Behind the Scenes at Granger Community Church

For several months leading up to the grand opening of our expanded auditorium, my staff and volunteer team has been working behind the scenes to implement and enhance several systems in preparation for future ministry growth. Our administrative services team, which includes finance, communications, facilities, and technology, worked diligently and in cooperation with almost every other ministry team in the church. While continuing to handle regular, day-to-day responsibilities, the team focused on these specific projects:

• implementing an automated children’s check-in system
• implementing a centralized contact management system
• developing a new logo
• implementing a new system for online event registrations which will also be used at our on-site guest services locations
• implementing an online group finder
• refocusing our overall communications strategy
• implementing a system for online ministry connections
• implementing a new contributions processing system
• developing a reformatted weekend program
• redesigning and developing the new GCCwired.com
• redesigning and developing the new WiredChurches.com which included the new ecommerce solution
• redesigning our weekly enewsletters and transitioning to a new email distribution solution
• restructuring teams in a couple of key ministry areas
• streamlining the promotions process for ministry teams
• developing new systems for facility care to accommodate all the new space
• designing and implementing tech improvements for our new facility space

I thought you might be interested in seeing what happens behind the scenes in my ministry area. Some of it has become visible. Some of it will hopefully remain invisible to most people. That’s when we know systems are really working–when they make life easier for people serving in ministry and being served by ministry. It’s perfect when the systems are so good they’re almost not noticed.

In addition to letting you know what’s been happening in the background at Granger, I also just wanted to use this opportunity to give props to my team. You’re incredible! And you’ll always be the coolest of the cool cats!