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Notes on running a church well
Registers, attendance, giving and the quarterly return, written for how churches in Ghana actually work. Useful whether or not you ever use Fold.
- Running the church
How to prepare a church statistical return, step by step
What the quarterly return asks for, where each figure comes from, and the checklist that turns an evening of reconciling three books into an hour. Written for the society secretary who has to produce it.
Read more - Running the church
Keeping the church register: a guide for church secretaries
What to record for each member, how to keep a register that survives a change of secretary, what the Data Protection Act asks of a church, and when a book, a spreadsheet or software is the right tool.
Read more - Giving
How to set up mobile money giving for your church
A MoMo number on the projector is where most churches start and where the problems begin. The three ways to take mobile money giving, what each costs, what your members will actually see on their phones, and how the money reaches the church.
Read more - Choosing software
Best church management software in Ghana (2026)
Every guide to this is written by one of the vendors, including this one. So here is the version that names what each product is genuinely good at, including the ones that beat us.
Read more - Church admin
How to produce your statistical return without a spreadsheet
Most societies rebuild the same return every quarter from a notebook, a cash book and someone's memory. Here is why it takes so long, and what has to change for it to take minutes instead.
Read more - Church admin
Moving your church register from a book to a computer
Churches lose their records to floods, fires, and the one person who knew where everything was. Moving the register is less work than it looks, and there is a right order to do it in.
Read more - Giving
What mobile money actually costs a church in Ghana
The headline rate is not the number that matters. For churches collecting many small offerings, the minimum fee per transaction can cost more than the percentage.
Read more - Pastoral care
Noticing when a member has quietly stopped coming
People rarely leave a church by announcing it. They come less, then not at all, and by the time anyone notices it has been four months. Head counts cannot see it. Here is what can.
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Stop rebuilding the same return every quarter
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