Jordan Bogart
Articles
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Introduction to Events
Events are the heart of the Scheduler module. They allow you to track the things going on in the church and make sure that rooms, inventory, and contacts do not overlap. An Event is defined as any ...
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Introduction to Scheduler
The Scheduler module allows you to maintain records of your church’s events and non-financial assets. Common tasks include adding events, checking out keys, loaning equipment, and maintaining inven...
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Person/Household Record Defaults
To save time when you're entering new people and households in Shepherd's Staff, you might choose to have some fields filled out automatically with information that is common enough to your church ...
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Report Conventions
One of the most popular features of Shepherd’s Staff is the large collection of pre-made reports. There are several similar features you will find in the majority of Shepherd’s Staff reports. One s...
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Introduction to Church Register
The Church Register allows the church to record significant events and keep them permanently. Churches usually have a “Big Book” that these events are recorded in and this is a way to record the ev...
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Adding to a Family
When a new person joins a family through an event like birth or adoption, there are a few different spots in Shepherd’s Staff that need to be addressed. Add the person (Refer to the “Add a Person”...
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Households and People
The Membership Module is based around two different types of records: Households and People. It is important to understand the differences between them and how they relate to each other. » A Househ...
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Introduction to Membership Module
The Membership module allows you to store a variety of information about the members of your church. Common tasks include adding households and members, editing contact and demographic information,...
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Update Enrollee Lists
Enrollees are a feature of each event you create in Shepherd's Staff, and can be helpful when you are recording attendance batches, as they are those who attend that event most frequently. By havin...
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Clean-Up Utility
At the year-end, you may find yourself wanting to get rid of older data in your Attendance module. If this is the case, you can run the clean-up utility in the attendance module to get rid of data ...