From the very beginning, we had a vision for creating an Internet tool that would intentionally help with spiritual growth and disciple-making. Growthfinder is a fully customizable discipleship assessment that staff, leaders and individuals can use to plan for personal, small group and corporate spiritual growth. Take the assessment every year to track spiritual growth. Use it as a leader to plan your curriculum for the next year. Use it as a pastor to plan sermon series and ministry initiatives. These videos will introduce you to the tool and show you how to set it up.

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PLAY SETUP VIDEO – Login to Administrator main menu, select customization features, then customize growthfinder.

A couple of years ago, we began trying out a system within Churchteams of tracking people who mention they are interested in joining a group from the initial communication of interest through multiple referrals and contacts until they have either joined a group or are no longer interested. The key to success is recruiting hosts for up to 50 people who’ve expressed this interest and using Churchteams to track all referrals and contacts with people in that journey to belong. Here are a couple of videos that show you how to setup the system and then train people to use it.

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Churchteams was built to be a useful add-on to any website. It doesn’t matter who sponsors or built your website, we provide for you the tools you need to just plug it in. This will help people see a regularly updated (by your leaders) list (and map if you want) of your small groups. This video will show you or your webmaster how to link Churchteams to your website step by step.

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The value of any software is only as good as the information put into it. This video will show you how to setup the email reminders for your leaders and coaches. This innovative system makes Churchteams what I call “smart software” because it makes the software active about collecting information rather than passively waiting around for people to remember to log in and post or update information. This is the distinguishing feature of Churchteams and gives us the ability to see 85-100% of leaders in our churches communicating after every group meeting!

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My son has a Mac, so I tried out the videos and all I got was jibberish. With a little research I found this free flip4mac player download that works perfectly. Just download it and it converts the format (media files) to use with Quicktime. You might find it helpful for other videos in the future as well.

This video will walk you through the process of uploading or refreshing data yourself. You need to request this feature be turned on though by emailing boyd@churchteams.com. Also, the first time you send data, you need to send it to mark@churchteams.com so he can look it over and give you any feedback that might be necessary, then you can do it yourself after that. The video is about 3-4 min long and will help a lot. If you want to delete everyone not in a group so that you can upload fresh info from your church database, go to browse members and click on delete members not in a group. Then upload your new data. Your groups won’t be affected at all and you will have refreshed your data.

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Okay, I am getting into the screen capture with voice over software we got recently. We will be importing them throughout the tool as “Video Tutorial”. The goal is short 3-5 minute how-tos where you can see what’s happening and hear the idea behind a feature. A great example is this logo and customize your look video. It is also available right by the style sheet (Customization features – Organization Options). It will show you exactly how to add your logo and customize your look.

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Okay, I’m clearly on a roll with this new software. For all of you who have signed up for the 30 day free trial or have an account, but are slow in getting going with it, check out this 4-5 minute video that will help you get set up. We’re including a link to it in all our response emails back when people sign up from now on.

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If your website refers to different types of small groups (ex. women’s, men’s, singles, on-site, different campus, etc.), you can create a link that will take you directly to that subset or category of groups.

Here’s how:

1. Copy this link and paste it somewhere else to edit it.

www.churchteams.com/Login.asp?oID=99999&sID=memberpassword&limit=Y&page=GroupBrowsenew.asp?filter=y~q1111=22222

2. First of all change the oID (99999 in link above) and the sID (memberpassword).

To do this, go to the Admin Main Menu, select customization features, then church website integration. You can find your unique oID and sID in example link 1. Replace those in the link you copied above.

3. Next, we’re going to identify the specific question and response (i.e. the Groupfinder filter option) that you want to link to directly.

To do this, go to the Admin main menu, then Customization features, then Customize Groupfinder, then profile questions. This is the Groupfinder profile template (the same page as Quick Setup, step 2). Find the response that you want the link to refer to, then right click on “edit response”. Click on properties and widen the window that pops up so you can see the whole link. It should look like this except with different numbers.

http://www.churchteams.com/EditResponse.asp?ResponseID=7335&QuestionID=1737

Now copy the QuestionID (1737 in this link) and paste it over the 1111 in the link you are creating. Do the same with the ResponseID (7335) and replace the 22222.

4. Now test the link to make sure it is what you want (copy it into your browser). If not, review these steps. If so, send the link to your webmaster with instructions on where to put it on your website.

Using links in this fashion throughout your church website will greatly enhance the use and effectiveness of Groupfinder.

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