Does Fold understand the AME Zion structure?

Yes. Fold is built around Conference, Presiding Elder District, Church, with your classes, each with a class leader and the offices you actually use: Pastor, Presiding Elder, Class Leader, Steward, Trustee.

Can Fold produce our conference return?

Yes. Membership by group, attendance measured against services actually held, baptisms and confirmations, and income by type, for any period, ready to print or save as PDF for the presiding elder and conference.

Can we use our own membership categories?

Yes. Member types are the words your church uses, such as Full Member, Probationer, Junior Member, Adherent, rather than a fixed list written for somebody else's church.

The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Church software for AME Zion churches in Ghana

AME Zion carries the Methodist class system: members belong to a class, the class has a leader, and the leader knows who has stopped coming long before anyone else does. Above the local church sit the presiding elder district and the annual conference.

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Your structure, not a template

Fold is built around that, including the part most software forgets: a class leader should see their own class, and not the whole church's giving.

Levels of oversight

Conference
Presiding Elder District
Church

Branches let one account oversee several churchs, each keeping its own register.

Your words, not ours

Membership categories

Full Member
Probationer
Junior Member
Adherent

Offices your church fills

Pastor
Presiding Elder
Class Leader
Steward
Trustee

These are examples from AME Zion practice. You type your own, and nothing is a fixed list.

Your conference return, already filled in

The evening somebody in your church loses every period, assembling figures that were all written down somewhere already. Fold counts them from the records your team kept as they went.

Membership totalled and broken down by classes
Attendance averaged against services actually held, not against Sundays on a calendar
Baptisms, confirmations, weddings and funerals recorded the week they happen
Income split by tithe, offering and any fund you keep
Ready to print or save as PDF for the presiding elder and conference

Who sees the giving

The minister, an administrator and a finance officer. Nobody else. A class leader can keep their own people and record attendance without ever opening the giving records, and that is enforced by the database itself rather than by hiding a menu item.

Each church's records are separated from every other church's in the same way. Under the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843) your church is a data controller and must register with the Data Protection Commission, and choosing software that separates records properly is part of meeting that duty.