Tired of always searching for phone numbers?

Imagine if ...

• church leaders and staff could look up phone numbers of members any time they wanted without having to bother the church secretary
• the spiritual journey for every member was mentored well through systematic discipleship
• you could print mailing labels with two clicks of a mouse
• each ministry had easy-to-use tools to manage their own mini-website
• members could login to a password-protected area of your church website to download their tax-deductible giving statements
• volunteers could do data entry work from home which staff can monitor from the office
• you could update web pages yourself without waiting for the webmaster to do it

Now imagine doing it ...

• all online with a web browser
• with easy-to-use tools all in one place
• for just about $4 a day¹

You can make this happen ... with Ascribe.

1. Effectively Disciple Every Member

Ascribe delivers powerful tools to manage information about church members and track discipleship.

Manage people's information such as names, contact information, family relationships, birthdays, church membership status and wedding anniversary.

Search for people from conveniently placed search forms. Use advanced search to pull up a certain group of people and generate printable call lists with their contact information.

Print mailing labels and mail merged letters simply by selecting people and letting Ascribe generate a PDF report, printable from your browser.

Cover your people with prayer by tracking their prayer requests and generating weekly reports to be emailed to the prayer team.

Oversee each person's spiritual growth by setting up a program of discipleship goals customized for your church and tracked individually over time for each person.

View a person's involvement in ministry groups and care groups at a glance.

Maintain contact history for each person which can only be viewed by pastoral staff or lay leaders.

Send emails to entire church membership to foster community and give pastoral care. Emails can be personalized with the recipients name and include full HTML formatting, complete with graphics.

2. Equip Ministries to Succeed

Equip the leaders of each ministry group and care group with the tools they need to succeed.

A complete member management system is provided for each ministry to maintain a contact database of members. Group leaders can print out contact lists of all members, generate mailing labels and mail merged letters.

An email module is available for each group to send email to group members. Emails can be targeted to related groups (e.g., send email to all small group leaders within a certain region of the city).

Publish an online small group leader training manual within Ascribe for use by your small group leaders.

Set discipleship goals for training purposes specific to each ministry.

Allow each group to build community via a mini-website complete with unlimited web pages, events calendar, announcements, blogs, news articles, "visit us" contact form and photo gallery.

3. Steward Financial Contributions

Streamline church contribution counting using Ascribe and save time. Enter contributions quickly. Print "deposit summary" and "fund income report" for the church accountant and you're done.

It takes just 4 simple steps to enter each contribution:

1. type first few letters of a person's name
2. use mouse to select name of person in search results
3. fill in check number for contribution (amount auto-prefilled based on the person's previous contribution)
4. hit the Enter key to save and the form reloads, ready for the next contribution

Other financial module features:

• bookkeeper privilege given only to those users working directly with contributions
• finance privilege given to pastoral staff who need to see financial reports but not exactly who gave how much
• create different funds to which you can allocate monies when entering contributions
• export fund income information to QuickBooks
• easily print giving summaries for the whole church
• let members download their own statements of tax-deductible contributions from the members area of the website
• graph income by a particular service (e.g., show monies received at the Sunday 10am service over time)

Is it safe to track financial giving online?

4. Preach the Gospel on the Web

Use your imagination to publish online tracts, web pages which share testimonies, sermon summaries, even Bible commentaries, if you want.

Manage unlimited web pages with Ascribe's web content management system.

Auto generate menus in your website based on the the way you organize pages within Ascribe.

Edit web page content with Ascribe's simple-to-use web page editor. No external software required.

Publish database driven pages:

• events calendars
• announcements
• news feeds
• frequently asked questions (knowledgebase)
• photo gallery

Customize the look and feel of your website with HTML templates, colors, fonts, CSS text styles and graphics.

This website is powered by the Ascribe web content management system.

5. And More ...

Ascribe also offers a number of other valuable features.

Share files securely among staff and leaders. Organize files in folders and specify granular permissions for each folder.

Customize any text label within Ascribe to make it fit your organization. For example, easily change “care group” to “life group”.

Rebrand Ascribe with your church logos and colors.

Import people from any spreadsheet program into Ascribe.