Church members are the heart of the church. Here’s how Church 365 enables everyone to engage.

• Members are invited to log into Church 365 and Teams using their own, existing online identity: a Gmail account, an existing work login, an Outlook.com address, etc.
• Any member of the congregation can create and manage—with staff approval—their own “Community” (a Microsoft Team). Once approved, these requesters are added to the team as Church 365 Community “leaders”
• Requested Communities can be “public” (like a Men’s or Women’s Ministry), or “private” (like a small group)
• Teams allows instant communication through video, audio, or chatting, to individuals or groups
• Teams are also email-enabled distribution lists, so communications are enabled to all members of these communities using a single email address
• Maintain your personal information: contact info, mailing info, and your photo (visible in Church 365 and in Teams)
• The staff member who approves the Community is added to it and receives all communications and has access to all files

Administrative and pastoral staff have access to communication tools that allow oversight of members’ usage of Church 365 features. Your communication is likely centralized in the sense that your staff does the oversight and the heavy lifting (Hey secretary, could you send this email out for me?…)
With Church 365, your members do the work of their ministry, and you equip them. Those members are now empowered to work directly with their flock (send their own emails, share their own files, schedule their own events, make their own announcements, invite their own members…). The staff simply maintains oversight and continues equipping the saints for the work of ministry!

• The Church 365 member database is automatically kept synchronized with your Office 365 directory, so you can manage member access and Community (Teams) membership in one place using simple tools
• Designate other staff or volunteers with Church 365 role assignments that grant privileges to perform member maintenance within Office 365 (some roles require a Microsoft 365 license assignment; most don’t)
• Manage church membership status, Community membership, deacon assignments, and family relationships between members
• Create and schedule email and SMS communications using templates and graphics, which are distributed using the same Community (Teams) definitions

• All Communities (Teams) created within Church 365 are automatically mail-enabled and visible in your staff Outlook directory
• Create custom “Community Labels” for your church and assign these labels to each of your Communities. This doesn’t change the experience in Teams but does allow your membership to sort and organize all the available Communities within Church 365
• Designate one Teams “Team” as the Default Community; anyone invited to log in is automatically added to this Community
• Manage Community creation requests, validating need, modifying as appropriate, and rejecting if necessary; we’ll handle all the back-end work and communications through this process
• Manage Community event creation requests in a similar fashion

• Approve/create calendar entries (or submit calendar events for publishing, members), view the whole shared calendar on the front page, and publish announcements whether associated with a calendar event or not
• Organize your office file system in the cloud, using Teams combined with OneDrive and synchronized with your Windows Explorer or Mac Finder files and folders—this enables files to be shared automatically with members, in their respective communities
• Keep track of staff secrets (passwords, etc.) securely and with an audit trail
• Share multi-factor authentication methods on any shared platform (many users, one account!) using the church’s information, not any one person’s cell phone or email
• Create an Azure-hosted WordPress website with one click
• Signage: Create and manage digital content distributed automatically throughout your facility (digital signage)
  Signage Manager Details
• Streaming: Full-featured, scheduled live stream capabilities: live stream your worship services using your free Azure grant from Microsoft, and embed the player, with sermon history, in your public site or share directly in Church 365
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• Streaming: With the live streaming feature, manage your database of sermons; our live streaming service is designed for churches, so assign your speakers from a list and add multiple passages of Scripture (hot-linked) to each broadcast
• Streaming: After the broadcast is complete, create custom clips—choose a start and end time, choose a pre and/or post-roll of your design to wrap around your clip, and send it off for processing in the cloud—with 3 clicks
• As a Microsoft Partner, we will assist you with receiving your non-profit benefits from Microsoft, democratizing the IT ministry functions of the church, and provide guidance so that your net monthly cost could be zero!