INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION & TECHNOLOGY IN DEEPER
CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY
Vision (where we are going) is very important in whatever we are doing as individuals or as a non-profit religious
organization. We also need to clarify our mission (what we will do) to ensure we can achieve our vision. Achieving
heaven’s goal of world evangelization is the vision of the church currently and we all need to strive towards it.
This is how we intend to do so:
Vision:
1. Support the regular measurement of progress towards achieving heaven’s goal of world evangelization
2. Use data and information to inform or support leadership actions and decisions
3. Prepare for a future in which many worshippers will participate in church programs from home/online and
pay their tithes and offering via electronic means.
Mission:
1. Collect critical data on the various sections of work in the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (Churches, Women,
Youth, Campus and Children etc)
2. Regular update of the church database to ensure accuracy and reliability of information being generated
3. Provide global but restricted access to the database through the most reliable and secure online platforms
4. Capacity building of ICT brethren to ensure improved skills and high performance
Action:
1. Support timely collection and upload of data and information on church programs and activities (SWS, MBS,
MRS, HCF, SHSF, CFC etc) into the online database (dclmhub.com)
2. Support the effective analysis of the data church programs and activities to indicate gaps (absentees), trends
(declining or increasing church attendance) etc.
3. Use the data on telephone contacts of visitors to facilitate followup and relationship building with invitees
and guests
4. Use the database of visitors/guests in inviting people for special programs (Retreats, Monthly Programmes,
Crusades etc)
5. Use the database of telephone numbers to establish WhatsApp platform to nourish and strengthen the
converts and challenge the visitors
6. Annual update and analysis of Church Member Biodata with summary information or recommendations for
implementation at District, Group, Old-district, Regional, State and National levels.
7. Training of new and existing ICT brethren on the church database platforms including quarterly meetings to
resolve challenges arising from the work
GEM (ICT)
Purpose
- To spread the gospel news wide and far to all.
- To capture our members Bio Data information in order to have
- Full Knowledge of their personality and spiritual soundness
- To visit them and follow them up
- To identify our members anywhere in the world with specific identification number
- To cater for their personal welfare, by identifying the single, married, unemployed, retired, youth, children, adult, position in the church, position in secular work, educational achievement, age bracket etc. with the aim of planning programme that will suit their various individual needs
- To ascertain the number of workers and members in the church.
- To get a real-time data capture of invitees to church programmes, weekly services, special programmes, combined services at headquarters church, retreat and conferences.
- To have a real-time data capture of our weekly services attendance on Monday Bible Study, Thursday Revival & Evangelism Training Service, Sunday Worship Service and House Caring Fellowship.
- To assist the follow-up team members by furnishing them with a prepared list of converts, and invitees of our church programmes and weekly programmes.
- To help in the publicity and branding effort of the church.
Methods & Strategies.
- Appointment of ICT Reps in all church location, districts, groups and old-districts.
- Development of database application software (church management portals) for church use that will cater for the need of locations , Districts , Groups and Old District Churches.
- Training of ICT Reps at different levels – District, Group and Old-district – on the use of the software application.
- Training of ushers and ICT Reps in the use of the database application for inputting weekly service attendance.
- Assisting in GEM training
- Participating in the evangelism outreach using social media such as Facebook, WhatsApp etc and personal contact.
- Capturing of invitees and converts Data into the system database and sending inspiring text messages to them within few hours of receiving their registration and converts slips.
- Contributing to the evangelism programmes of the church through the use of social media and personal contact.