Church Community Builder has within its core functionality and design the assumption that building community is the most important function of a local church. Community is where we engage others, call people to live out their faith through specific action, and see life change occur right before our eyes. One key ingredient to getting the most out of Church Community Builder is to get as many members of your church as possible using your site once you are ready to roll it out to the entire church. Please hear this however: community adoption is not, by itself, a metric of success. It is incredibly important to define why you want people to log in and what you hope will happen as a result. These goals will change over time and it is best to start with small, incremental goals which then build momentum towards bigger ones.
People know you as the office expert, but you know the role goes much deeper. Success for you is about empowering your leaders with the data and administrative support they need to understand how people are being cared for and how God is moving in your ministry.
I’ve been thinking about the implications of what Steven Furtick wrote in What is Your Vision Worth to You? It really resonated with me.
We designed Church Community Builder (CCB) with the leader in mind. As we’ve grown, we’ve had to make some mission critical decisions along the way. One of those decisions is that we’ve decided to optimize our software for a leadership model that is "top down." I don’t mean to suggest that those at the top are dictators. But churches...or any organization for that matter...without a strong leadership presence probably aren’t a good fit for CCB. (Think Tribes.)
Building community is at the heart of what we do. Yes, we develop and sell technology. But that’s the “what” of what we do. When it comes to the “why,” the only reasonable response is to build community within local churches to encourage and empower ministry to take place.