This End Up

There are so many features in Arena it is impossible see the full depth of everything in one, two... days. For starters study the things David described in his blog at http://davidturner.typepad.com/davidturner/arena/index.html Now, if small groups are important to your church and your church is large, then keeping track of them is very important. Have them show you the ways you can slice and dice this data (area maps, member reports, etc.) If keeping your members involved is important along with making sure no one falls through the cracks, then take a good look at the "volunteer tracking" part of the system. Get a good understanding of how this part works. We have a old branch (pre-Arena, pre-Solomon) of this part of the system and it is a vital tool to ministry leaders. Then there are all the communication related features (promotion, campaigns, newsletters, bulletins, public event calendar), sport teams management, attendance/check-in capabilities, Web Prayer, classifieds, polling features, website CMS, IT hardware/software reporting, ... it seems like the list never ends. I'm going to blog the details about the modules I implement over the next few months. -Nick