ICT AS A VISITATION AND MANAGEMENT TOOL FOR THE CHURCH

The church as the coming together of all believers from all works of life lives in different places outside the church. The work of the pastor does not end on pulpit but it spread to the home of the church members. The pastor needs to keep up to date database of the church members. The records of visitors, transfer, birth, date etc should be kept. This will help the pastor to monitor the growth of the church and track the record of attendance of membership.

Database: 

A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purpose in a digital form.
Visitation to Church Member
On the church database you keep record of church members, keep track about their life development (e.g. wedding) keep record of their residence, and keep information of their last contact. The details of each church member can easily be traced out as their records have been kept beforehand.

Advantages:
- It will help the pastor to visit members and assign the deacons to pay some members visit as time may require.
- It will provide the pastor with information about each family and their locations.
- It can help the church to keep record of adequate family tree
- It makes the church to be appropriate custodian of history.

MANAGEMENT TOOL

Preparing church financial record using Microsoft excel. Microsoft Office’s spreadsheet application can be used to track and analyze numerical data for display on screen or in printed format. Excel is designed to help you record and calculate data, and present it in a clear and attractive manner. Excel provides you with various chart and layout options to enhance your spreadsheets.

It is of great importance that a church keep adequate record of its resources, this can help us monitor and prevent wastage as well as assimilate income against expenditure over a given period of time. 

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