Planning Center Resources

• Getting started with Church Center

• Moving recurring online donations to Church Center

• Check in your child using Church Center

Resources for Volunteers

• Download Services app. Services is a separate app from Church Center that allows you to add your volunteer dates to your phone calendar, view the service order, and play back reference media for worship rehearsals.

• Services Website

• How to check when you are scheduled: Desktop, iOS, Android, or in Church Center app

• How to set blockout dates: Desktop, iOS, Android

• How to set up scheduling preferences: Desktop, iOS, Android

  • You can set preferences to only serve when someone else in your household is serving, or when someone else is NOT serving (if one of you needs to take care of the kids).

  • You can also specify a preferred number of times per month or even certain weeks of the month.

• How to add scheduled dates to your calendar: Desktop, iOS, Android

• How to get notifications through text messages

• How to set app notification preferences

Resources for Volunteer team leaders

• General introduction for team leaders

• How to schedule volunteers on the matrix - Direct link to the matrix

• How to request that your team members add their blockout dates

• Email your teams members: Desktop, iOS, Android

• How create a sign up sheet to let your team fill in needed roles

Resources for Worship Leaders

• Overview of how to add new songs to our library - How to add a song, specify key, arrangements, add media and more

• Add songs to the order of service

Resources for Worship Team Members

• Access media and chord charts for rehearsal - How to play back reference YouTube and audio files, view chord charts

• Download Music Stand app: iOS, Android - Paperless worship music!

  • Add written notes to sheet music, import notes from other team members, advance pages with a foot pedal

• Music Stand app help

Resources for Lifegroup and Fellowship Members

• General guide for group members

• How to add group events to your phone calendar - see your small group events alongside everything else in your life

• How to use Group Messaging - Like WhatsApp or Slack, but integrated inside the Church Center app

• Set group notification preferences in Church Center app - Maybe your group chat is a little too active

Resources for Lifegroup and Fellowship Leaders

• General introduction for group leaders

• How to take attendance - Help the pastoral staff understand who’s active in the church

• How to set up a new group event - useful for special events that don’t occur during your normal group meeting time

• How to notify group members

• Upload a resource - such as a shared file or link