Churches are made of many moving parts. Worship team leaders, Nursery volunteers, greeters, coffee makers, cookie bakers, guitar players, youth group leaders — there are a myriad of roles for everyone to play. Scheduling and organizing everyone and everything, however, requires good tools.
What scheduling software does your church use? What do you use it for? What are the upsides and downsides of the program? The CRCNA allows provides churches with the Bridge app; does your church use it? What are the benefits and drawbacks of doing so? Does anyone use a simple application like Google Calender and Sheets?
Looking forward to reading everyone's responses!
Comments
We use Planning Center's Services to schedule volunteers for Sunday morning ministries. I like that I can see scheduling conflicts instantly as I input the schedule, and can make switches before sending the schedules out so I'm not flooded with emails asking me to do it after it goes out. I also love that PCO sends out the reminder emails- something I used to spend a lot of time on each week.
We use the Bridge App calendar feature which feeds from a Google calendar to indicate what's going on in the building and invite people to events. We're trying to create a single source of truth for the calendar in the Bridge App.
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