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Session 1 |
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Introduction to Pastoral Care |
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Why Use a software package to manage your church |
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Garbage In - Garbage Out |
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Best Practices for Pastoral Care Success in your church |
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Backup your database |
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Use ONE database if at all possible |
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Use the Family, any other method will confuse the heck out your team! |
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Security |
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Advantages to using security |
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Using security to manage your data safely |
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Configuration |
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Before doing anything, think, think, think |
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Configuration of Pastoral Care |
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How many databases? |
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Families |
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The Pastoral Care Family File |
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Understanding why we use a family |
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Individual Features |
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Family Wide Features |
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Rapid Data entry |
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Pastoral Notes |
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Photos, who needs them??? |
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Using photos to promote your church to newcomers |
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Groups |
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If you remember one thing about today, it should be groups |
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Don’t use the family editor to add participation data to people |
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Tagging and Group Management |
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Reports |
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Introduction to Reports |
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Report Output Control |
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The Report Toolbar |
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Process |
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Filters |
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Sort |
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Range |
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Hidden |
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Format |
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Suppress |
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Data |
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Title |
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| 12:00 PM |
1:00 PM |
Lunch |
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| 1:00 PM |
3:00 PM |
Session 2 |
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Reports |
(Continued from session 1) |
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Quick recap on the toolbar |
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Report Logic, How do they really work? |
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Predefined reports |
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Saving and Viewing Reports, ie keeping a "yearbook" |
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Custom Letters |
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Mail Merge made easy |
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Don’t use Microsoft word for mail merges, ours is smarter… |
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Really! |
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Powerful In Letter filters, includes "Lets write a letter together" |
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Formatting letters |
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Use Window Face, its more efficient |
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So you really want to use address labels? |
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Getting the Surname Field right! |
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Custom Report |
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Do you REALLY need to create your own report? |
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How are custom reports used in Pastoral Care? |
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A quick and dirty report, a tick list in 2 minutes |
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Creating a church directory |
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Page options |
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What is available to output to custom reports |
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Sub Reports |
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Database Desgin and Report Design principles, including data flow on paper |
