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Start a "Top 3" Small Group - Have your members use the "Top 10 Most Like Me..." tool to determine each member's top 3 overall. Have each member send an email to their top 3 fellow members requesting they get together.
Post Your Sermons Online - Upload your sermon notes to the members area and advertise it to your congregation. Encourage they review the sermons during the week.
Add Streaming Sermons - Submit your sermon audio cassettes to myflock.net for publishing in your members area. Members can listen to your sermons online.
  Include a Quiz in your Service - Quiz the congregation with some interesting true/false facts during your service. Post the answers in your online sermon notes area.
  Post Member Birthdays in the Calendar - Include member's birthdays in your online calendar.
- Send an email to the Congregation Use the email tool in the administrator's control panel to send the entire congregation on email reminder, announcement, etc.
Post a Prayer Request - Use the communication center to post a prayer request for the congregation.
Promote the Business Directory - Remind your congregation to do business with those in your members area business directory. Remind business owners that they can advertise for free in the members area. To be included in the business directory, members must complete their profile and check the box to include their business in the business directory.
Hold a Drawing to Encourage Members to Complete Profiles - Announce an upcoming drawing for a prize (dinner certificates, movies, etc.). Include only those members who have completed their profiles in the members area. Hold the drawing at an evening service, or all church meeting.
Free T-shirts to first "50" Profiles Completed - Offer T-shirts to your first 50 members to complete profiles in the members area.
Take Member's Pictures - After, before, or between services, use a digital camera to take pictures of the members. Provide an online computer and allow the member's to upload the pictures to their personal web page. Each completed web page is included in the member's directory.
Use Bulletin Announcements Every Week - Include announcements in your bulletin advertising your new online member's area. Use the announcement ideas included in the Pastor's Pack and come up with some of your own.
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Membership Directory
An online membership directory may be added or viewed only by authorized parties. Outdated printed directories can be a thing of the past. After initial implementation and member registration validated from a current membership directory provided by the church, members can modify their contact information (address and telephone numbers) by entering their screen name and password. Members may modify ONLY their own data. Designated church staff may make changes to the entire directory.

Message Board
A message board allows visitors to the site to enter comments or pose questions. Responses may be entered by others and appended to the original comment or question.

Ministries
For each of the ministries of your church, include a short description of it activities and focus, and the contact persons (telephone and email address) for participation. The "ministries" page can consist of a list of the ministries linked to the descriptions.

Mission Statement
If your church has developed a mission statement, it may be included on the web site as a separate page with a link on the navigation bar, menu or as a link from the home page.

Music Department Page
Describe your music ministry in detail. You may include the names of your music staff with telephone contact information and Email addresses. Describe each choir or group with the requirements for membership and rehearsal schedules. If your web site includes a form for joining an activity, a link to that form can be placed on this page for new choir members.

Newsletter
You may establish a catalog of newsletters that may be updated by a user interface, which does not require knowledge of programming techniques. The title of the newsletter is entered with the text, which may be pasted from a document file with or without HTML formatting...more>>

Pastor's Page
A picture and short biography of your pastor (and associates or assistants if desired) can be displayed. Include a hyperlink for composing Email messages to the pastor(s) and contact telephone numbers. You may also want to add an audio file with a short message of welcome or inspiration. NetOneStop(sm) will construct the web site so that church staff can upload new audio messages as desired.

Payment Processing
Sales of audio tapes, video tapes and other products as well as regular offerings and payments may be processed on your web site for a small processing fee of $0.25 per transaction. If the church has established or establishes a credit card merchant account, the setup fee for processing is $100. For processing handled through our secure site ChurchCart.com, there is an additional minimum fee of $1.00 per transaction versus 3.5% of the charge amount with no setup fee. Payments processed through ChurchCart.com will be remitted twice monthly if greater that $10.00 and no less than monthly.

Photo album
We will design a page to be modified by a secure user interface to allow non-programmers to build a photo display page containing a specified number of pictures with text and captions for each picture (optional)

Pledges
If your church conducts fundraising drives which require members to make pledges; a page can be included for this purpose. If there is more than one fund being solicited for, a pull down menu can be included to designate the purpose for the pledge. An email message will be sent to the designated church official for compilation purposes. Recipients of the pledge messages can be changed as required according to the activities of your church.

Site Search Engine
A site search engine allows a visitor to search the contents of your site by entering words or a phrase, and is particularly useful for a large site to assist visitors in locating information on the site.

Suggestions
This feature allows member and viewers of your site to enter their suggestions to be emailed to designated persons.

Tape Reservation Form
If your church makes audio and video tapes of worship services available to the congregation, a reservation form can be included on the web site to receive requests for these tapes. From the reservation form, an email message will be sent to the appropriate staff member for processing including the date and time of the service or differentiating information.

Video Web Broadcasting
Weekly church services and other events may be broadcast and viewed by accessing your church's web site via an on-site broadcast server connected to an Internet line (DSL, cable modem or T1/fractional T1). The type of Internet line will depend on availability in your area but must at least be capable of 128,000 bits (128KB) per second. An on-site video server is required which may be purchased, leased or rented per event. Connections can be made to the server directly from existing video equipment or from a connected video camera. Costs for on-site equipment will vary based on existing equipment. Broadcast fees are dependent the number of video streams to be made available. With on-site server installation, on-demand video replay is available with no additional monthly fee.

Video File Catalog for On-demand Play
Pre-recorded video selections may be made available for on-demand play from your web site. Tapes must be encoded and stored on our servers if on-site equipment is not obtained for this purpose. Fees are dependent on length of broadcast, number of selections to be made available.

Worship Schedule
The standard worship schedule of your church should be posted on a separate page or included on the home page. This will typically include Sunday Worship Service(s), Sunday School and regularly scheduled prayer meetings. Never miss an opportunity for evangelizing!
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