Community
Arena is designed around the elements necessary to build
community: Communication,
Coordination, Connection and Creativity. Because the Arena philosophy is people-oriented,
it begins with the end in mind – empowering the church.
Communication
Arena’s close-the-back door approach provides excellent communication features.
Contact and track communication to associates, members, guests, and your extended
field of influence.
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Effortlessly send e-mails (automated, bulk, or individual);
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Easily create and organize calling campaigns;
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Organize and execute bulk mailing projects;
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Easily keep conversation and reminder notes;
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Monitor
attendance and
spiritual health indicators for simple and timely follow-up;
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Obtain important
small group, serving, and ministry information quickly and effortlessly.
Coordination
Arena brings order, automation, and structure to your ministry endeavors. All-in-one
capabilities streamline the entire front office to back office environment,
encouraging total church participation. Create self-running ministries requiring
minimal staff supervision and encouraging volunteer participation. No more repetitive
tasks. Supervision is made easy by automated team activity tracking.
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Metrics and
sub metrics are easily created and tracked;
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Applications and registrations are processed via the web;
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Information can be
exported to Excel®, Word®, Outlook®, and bulk mailings.
Connection
Because Arena is a ministry system and a
web authoring tool, it seamlessly connects your management database with
your ministry tools.
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Connects everyone (church, members, guests, and your extended field of influence)
with promotional events and communications;
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Website campaigns are super-efficient and automated, saving time administrating,
publishing, and tracking;
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You enjoy the connectivity, security, and stability of the most widely used
programming technologies; Microsoft’s SQL® and .NET® framework;
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The option of integrating Shelby System’s Financial Suite provides database
continuity and integrity of data;
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You are free to choose the hosting option that best suits you. True to Shelby
philosophy, your data is yours.
Creativity
Creativity flourishes in a fun, flexible, and collaborative environment.
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This chameleon-like user interface is completely customizable, enabling
you to achieve more cohesive communication and branding;
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Because Arena is truly user-friendly, you spend less time and energy on
training, supervision, and task execution, leaving more time and energy
for creativity, inspiration, and growing your ministry;
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Arena provides unlimited growth potential as your ministry system and design
needs expand;
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The system is flexible to your church needs, preferences, procedures, and
ministry approach;
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Quickly bring an idea to reality using Arena’s built-in promotion tools.
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