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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Operations</title><link>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/22.aspx</link><description>Discussion about Operations for Children's Ministry.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007 SP2 (Build: 20611.960)</generator><item><title>Re: Electronic Check-In</title><link>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/thread/4029.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 04:22:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0f13730e-872a-45b8-8e14-b95aead6df61:4029</guid><dc:creator>JillNelson</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/thread/4029.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=4029</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#39;re in the process of switching to Connection Power. While it&amp;#39;s not perfect, there are a lot of great elements that will serve our church as a whole (which is great because we&amp;#39;ve all been using seperate systems since the main one didn&amp;#39;t work well for individual ministries). The Power Visitor element is working SO WELL!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Electronic Check-In</title><link>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/thread/3923.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:18:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0f13730e-872a-45b8-8e14-b95aead6df61:3923</guid><dc:creator>DoubleJ</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/thread/3923.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=3923</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;We use Arena Check-In (&lt;a href="http://www.arenachms.com/"&gt;www.arenachms.com&lt;/a&gt;) and we are very impressed with it.&amp;nbsp; We upgraded to Arena from Shelby about a year ago, and are excited about Arena&amp;#39;s interface and ease of use by our staff.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Electronic Check-In</title><link>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/thread/3917.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:46:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0f13730e-872a-45b8-8e14-b95aead6df61:3917</guid><dc:creator>henryjz</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/thread/3917.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=3917</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;We use &lt;a href="http://www.lambslist.com" target="_blank"&gt;Lambs List&lt;/a&gt;. Although I&amp;#39;m not a fan of the name, it is a great check in program. It does just what I need it to do, and it is all online! Plus the tech people over there are great to work with.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Electronic Check-In</title><link>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/thread/3915.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:39:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0f13730e-872a-45b8-8e14-b95aead6df61:3915</guid><dc:creator>John</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/thread/3915.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=3915</wfw:commentRss><description>We have been using Parent Pager for two years and have been very pleased. It is used for check-in for all children through the fifth grade. It is pretty much 100% customizable to your needs. We had the rep out when we installed it and he set it up specifically for our needs. We use it for about 1000 children per weekend and have very few problems.

parentpager.com</description></item><item><title>Re: Electronic Check-In</title><link>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/thread/3738.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:07:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0f13730e-872a-45b8-8e14-b95aead6df61:3738</guid><dc:creator>jgiles</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/thread/3738.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=3738</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;We use Connection Power, which is a web-based program.&amp;nbsp; It has several components that you can purchase separately, and has a great care ministry section that allows you to communicate with other departments in notes and it notifies you if you there are needs.&amp;nbsp; It provides a list of kids who have missed 1, 2, or 3 times so that they can be contacted before you have lost a family.&amp;nbsp; The program price varies by your church size.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;We love that&amp;nbsp;Connection Power&amp;#39;s staff listens to our needs and works to improve the product and release new features monthly.&amp;nbsp; The reports have been tough to maneuver, but we&amp;#39;re learning to call their staff if we can&amp;#39;t pull up what we need.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;We made the move to Connection Power from Shelby and some of our staff wishes that the servant module from Shelby was in CP, but&amp;nbsp;other than that, we&amp;#39;re very&amp;nbsp;happy with it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Electronic Check-In</title><link>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/thread/3734.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:01:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">0f13730e-872a-45b8-8e14-b95aead6df61:3734</guid><dc:creator>pricel</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/thread/3734.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://spin.willowcreek.com/c/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=3734</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;What electronic check-in system does your church use?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>