Monday, 06 February 2012


Microsoft develops a complete ministry management solution

The world’s largest software manufacturer in conjunction with Ministry Management Solutions,Inc. has created a church management application that offers fast and effective querying of the church data.  It also customizes reporting, data management, member and volunteer management, accounting functionality and comprehensive check in solutions. Since 1990, Microsoft has produced industry leading products that have changed the way our society manages and supports businesses. This new product is an affordable software solution tailored for faith based  organizations. Proclaim is the only totally integrated software solution for churches built on Microsoft Dynamics. Industry leaders are saying Proclaim will offer ministries a compatible platform that will allow them to operate more efficiently and create a new level of accountability.

The  Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform that  was customized by Ministry Management Solutions was launched in April 2007 with an extremely successful beta test with  international ministries in Atlanta , New York and Toronto. Proclaim combines the power of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains to provide a complete solution to churches. The solution provides easy to use screens that look similar and operate within Microsoft Outlook. This makes it easy to bring paid and volunteer staff up to speed quickly with limited training time. Remarkably, the product also can be integrated with other accounting solutions such as ACS and Shelby. All data can be migrated from the previous church management solution to Proclaim.

Proclaim will give you the ability to manage queries and reports upon every aspect of your ministry such as memberships, volunteers ,small groups, events, spiritual growth paths, missions, outreach and contributions.

The web portal allows members and visitors to register for events, purchase books and make contributions on-line. Members can view their contributions and their volunteer schedule. Group leaders can manage their small groups.

Proclaim will also manage church resources such as equipment, room and volunteers with calendars showing their allocation.

Proclaim developer and Ministry Management Solution’s president Bill Walker says “Microsoft spent $300 million dollars developing this application and the results exceeded the expectations of the entire team.

Walker, a 30 year industry veteran, went on to say; “Proclaim gives a ministry the ability to form a relationship with its members, partners and visitors to effectively  “close the back door” and encourage spiritual growth while insuring that church procedural methodology is followed and “nothing falls between the cracks”. The query and report tool allows the executive pastor the ability to review a dashboard of key indicators to insure the church has the greatest impact on the congregation and the community".