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Local Churches
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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.
Local Churches
Resources for Local Churches
MissionInsite provides many documents to assist your church in obtaining the best value out of the resources we provide. All of these documents can be downloaded for reading on your computer or printing. To download, simply click on the document title.
Interpretation and Application Resources
Introduction to MissionInsite
Need a brief resource that tells about MissionInsite and its products and services? Download and print this document.
How to Create a Report
Use this document for a quick overview on how to generate a report using the MI System
QuickInsite Workshop
This document will assist users in unpacking the information found on the QuickInsite Report. Download it from here. It can be used to either provide a personal guide through the report or as a guide for a workshop with others.
Religious Research Data
MissionInsite from time to time is asked about the availability of recent religious data. ARDA (The Association of Religion and Data Archives) is well known for providing such information at the county level. It is the most current source of religious data available. County level reports on a broad array of variables can be easily obtained. Click on this link to go to the page for ordering county data. Web link for religious data ARDA.
Reference Guides to MissionInsite Demographic Data
Applied Geographic Solutions (AGS) Demographic Updates Methodology Guide
MissionInsite obtains its annual demographic updates and five year projections from Applied Geographic Solutions (AGS). Download this document to read about their updating methodology.
MI Demographic Reference Guide
There are dozens of demographic variables available from MissionInsite. This easy to use guide presents each variable with a definition. Many of the variables are those collected by the Census Bureau and then updated by AGS or MissionInsite. Variables derived from the Census Bureau include definitions released by the Bureau.
MI Demographic Segments Guide: Quick Look
(MOSAIC) This is a summary guide to the 60 Mosaic Types and Groups. Use this guide when you want to quickly look up a one page summary of any of the 12 groups or 60 types that fall under one of the groups.
MI Demographic Segments Guide: Detail Look
(MOSAIC) This guide (over 1000 pages) provides extensive detail data on each of the 60 Mosaic types. Developed by Experian, the guide is organized by Group facilitating easy location. HINT: Use the page outline feature in Adobe PDF Reader to find the desired type.
Interactive Multimedia Guide to Mosaic USA by Experian
Download this interactive guide and discover a wealth of insight into each of the Mosaic Groups and Types. This guide, coupled with the Mosaic data will powerfully enhance a user's understanding of the story behind the numbers. (Please note: This multimedia file from Experian only runs in Internet Explorer, v5 or higher.)
Using the MI System—Churches Part of a Denominational Agency Agreement
Some churches are MI System users as part of a regional or national denominational agency. The process of registering and accessing the system is defined by that relationship. These resources will assist such users in getting started.
MI Local Church User Guide
This document will assist a local church that is part of a denominational agency register for the MI System and begin using its features. It will work well with the Tutorials that follow.
Local Church Getting Started Tutorial (HTML version)
Note: To reduce the size of viewing window in your browser, use 'Ctrl -' (Control key and the minus sign) to reduce the size of the browser window, allowing a fuller view of the video.
Local Church Getting Started Tutorial (Flash version)
Note: Not all computers have been configured to handle 'Flash' files. If you can not get this file to open, click on the HTML version above.
Guides in the Use of Congregant Plot
These instructions on the use of Congregant Plot are applicable to both Denominational agency churches and churches who have subscribed to this service independently. Both require a username and password to get into the MI System and if a Congregant Plot subscription has been created, the user will have set up both.
MI Local Church Congregant Data Instruction Packet
This document provides detailed instructions for preparing congregant data files and uploading them into the MI System.
Congregant File Upload Instructions
This document will provide instructions about the format of a congregant data file. The formatting must be carefully followed.
Basic Congregant File Upload Template
This is a sample template and may be used to capture the basic data necessary for uploading congregants without any of the additional data fields that can be added.
Other Helpful Utilities
FastStone Capture
Download a free version of FastStone capture. This is the most powerful yet user friendly screen capture program we have found. Use it to capture images and paste them into Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Visit the FastStone website at www.faststone.org for more information or other programs from FastStone.