Computing we see relationships as key to church. Yet so often these are undermined by poor communication, inaccurate information and overworked staff. In order to build the church we need to focus on our call.‘Enlightenment’ frees you to do just that.
As participants in church and committed to church, we have created ‘Enlightenment’ to help you and your church fulfil your call.
Functionality: (return to top of page)Membership and Groups :
- Identify enquirers, visitors, members and communicate with them appropriately
- List those who are in a specific house group or who are not in any.
- Highlight those in a particular Sunday School class and find out what happens when they all move up at the end of the year.
- Invite those who came to the guest service but who haven't signed up for Alpha.
- Identify people's interests and respond appropriately.
- Communicate effectively with groups; finance team, elders, deacons, PCC, ensure nobody gets missed.
Finances:
- Record all income by source & type.
- Track gift-aid, monitor income and expenditure by area, department or overall.
- Produce forecasts, manage cash-flow.
- Provide departments with their own lite version of ‘Enlightenment' then merge their data to provide organisation-wide reports.
- Use provided templates to produce budgets for departments or events; Sunday School, Youth Group, Alpha, Marriage Course etc.
Events :
- Planner, diary & to-do list management
- Ensure events don't clash and that people and rooms are available.
- Built in templates make event planning simple.
- Drag and drop events onto the planner to book.
- Once an event is booked use event management to: automatically books resources / Invite speakers & confirm arrangements / send invitations & follow up letters / build teams & assign tasks / track progress
- Create new event types.
Administration:
- Diary & to-do list management.
- Templates to help you customise and produce: Weekly bulletins (automatically include address changes, teaching programme, special events, team availability) / Prayer chain / Membership book / Corporate Calendar
- Visitation programme (can suggest sequence based on calendar / postcode etc)
- Produce rotas based on selected criteria (for example, a coffee rota of people over 18 who don't teach Sunday School.
- Correspondence tracking.
- Resource booking & tracking.