Fold for church secretaries
Church software for church secretaries in Ghana
The church secretary keeps the register, writes the minutes, answers the circuit's questions and, every quarter, spends an evening turning a book into a return. Usually as a volunteer, usually alongside a job. Fold was built by watching that evening.
The job as it is
The work is not hard. It is the same counting done again every period from records that were already written down once.
The register lives with you
It is a book in your bag or a spreadsheet on your laptop. When you travel, nobody can check a member's class. When you hand over, it takes the new secretary a year to trust it.
The return is arithmetic done by hand
Members by category, attendance averaged, baptisms this quarter, income by type. Every figure is a count of something already recorded, and every quarter it is counted again.
Nobody tells you about changes
A baptism happened in April and you hear in July. A member transferred in and the letter is in somebody's drawer. The register is only as current as the last person who remembered to tell you.
What changes with Fold
A register several people can keep
Class leaders update their own class, the minister records the baptism, you see it all. One register, always current, never in one bag.
See howThe return produced, not compiled
Membership by category and class, attendance averaged against services actually held, vital records and income by type, for any period, as a PDF for the circuit.
See howYour existing book or spreadsheet imported
Export from Excel, import into Fold, and the register you have kept for years is the register you start with. Nothing retyped.
See howEverything exportable, always
Your records leave as a spreadsheet whenever you ask, so choosing Fold never means being unable to leave it.
See how
Questions church secretaries ask
- Can I keep using my Excel register alongside Fold?
- You can export from Fold to Excel at any time, but two registers drift apart within a month. Import the spreadsheet once, then keep the register in Fold and export when you need a file.
- Does Fold produce the quarterly return in my denomination's format?
- It produces every figure a return asks for, membership by your own categories, attendance, vital records and income by type, for the period you choose, as a printable PDF. The layout is a clean summary rather than a copy of any one denomination's form.
- What happens to the register if I stop being secretary?
- The pastor's account owns the church's records, not yours. Your access is removed, the next secretary is invited, and the register does not move.
Words on this page, defined: church secretary, church register, statistical return, transfer of membership.
Fold for other people in the church
Built for church secretaries, not adapted for them
Thirty days free with your own register, no card, and your records leave as easily as they arrive.