MissionConnect
United Methodist conferences run clergy, church, and office data here. Conference staff work in the applications below. Local churches use Church Reporting and Ministry Financials.
The applications district and conference staff open every week.
Records
The record for professional clergy, laity, committees, and local church leadership. Compensation tracking for the conference lives here, with the rest of the data district and conference staff use. The current release is built around simpler navigation and content management.
Reports
View or print formatted reports from across the database, and export the same data to a spreadsheet when the office needs to work with it outside MissionConnect.
Outreach
Build a list from leadership roles, geography, churches, or other criteria, then send email, print labels and envelopes, or export a spreadsheet.
Cabinet
Cabinet decision support: clergy data compiled in one place, plus customized profiles and assessments for charges, churches, and pastors.
Access
Assign who can open each application, form, and field, including read-only, read-write, or no access. Password management is here too.
Benefits
Benefits management and billing for CRSP/CPP, medical, life, flexible benefits, UMPIP, vision, dental, H.S.A., Medicare Part D, and other plans a conference requires.
Finance
Manage apportionments, funds, and projects, including billing and receiving. A report file can be exported and uploaded to the General Board of Global Ministries.
Insurance
Property and liability insurance management and billing for churches.
Churches enter their own data and payments so the conference does not retype it.
Church portal
Churches enter the information the district and conference used to collect by hand, which keeps that work out of the office. Four pieces sit under this umbrella:
Year-end statistical reporting that follows conference forms. Tables 1, 2, and 3, plus custom tables for conference-specific questions.
Leadership positions, tenure, and contact information. District and conference staff see the same records in Center.
Charge conference forms completed online and available to the district and conference. Can include a clergy profile and a church profile completed by the SPRC chair.
Churches enter compensation here. Center already tracks compensation for the conference. This is the church-side entry, not a separate conference application.
Payments
Churches sign in to see apportionments or tithe amounts, special giving, and benefits billing and payments. They can pay by ACH through Vanco. Remittances can be traditional apportionments or a tithe model, where the church enters income and the amount is calculated.