in Christ: Andrew Fountain's blog

Requirements

1. Online access to names, address, email & phone (Currently:MS Access)
2. Email newsletters (Currently:MailChimp)
3. Attendance records (Currently:MS Access)
4. CRM notes (Currently:MS Access—limited)
5. Gifts and interests (Currently:spreadsheet)
6. Donations (Currently:accounting system)
7. Homegroup & other group email (Currently:Google groups)
8. Team scheduling (Currently:just a web page) This needs to have full email integration for both reminders and replies

Available Solutions

• Open Source Full CRM
  • CiviCRM A very full featured system, but would require some configuration.
    • Comments about churches who use it here and here
  • Church.io/onebody Really nice interface providing a very complete church intranet
    • Missing donations, newsletters & team scheduling
  • Church Info web-based php/mysql on SourceForge, actively developed by Mike Wilt, but forked into Church Web CRM
  • Church Web CRM fork of churchinfo by George Dawoud to bring new features. Looks very slick and full-featured.

I am in the process of re-launching my theology and teaching website: loveintruth.com. I have just finished teaching a 30 hour course on "Interpreting the Bible" at the TACF School of Ministry. I have posted almost the entire teaching notes from the course on loveintruth.On the technical side, this was my first time using the book module in Drupal and I was very pleased with how it works. I think the whole thing hangs together well and is easy to navigate. Eventually I want to move all the content on the site into that format.