Best Church Management System, Singapore
Sojourner is a comprehensive church management system that simplifies complex ministry and day-to-day operations. Designed to meet the unique needs of churches, it streamlines tasks and provides tools for effective management.
Sojourner is the ideal solution for churches looking for a comprehensive and robust system to manage their operations with ease.
Introducing Sojourner, the ultimate church management platform that streamlines complex ministry and day-to-day operations. It's a robust and secure solution, serving as a centralized repository of church membership and activity data—a true 'corporate memory'—enabling smooth, effective, and efficient management.
With Sojourner, you can seamlessly consolidate all member, visitor, and event details in one place, granting you instant access to the information necessary for informed decision-making. Say farewell to the challenges of organizing individuals into extended families or complicated ministry hierarchies, managing resources, or overseeing events. Sojourner's integrated suite of features empowers church leaders with attendance statistics, booking details, learning history, visitor status, and much more, providing valuable insights on your church community.
Sojourner is designed with your convenience in mind, offering self-service options for members to perform most activities. Whether you're on your PC, tablet, smartphone or accessing via a customised kiosk, Sojourner is accessible anytime, anywhere, on any platform.
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Enhance your church's digital engagement with Sojourner, now integrated with cutting-edge generative AI capabilities. Our multilingual translation feature, powered by advanced AI, bridges language barriers, enabling inclusive and diverse communication within your congregation. Effortlessly create and translate content, sermons, and communications to resonate with members in their native language.
Sojourner streamlines your virtual meetings by seamlessly integrating with the Zoom video conferencing platform. With all course or event management functions conveniently housed within Sojourner, scheduling events and managing participants becomes a breeze. Sojourner automates the process of sending Zoom invitations on behalf of the administrator, and at the conclusion of each meeting, attendance is automatically recorded without the need for manual intervention. In addition, Sojourner provides you with the flexibility to use different Zoom accounts for different courses or events to ensure adaptability for your online gatherings.
Sojourner seamlessly integrates with SingPass Login and MyInfo, offering a streamlined login experience with just one click. Users can easily authenticate their accounts via SingPass and synchronise their personal data via MyInfo. With this feature, users can save time and effort while enjoying a secure and convenient login process.
The Members' Welfare module is a vital component designed to enable you to provide timely and compassionate support to your congregation during significant life events. With this module, you can effectively oversee and facilitate the distribution of gifts and assistance to members facing hospitalization, bereavement, or celebrating the arrival of a new family member. It empowers the church to extend love and support to its members during their moments of need, strengthening the bonds of our caring and close-knit community.
Empowers ministries and event administrators to specify the type and number of volunteers needed for each role within their ministry. Volunteer role descriptions can include associated skills or interests, enabling members to sign up for opportunities that align with their strengths and interests. Administrators and ministry leaders can then oversee a multi-stage process, including interviewing, inducting, onboarding, and eventual stepping down of volunteers, ensuring a well-structured and comprehensive approach to volunteer management.
With our kiosk management solution, you have the flexibility to repurpose each physical kiosk for various events at different times while retaining its default function as an attendance-taking kiosk for weekly children's ministry, youth ministry, or any regular activities. Depending on your custom time schedule, the kiosk can serve any web page, whether informational or interactive, including third-party applications. This enables versatile use that aligns with your specific needs and events, enhancing the utility of your kiosk.
Discover the ease and convenience of our Facility Booking module for seamless booking experiences. Our intuitive calendar interface simplifies the process for members, allowing them to make tentative bookings effortlessly. The module provides robust support for recurrent bookings and allows administrators to force bookings when needed, offering the flexibility you require. Additionally, we offer an integration option with a cloud-based Electro-Magnetic door lock system, making door access hassle-free. Just present your QR code at the booking time, and you're granted easy entry. Customisation is possible to integrate with your choice of EM door systems.
With Sojourner's advanced directory service, the process of finding members and visitors has been greatly simplified. Our comprehensive search functionality allows you to locate individuals based on a wide range of criteria, including name, NRIC, phone number, email, address, occupation, roles, skills, talents, and more. This level of detailed search capability empowers you to effortlessly identify the right person for any task or requirement, making member and visitor management more efficient than ever.
Sojourner provides a personalized profile for every church member, enhancing your ability to connect and engage with your congregation. Members can effortlessly access and update their profiles, which contain vital information like demographics, church-related details, contact information, and relationships. This feature ensures that you have a deeper understanding of each member and can strengthen your connections within the church community.
Empowers members and administrators to declare their skills and talents, while enabling leaders to efficiently search for specific skills and giftings within the congregation. This ensures that the right talents can be readily identified and utilized for serving in various ministries.
Sojourner simplifies the organization of departments, such as adult cell groups or youth ministries, with their own hierarchical structure, using the tree as an access control mechanism. This ensures that leaders can only access members within their subtree, regardless of their permission assignments. Permissions grant them access to features and information, while the tree constrains their access to members under their subtrees. Additionally, the system allows for batch moving of groups of members from one node to another within the tree, providing a seamless and secure way to manage and organize your congregation's structure.
Our family tree feature offers a user-friendly means to visualize and explore declared relationships through an intuitive family tree chart. What's more, our system incorporates an automatic detection feature, requiring just a simple click to uncover undeclared relationships, thereby ensuring a comprehensive and accurate family record. This feature also generates visualization for the extended family tree, providing a holistic view of family connections.
The Quick Menu, now the default navigation user interface for mobile devices, offers a more visually appealing and user-friendly experience for users with larger fingers. This feature allows power users to quickly access specific functions by entering keywords, instead of navigating through menus manually.
Our Service Planning feature empowers administrators to effortlessly craft comprehensive service plans and itineraries. These plans are easily accessible online and encompass shared resources like songs and sermons. Additionally, our roster team members can conveniently access these plans through a user-friendly calendar view, streamlining the coordination process.
Sojourner features a robust audit log search capability, enabling you to effortlessly trace any changes made to records and identify the individuals responsible, along with timestamps. This feature promotes accountability and transparency in your organization's operations, ensuring a clear and documented record of all modifications.
Easily generate comprehensive reports on membership records using Sojourner. With our filtering options, you can customize the report to display members based on their baptism dates, ministry, ministry role, membership status, age range, and occupation. Additionally, you have the flexibility to select additional fields to include in the report output, tailoring it precisely to your requirements. Once customized, you can export the report as a convenient spreadsheet for further analysis or sharing with other stakeholders, ensuring you have all the relevant data at your fingertips for informed decision-making.
The Pastoral Care module allows for the creation of cases to track the pastoral care needs of your members. Leaders can input follow-up actions such as visits and remarks to ensure that members receive the care they need. The dashboard provides an overview of all follow-up cases, allowing leaders to manage and prioritize their tasks effectively. Pastoral care records are only accessible to authorized leaders, ensuring the privacy of members' sensitive information.
Sojourner simplifies communication between the church and its members, as well as between leaders and members. It facilitates communication that can be filtered using a wide range of criteria, including membership type, roles, age range, tags, education level, skills, and address, among other factors. This flexibility ensures that messages can be precisely targeted to specific groups or individuals, enhancing the effectiveness of communication within the church community. Moreover, the module also offers the flexibility to choose the preferred communication mode, be it email, SMS, or both, accommodating the leader's communication style and member preferences.
Sojourner provides comprehensive management for Christian Education courses, offering features such as online registration, payment tracking, automated email notifications, and attendance reports. It efficiently captures the Christian Education history of all course participants, whether they are members or from the public, enabling a detailed record of their educational journey. Additionally, our system supports prerequisites, ensuring that participants meet the necessary requirements before enrolling in specific courses, thus enhancing the educational experience within our congregation.
The Events module facilitates online event registration, payment tracking, automated email notifications, and attendance management. It accommodates custom forms for each event, allowing for tailored questionnaires during the online registration process. Additionally, our system supports prerequisites, ensuring that participants meet necessary requirements before enrolling in specific events, thereby streamlining event planning and management within your congregation.
Sojourner efficiently tracks and manages follow-up on newcomer records by assigning them to a designated leader. The system carefully monitors the follow-up status and sends timely reminders to the assigned leader. Our user-friendly dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of all follow-up cases, ensuring that no newcomer is overlooked and that their integration into our congregation is seamless and welcoming.
The Children Ministry module simplifies the organization of children into classes, streamlining attendance tracking and the integration of child visitors. It also simplifies the annual promotion of entire classes of children. Additionally, we offer a kiosk solution that enables effortless attendance taking for children without the need for volunteer involvement. This feature includes the convenient printing of labels for both children and parents, enhancing the overall efficiency of our children's ministry. Furthermore, visitors can easily register themselves into the correct classes. The information captured also allows the church to follow up with these visitors, fostering a welcoming and engaging environment.
The Public Event Booking feature enables churchgoers to pre-book seats for weekly services or public events that require compliance with MCCY regulations. Confirmed bookings receive e-tickets for hassle-free check-in at the correct event and cluster. The system automates all weekly tasks, so no administrator intervention is necessary. It supports both recurring and one-time events and provides booking and attendance reports for auditing and attrition management.
The Private Event Booking feature allows the church to setup by-invitation-only events. It supports importing and managing of guest lists and batch booking. It enforces MCCY requirements and gives event coordinators access to most of the public event booking features.
Sojourner empowers your administrators to effortlessly create and assign rosters for weekly services, ensuring fair and automatic role assignments. Your volunteers receive reminders to either accept or reject their assignments, with the added flexibility for your administrators to override assignments as needed. This feature simplifies the coordination of your services, and it also includes streamlined attendance taking for volunteers, making the management of church events even more efficient.
The Calendar Module offers both calendar view and listing view options, providing a comprehensive display of all Christian Education classes, events, and services. It can be seamlessly embedded in external websites, including the church's official website. This integration allows visitors to choose between calendar view and listing view, enabling them to click directly on the calendar or navigate through the event listings to register for classes or events, making the registration process effortless for interested participants.
Sojourner facilitates attendance tracking across various modules, spanning weekly services, cell groups, courses, events, children's classes, and AGMs. This functionality is designed for ease of use, allowing attendance to be recorded from any device, anywhere. Additionally, our system generates insightful reports, offering valuable attendance-related insights for informed decision-making within your church community.
Sojourner empowers administrators to upload and manage shared media or resources, all while maintaining precise control over access permissions based on membership type, role, role type, or ministry involvement. These resources can include various media types and links and are complemented by configurable availability date ranges. Additionally, our system captures a comprehensive history of resource access by individual users, providing valuable insights into resource utilization within your church community.
The AGM module seamlessly integrates within Sojourner, offering an efficient solution for conducting both Annual General Meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings. This module simplifies attendance tracking and streamlines the generation of reports for straightforward record-keeping purposes. Every member's AGM attendance is carefully tracked and can be conveniently viewed alongside their personal profile, ensuring a complete and organized record of participation.
The Cell Group ministry can be structured within a versatile hierarchy, accommodating various meeting frequencies. Cell leaders receive timely attendance reminders, simplifying the process of recording attendance and collating data. Access to individual, group, and cluster attendance reports makes tracking participation effortless. Additionally, the system extends support for the management of XFXZ 幸福小组, further enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of your Cell Group ministry.
Sojourner enables the effortless creation of customizable forms, offering a variety of field types and visibility options. Private forms are directly linked to member P-Files and can be easily retrieved through the Directory search. Form data is seamlessly collated and exportable in spreadsheet format, making it a valuable resource. This data can also be integrated into the Christian Education and Events modules, enhancing custom registration questionnaires for these modules.
The main dashboard on Sojourner provides real-time charts displaying the distribution of members by gender, age group, and ministry participation, offering valuable insights at a glance. For each ministry, dedicated dashboards showcase all defined roles along with the number of participants in each role. Furthermore, users can easily access a list of constituent members by clicking on the role count. Additionally, the system allows for the creation of customized charts to leverage the wealth of data that Sojourner captures, providing even more in-depth and tailored insights for your church community.
Sojourner offers seamless support for multiple languages, ensuring users can access the application in their preferred language using the Multi-Language UI option. With this feature, one user can navigate the application in English, another in Chinese, and yet another in Tamil, enhancing accessibility and inclusivity. Moreover, it empowers our customers to make real-time, on-screen text adjustments in the language of their choice, providing a truly personalized and user-friendly experience.
Sojourner's robust support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication empowers third-party applications to seamlessly utilize the Sojourner membership database as the primary authentication backend. This facilitates a smooth and secure single sign-on experience, enhancing accessibility and user convenience across various integrated platforms.
Sojourner seamlessly integrates with multiple payment gateways to provide a diverse range of online payment options, including Red Dot, Mastercard Payment Gateway Service, Stripe, Paypal, and Telemoney. Our robust payment engine offers comprehensive features such as transaction status tracking, detailed logging, and customizable reports. Additionally, it includes automated retry mechanisms to ensure smooth and secure payment processing for your church community.
Customers are empowered with the flexibility to enable second-factor authentication (2FA) via SMS or email. The implementation of 2FA is adaptable, offering both inclusion and exclusion rules. With inclusion rules, the system enforces 2FA for specific roles, whereas exclusion rules allow the system to enforce 2FA for all roles except those specified. Furthermore, our system provides the option to seamlessly integrate Singpass login with 2FA. This means that users who log in without using Singpass will automatically be routed to the 2FA process, enhancing security and authentication for all users.
