MissionConnect™ is a comprehensive database management software package for United Methodist Conferences. MissionConnect contains all of the functions our customers have come to expect from Great Spirit Systems over the past 29 years, and offers expanded functionality with the added ease and convenience of Internet access and cloud based data storage.
Main
MissionConnect: Main provides secure access to all MissionConnect applications through login and permissions based data access assigned to each user.
Center
MissionConnect: Center supports the maintenance of professional clergy data and records, laity records, committees, local church leadership and a host of functions dependent upon this data. This latest release contains a multitude of new features making navigation and content management simpler than ever before.
Communicate
MissionConnect: Communicate provides users with the ability to target specific groups of people for mailings and email communications, based upon leadership positions, geographic areas, churches, demographic and many other criteria. Bulk email communications can be generated, mailing labels and envelopes can be printed and spreadsheets along with combination output can be created.
Report
MissionConnect: Report is an online report application designed to provide users the ability to either view or print specially formatted reports from all areas of the database. Report data can also be exported to spreadsheets.
Give
MissionConnect: Give is an application that provides functions for managing church apportionments, funds, and projects with billing and receiving processing. Exports and uploads a report file to the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM).
Lead
MissionConnect: Lead provides cabinet decision support through compiling data from all clergy for easy cabinet viewing and access. Customized profile and assessment tools for the charges, churches and pastors may be created for your conference.
Church Reporting
MissionConnect: Church Reporting is designed to be used by Churches to enter the data typically provided by the local church, thus saving staff resources in the District and Conference offices. These include:
Statistics – Year-End Statistical reporting through a flexible design which coincides with conference forms. In addition to the required Tables 1, 2, 3, additional custom tables can be created for conference specific data gathering.
Local Church Leadership – Entry of all church leadership accessible by District/Conference offices through Center. Including Leadership positions, tenure, and Contact Information for the church leadership.
Charge Conference Checklist – Customized list of all Charge Conference forms completed online and uploaded for access by District and Conference offices. These forms can also include a customized and secure Clergy Profile completed by each Clergy person, and a customized and secure Church Profile completed by the SPRC Chair.
Benefits
MissionConnect: Benefits provides benefits management and billing options for participants of CRSP/CPP, medical insurance, life insurance, flexible benefits, UMPIP, vision insurance, dental insurance, H.S.A., Medicare Part D and other benefits as required by the customer.
AdminTools
MissionConnect: AdminTools provides MissionConnect Administrators the ability to assign and manage user access to applications, forms and specific data, including both read-only and read-write access or no access. It also provides password management.
Ministry Financials
MissionConnect: Ministry Financials is a web application for churches to login and view their apportionments or tithe amounts, and special giving, as well as their benefits billing and payments. Churches can make online ACH payments on all of these items, with payments processed by Vanco services. Remittances can handle either traditional apportionments, or a tithe (income based) model with the ability for the church to enter and calculate their income and tithe amount.
