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NewProducts

Streamline ministry management

with end-to-end SaaS

enhance engagement through donor nurturing and
reconciliation.
• Church management system: ChMS software in-
cludes check-in, event management, forms, volun-
teer and service planning, people workflows, metrics
dashboards, groups, and more, providing a central
hub for member and community management.
ushpay, a payments and engagement provider to
the U.S. faith sector, created ChurchStaq, a tech- • Mobile applications: Mobile app features include
nology suite designed to help churches grow and push notifications, dynamic content, mobile check-
P scale. The solution includes a church manage- in, livestream, sermon notes and more, to streamline
ment system (ChMS), mobile app, donor engagement tools communication and accessibility.
and giving platform to help churches of all sizes connect
across different ministry touch points, the company stated. ChurchStaq user Jim White, senior pastor at First United
Methodist Church in Palmdale, Calif., recalled launching
Aaron Senneff, chief technology officer at Pushpay, has the Pushpay App about a year before the pandemic, having
observed that churches work hard to drive participation no idea how important it would become for communicating
and stay connected with their congregations. "Our the church's mission and ministry in the years to follow.
combined solutions enhance connections across all aspects "It has become our primary means of communication to
of the Church," he said, adding that church administrators our community," he said. "We have everything from our
can use the solution to access the data and information they livestream, to giving, small group sign ups, and prayer
need to engage with people. concerns—all being shared within our app."

Multilingual support
Senneff additionally noted that faith-based institutions
have traditionally been slower to adopt new technology, Pushpay's ChurchStaq also enables users to view online
and their legacy systems are not optimized to meet their content in Spanish, including the digital giving experience,
growing need, especially in today's rapidly evolving Lead app content and more. Its multilingual capabilities
digital landscape. Pushpay works to change that, he said, have been a game changer, according to Tim Hill, executive
by creating solutions that drive generosity while reducing pastor at Bear Creek Baptist Church.
administrative burdens.
"Offering services and technology in Spanish allows many
Senneff noted that one of the biggest pain points for people from our online community to still fully engage and
churches and nonprofits is the manual processes needed give and support the ministry, which in turn allows us to
to import and export data from different tools needed continue to offer services in Spanish," Hill said. "For us, the
to create reports or view trends in their organization. technology has been a huge value."
ChurchStaq's fully integrated suite brings data together in
one place, making it easy to create reports, view trends and Hill noted that Bear Creek Baptist Church launched its first
act on insights, he added. Spanish language worship service in 2014 with an Easter
Mission-critical software service which attracted 60 attendees. Today, the church has
more than 400 families and individuals that worship at its
ChurchStaq delivers integrated tools to help streamline Spanish service at any given time.
ministry management, delivering an online giving solution,
mobile applications, church management system and live As Pushpay continues to expand its bilingual options, the
streaming, according to Pushpay representatives, who company affirmed it is working towards translating its
pointed out the company's integrated technology ensures products into Vietnamese, Korean, and traditional Chinese.
data is in sync and accessible across all platforms.
Ministries can use ChurchStaq to generate year-end reports,
gain insights and enhance community involvement, church Company: Pushpay
services and group management, they added, citing the Product: ChurchStaq
following key features:
Website: www.pushpay.com
• Digital giving: Pushpay giving tools facilitate do-
nations and record keeping, enabling churches to Contact: pr@pushpay.com
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