Membership, attendance, follow-up and communications in one place — built for the way a Ghanaian church is actually organised, from the local assembly up to the headquarters.
Start your free trialA national church here is neither one congregation nor a flat list of branches. It is a headquarters over areas, over districts, over local assemblies, and every level has officers who answer upward and oversee downward.
ChurchConnect models that exactly, at whatever depth your church uses, and scopes each officer to their own branch: an area head sees their area, a district officer their district, a presiding elder their assembly, and the headquarters sees all of it. Leadership is recorded the way the church names it — councils, leaders, and the local presbytery of presiding elders, elders, deacons and deaconesses — taken from each member’s own church title rather than typed into a separate list that goes stale.
At the end of every quarter somebody at headquarters asks every district for its numbers, every district asks its assemblies, and the figures come back on paper, by WhatsApp, in a dozen spreadsheets that disagree with one another. The compiling takes longer than the counting.
When attendance is taken in the system each Sunday, the statistical return is already there. Membership by assembly, attendance over time, growth by district, every branch beside every other branch — previewed on screen, then printed, saved as PDF, or exported as CSV for whoever wants the numbers underneath. Nobody has to chase anybody.
Searching for a name works for forty people and collapses at four hundred. Every member carries a digital membership pass with a QR code on the phone they already have, and the door scans it with another phone. Members can also check themselves in from their own device, or be found by a short code when they have forgotten their phone.
The count rises live while the service is going on, and the breakdown leaders ask for — men, women, children, visitors — is there without anybody counting from the platform or writing a register up on Monday.
Announcements go by WhatsApp and SMS as well as email, from the same composer and the same audience: the whole church, one area, one assembly, a home cell, a ministry, or everyone with a birthday this month.
Attach the flyer for an upcoming convention and it travels with the email. Every recipient is then recorded individually — sent, delivered, bounced — so a church that emails four hundred members learns that sixty of those addresses are dead, instead of wondering why attendance did not match the announcement.
A visitor goes into a pipeline rather than a notebook: who invited them, what they were interested in, which officer is assigned, and every visit or call logged with what came of it. The assembly that loses new converts usually loses them to nobody being quite sure whose job it was.
Ghanaian churches do not stop at the border. A church with assemblies in London, Hamburg, Toronto or Milan runs them on the same system as the assemblies at home, with each one in the language it needs — English, German, French or Spanish, chosen per member rather than set once for everybody.
Where a country requires it, a national branch can have a deployment of its own: its own database, its own file storage, its own domain, in that region. European branches are hosted in the EU, which is what European data protection law expects of a membership roll.
A national church is invoiced centrally, per assembly rather than per member, annually or quarterly — so no local treasurer is asked to buy software and no assembly is asked for a card. Invoices are issued in US dollars. A single independent church can pay by card instead, and every plan begins with a 30-day free trial that asks for no card at all.
Sunday School keeps its own roster of classes, children and the teacher responsible, with children recorded against guardian contact details rather than their own. Ministries hold the people who serve and the schedule they serve on. A convention or crusade gets a public page you can send out, with invitations going through the same communications as everything else.
Create the church, import the membership spreadsheet the secretary already keeps, and take attendance the following Sunday. Bulk import recognises people who are already on file rather than duplicating them, so loading the same list twice does not double the assembly. It installs to a phone home screen straight from the browser with no app store involved, and nothing has to be downloaded again on every visit.
Yes — that is what it was built for. Headquarters, areas, districts and local assemblies at whatever depth your church uses, with every officer scoped to their own branch and headquarters seeing all of it.
No. Plans go by church size and a national church is billed per assembly, so every member and every leader who needs a login is included. Growing an assembly does not change the bill.
No. A national church is invoiced centrally to the office that pays, in US dollars, annually or quarterly. A single independent church can pay by card if it prefers.
Each member carries a digital membership pass with a QR code on their phone, scanned at the door by another phone. Members can also check themselves in, or be found by a short code. The count rises live during the service.
Yes — WhatsApp, SMS and email from the same composer and the same audience. Email carries a flyer image and a link; WhatsApp and SMS carry the message and the link.
Not in the standard product. Mobile money collection, tithes and offerings can be built as an add-on for a church on its own dedicated deployment, through the providers your church already works with. On a standard plan, churches keep the arrangement they have.
They run on the same system, each in the language it needs. Where a country requires data to stay inside it, that national branch can have its own deployment in that region — European branches are hosted in the EU.
Yes — bulk import takes the spreadsheet you already keep, and recognises people already on file rather than duplicating them. A few hundred members typically move in minutes.