First Annual MissionInsite User’s Conference SeriesLed by Chuck Salter and Peter Wernett of the MissionInsite Team Discover how to get the most out of the MI System to support your ministry planning. |
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First Annual MissionInsite User’s Conference Series
Discover how to get the most out of the MI System to support your ministry planning.
Church Agencies
Our Discovery Packages are useful to virtually all denominational staff members tasked with overseeing and/or implementing congregational development efforts, including:
- facilities and budget planners
- church planting
- church transformation
- mergers
- closures
- relocations
Products for Church Agencies
Tier One: Basic Community Demographic Package
The Basic Community Demographic Package provides the regional agency and its churches access to The MI System discovery tools and the full range of demographic information built into The MI System. This package includes the following features:
- Dynamic Area Analysis Tools See an example
- Demographics: Census, Calendar year and 5 Yr Projections
- Opportunity Scan: Quickly find and locate mission opportunities See below for a description
- Church location plotting and mapping See an example
- Demographic theme mapping See an example
- Tools to create maps and reports See an example
- Standard Aerial Photography
Opportunity Scan
This new feature allows agency users to scan any geographic area within their bounds by county, zip code, census tract or census block group and by most demographic variables in the system. This innovative new tool from MissionInsite will allow you to move from the high view of your region to a neighborhood view in seconds as you seek to identify new mission or church opportunities or simply find where there is high or low concentrations of a particular target population. It also will give you an immediate analysis of an agency’s church to population ratio. Users can zoom in on an area and assess where the population per church is above the agency average and where it is below. Because it is dynamic, a user is not restricted to set geographic scan areas or geographic units. See an example
Advanced System Add-On Options
Custom Plotting—People or Places: Additional features or people can be plotted. For example, a list of churches from other denominations can be geocoded and added to the MI System and displayed in the system. Additionally, with proper permissions, congregants from another denominational agency could be displayed next to actual congregants. Other custom plots might include social service agencies, schools, hospitals, church day school or pre-school students, etc. A fee for loading these features and making changes would be assessed. This is available for both Tier One and Tier Two Packages.
High Quality Aerial Imagery: While standard imagery is included in the system, regional agencies can choose to add higher quality aerial imagery where it is available. However, there is an additional charge to have access to these photographs.