Meet Alex! This new tool for congregations will replace the tedious process of filling out your yearbook form this winter. You can update your contact information and staff names in real-time as well as keep your attendance totals and weekly offerings with an easy-to-use interface accessed by desktop, tablet, or mobile devices. You can spot trends and patterns over time to make informed decisions about your congregation's future.
This is just the first step in building out a robust database for use by the Church. General Minister and President Terri Hord Owens set this as an objective early in her tenure, knowing from her earlier experience in corporate settings that business intelligence (data) is key to making informed decisions. Alex will position Disciples to finally have a real-time directory and picture of churchwide trends that has been impossible with the current yearbook system.
Your congregation’s data will be rolled up into region-wide totals that your regional staff will be able to see for a real-time picture of activity. As your data accumulates, you will be able to easily see trends and patterns in the previous months and, eventually, for several years. The data will automatically be presented in graphs. Other congregations will not have access to your data until the year book “snapshot” but congregations and regional ministers will be able to download individual congregations’ data for study, profiles, and more.
Please enter the contact information for the person who will be the primary ALEX database user at your congregation.
Please submit your contact information as soon as possible to be able to submit your yearbook data by the March 15, 2021 deadline.