8 Reasons Why Your ChMS Isn’t Working
by Steve Caton,Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Church Community Builder
If your church management solution (ChMS) isn’t accelerating your ministry forward, then it is holding you back. There is no neutral position. When your ChMS isn’t aligned with your ministry processes, you are limited in your ability to stay connected between Sundays.
Having worked with many churches and leaders across the country, I’ve observed eight reasons a church’s ChMS isn’t working for them:
- Only a few people are allowed access to the system. The whole point of a ChMS should be to facilitate community and maintain connections. If the only time you access your ChMS is for a contribution statement or to verify your address, you’ve missed the point entirely.
- It isn’t valued by executive leadership. If senior leadership doesn’t encourage the staff and lay leaders to use the system, then you’ll have an uphill battle from the beginning.
- The primary concern is control and not impact. Your ChMS is much more than an address book and a way to track contributions. If that’s all you wanted, you could have saved a lot of money and put everything into a spreadsheet.
- Your ChMS is complicated, requires a lot of training, and not very intuitive. If your ChMS is difficult to navigate or impossible to figure out – for the everyday person – then you are sunk. Most people are going to give it one try before they make up their minds. The goal is to get as many people using it as possible. (more…)















