Shelby Systems Quarterly News

We hope you had a wonderful Easter season!

We're excited to bring you the most recent updates on the Shelby Systems platform and services, along with content to help you grow your ministry and minister to your congregation.

In this quarter's newsletter we'll cover:

The State of Church Giving
Resources for Next Level Generosity
5 Tips for a Successful Summer Children's Program
Updates You Don't Want to Miss
Shelby Financials Expensify Integration
Education Corner

We're here to serve you as you serve in your ministry. Have a blessed day and enjoy the newsletter!

Blessings,

Steve Pruitt
steve.pruitt@shelbyinc.com
General Manager, Shelby Systems

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The State of Church Giving Report

Ministry Brands and The Parable Group recently released the 2024 Report on The State of Church Giving to identify the latest giving trends.

If you're ready to unlock new opportunities for growth, looking to enhance your current church giving strategies, or seek fresh innovative ideas to create a healthy church giving culture, let this be the resource you lean into.

In this report, you'll discover:

Pivotal Shifts in Church Generosity: Understand how giving has evolved during 2023
Effective Giving Strategies: Identify which methods resonated most with congregants
The Digital Giving Landscape: Has digital giving maintained it's momentum?

Download Now

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Resources for Next Level Generosity

Subsequent to our State of Church Giving Report we hosted a live webinar to discuss how your church can use our recently released suite of giving enhancements to maximize generosity.

If you missed the webinar or want a recap, we've got you covered with the on-demand recording. This webinar will help transform your digital giving strategies and amplify the impact of your ministry.

You'll discover:

Strategies for maximizing digital giving tools to enhance donor engagement.
Best practices for storytelling at the point of giving.
Guides for creating impactful storytelling through your Impact Reports and More Ways to Give prompts.
Insights on embracing diverse giving options like Stocks and Crypto.

As a special thank you, we have a downloadable toolkit which includes graphics, Impact Report wording samples, and the Creating a Compelling Vision worksheet. Check out the how-to guides for creating Impact Reports, as well.

Keep these resources handy as you continue to inspire generosity in your church community.

Watch Replay

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5 Tips for a Successful Summer Children's Program

Summer is almost here, which means it's time to start planning for this year’s Vacation Bible School (VBS) & Summer Children’s Programming. We've compiled 5 Tips For a Successful VBS or Children's Summer Program to streamline your programs and make them a success for both volunteers and participants.

Read Now

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Updates You Don't Want to Miss

ShelbyNext Membership Groups page is getting a refresh! Easily see more details about the Group settings, experience faster load times with pages, and enjoy cleaner filtering options.

Expanded Configurable Fields – you can now have up to 50 custom date fields and 50 custom text fields in ShelbyNext Membership (and you can re-order them).

Searching and filtering on the Schedules page has been enhanced. You can now see Schedules directly on the volunteer’s record (including the status).

In case your parents are like ours, you can now reprint Check-In pick-up labels if they have misplaced it without having to do a second check-in.

Made an edit to a group after you scheduled a Mass Email or Text? No worries, the messages will now dynamically update to include/exclude updated group members.

MinistryOne Mobile has added Flex Pages – design your app to look and feel like home.

Coming Soon: Member Interactions in MinistryOne Mobile! If you are not using one or either of these features, you are missing an opportunity for member care community connection.

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Shelby Financials Expensify Integration

User-added image Do you use Expensify?

If so, that process is now made easier. The ability to import Expensify transactions into the Financials General Ledger is now available for customers using a paid Expensify Business account. This value-add feature makes it easy to import approved invoices if you are using Expensify to help manage reimbursements for employees.

See Expensify Integration in the online help for more information.

Watch the Expensify Overview Video here.

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Education Corner

Visit the Ministry Brands Healthy Church Hub for content and resources that promote healthy churches. The Healthy Church Hub provides church leaders with knowledge and support to fulfill their mission and help lead their community, with resources including:

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Previous webinar recordings and slides for the Advance Your Knowledge Webinar Series are available on the 'Home' page of the Shelby Community. While you're there, register and reserve your spot for a FREE upcoming webinar.

Click here to visit the Shelby Community

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101 Virtual Training Workshops are designed for new ChMS or ShelbyFinancials customers, users who need a refresher course, and/or existing customers who change staff positions.

These workshops are two hours daily over the course of four days, and:

Are offered online as an interactive lecture-style video conference session
Include a detailed step by step workbook (available as a PDF download)
Will run from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Central Time)

Workshops are limited to 15 attendees. Secure your spot today before spaces fill up!

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201 Virtual Training Workshops are designed for existing ChMS or ShelbyFinancials customers who want to streamline their processes or simply gain tips and tricks for their software tools.

There are four topics for each 201 workshop and each workshop is broken into two-hour sessions that can be taken separately or collectively.

Each session:

Is offered online as an interactive lecture-style video conference session
Includes a detailed step-by-step workbook (available as a PDF download)
Will run from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Central Time)

Workshops are limited to 12 attendees. Secure your spot today before spaces fill up!

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