For a growing church it is a necessity rather than a convenience to keep accurate records of relationships between the members and visitors. It will help the church grow organically.
Not having the ability to represent member relationships in the church management software hampers event planning, and regular counselling activities.
A friend of mine who is a member of a large church that I know of was talking to me about starting a new small group. He was tasked with finding out which members will be interested in joining the group.
He was able to extract the addresses from his church software and group members by zipcodes. But he wanted more than that. He wanted to find out which members are friends and which members are neighbors. Also, information like if those members have any relatives in nearby towns also would have helped him.
Disappointed with lack of features in his church software, he wanted to find out what other options he has. He wanted a software which can:
maintain membership records, group them by households, add relationships between members and guests, generate reports on-demand to see the relationship map.
We both came to know about ArkFishers and we attended a demo session. We were impressed by all the features it offers , more than what we were looking for. Below are some of the screenshots:
If your church is in need of a software to help you grow abundantly, check out the demo, you will not regret.