What do people see during the week when the come to the Church? Do you have an information kiosks that they can inspect to see what’s going on? One approach that I’ve seen uses a closed loop TV cable system to display information. The sequence is an endless loop, showing the same series of images. Or perhaps you have a slideshow that appears.

Why not integrate the announcements from Sunday with the information kiosk? That way, people would find the same information when they came to a Church meeting that they saw on Sunday. You could dedicate a page on your web site to providing a slideshow with this information. The slideshow would automatically repeat. You would update it on the database from time to time, and it would publish new announcements automatically. Here is an example that I have programmed:

Announcement Loop

How do you measure a congregation? Some would say that you don’t need statistics, just the Word. But any large organization needs to measure itself, to determine what progress it is making in reaching its goals. Whether it be in terms of attendance, or giving, or even parking lot performance, the measurements depend upon data and metrics. And you need to utilize communication channels to keep the entire congregation aware of what information you are gaining by the measurements. Is it time for that new sanctuary because attendance has exploded over the last year? Do we need to reroute traffic to avoid a traffic jam in between services? These are the kinds of information that you need to plan for the future needs of the congregation.