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Four Questions to Ask Yourself Now to Make Your Easter Services Better than Ever

You want your Easter services to be the best experience possible for your entire church community—your regular attendees, families who make a special effort to attend Easter services, guests who are visiting your church for the first time, and your ministry staff, front-office team, and loyal volunteers. Sounds like a tall order, doesn’t it? But […]

How to Re-Engage Guests After They’ve Left the Building

Easter is one of the most popular times for your members to invite friends and family to your services. What does that experience look like on their first visit? Afterwards, how is the church connecting with those guests once they have left the building and how are you setting your members up to invite those […]

8 Easter Sunday Planning Tips for Churches

Easter is a great opportunity to invite people to church. And it’s not just about numbers. The more people who attend your worship service, the more who will hear the message of the gospel clearly communicated through the resurrection story. A complete church management system (ChMS) can help smooth out the kinks of Easter Sunday […]

Achieving “Next Level” Status with Your Church Website to Kick Off the New Year

Dan Star, Client Consultant – Web/Mobile, Shelby Systems It’s the start of a new year and the front door of your church is a URL, not a brick and mortar building filled with people. Members and new visitors alike are seeing your church through a digital screen. What are they seeing or rather, what are they not seeing when […]

Shelby Online Financials and ChMS Courses on Your Schedule

About two years ago, Shelby began offering online courses, first in Financials and last year we added Non-Financials. These have been well received, but we were somewhat limited by the platform offered by our Learning Management System used to host the MPower University. This year, we have a new look in a whole new Learning Management System […]

3 Accounting Benefits of Complete Church Management

Do you want to increase the productivity and organization of your church? Or simplify the operational aspects to free up more time for ministry? A complete church management system is designed to assist churches with structuring and managing all aspects of daily operations. Everything works together—member and donation management, church accounting, websites, and communication. This means fewer logins and passwords to remember, […]

How to Close the Back Door in the New Year with Interactions

Are you interacting with your members? We hope so. Did you know you can use your Shelby Systems database to track your connections and interactions with those in your faith community? Using Interactions to Close the Backdoor Too often, individuals in our churches feel disconnected or that no one cares. That is the opposite of […]

Year-End Giving and Reporting

The spirit of generosity is usually at its highest as the year comes to a close. Nearly 1/3 of annual giving occurs in December, with 13% of giving happening in the last three days of the year. With giving in the hearts of most people, it’s an opportune time to establish your year-end giving campaign. […]

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