|
"Finally, a church
database that can meet
the
unique needs
of your church!!"
"Our
decision to implement Faithworks at
Churchlands has
brought immediate
improvements in communication,
teamwork, and
pastoral care. Faithworks is proving
to be
an affordable and flexible
database solution - and best of all,
it's
designed for Australian churches! Following
up newcomers,
tracking spiritual
growth, and producing a variety of useful
reports is now easier than ever.
Faithworks also helps
cut costs by cleverly
integrating mail merges and email.
Angelo's support is excellent, and I'm
pleased to recommend
this great product for
any size church."
Steve
Dennis,
Churchlands
Christian Fellowship, WA,
Australia
From:
Angelo Antonino ,
creator of Faithworks
Greetings,
After receiving word from
God about using my database programming skills to help
churches, I went out and spoke to 7 different churches
about what they needed from a church database.
What I found was that
every church has special
unique needs, and as churches grow, their
software needs
may change. Whether it was specific reports, or specific
fields of information, their existing database systems
could not accommodate them.
"I'm
finding the more I use it and become familiar with it,
the easier it
has become, and now I'm finding it very user friendly.
Thank you
so much for creating a database that is
easy to
use and church specific. Again thank you very
much for all
your help and I look forward to when
I need to
upgrade to your larger database"
Jo Breen,
Admin/Finance,
Compass Church,
Vic, Australia
Right then I decided that
the best possible solution for a church was to have a
system that was
fully
customisable. That's when I began developing
Faithworks, a Microsoft Access database solution
that you actually get, complete with source code.
And don't think you have
to be a programmer, to benefit from Faithworks. Simply
put, the format you receive it in enables you to easily
enough do basic things such as create your own
reports, and add additional fields if you need them.
"If we don’t get organised, people won’t be cared for. Every person
who attends church is important enough for us to get organised.
Faithworks is a powerful application
that helps you to track people,
get reports, generate individual contact lists and reports for leaders,
identify people with common needs to target church programmes
to, and can auto-email information to the right people."
Wayne Back, Associate Pastor
CCC Whitehorse,
Vic, Australia
I have to point out
however, that as Faithworks is already jam-packed
full of friendly features, most churches don't even have
any need for customisations (at least initially).
Let me tell you about
some of it's fantastic, easy-to-use features:
-
Group people
according to leadership areas, giftings, training,
skills, or any other reason you like. For example you
could keep track of who you sent an invitation out to.
-
A fully featured
cell group section, where you can place cell
groups into two categories. For example a cell group
could have a Category1 of "Youth Group" and a
Category2 of "Prayer Group". This enables you to
easily send an email (or post letters) to everyone who
is in a "Prayer Group", or anyone who is in a "Youth
Group". And, of course, you can keep track of meetings
of groups, and who attends them.
-
Through a People Search
feature you can easily extract everyone in the
database that meets your entered criteria (e.g. all
members who are married, and who do not attend a cell
group), and then easily send them an email, or arrange
a mail merge.
"Investigation by one of our congregation
who is a software
development manager, proved she could find
no reason
in
using any other package for our needs"
Jan
Davies, Beachway
Vineyard Christian Fellowship
WA, Australia
All you need to enjoy the
benefits of Faithworks are the following: (these are the
minimum computing requirements)
-
IBM
compatible PC running at 600MHZ or
faster, with at least 128MB RAM
-
Microsoft
Windows 2000 (or greater) operating system
-
Microsoft Office XP/2002 (or greater)
Professional. Both Microsoft Access and
Microsoft Outlook are
required to be installed.
What also sets Faithworks
apart from other church software products, is that once you
become a registered user of Faithworks, you are entitled
to free
upgrades. The latest changes are published on this
website, and the latest version is available on request
by email.
Any if you are
wondering about support, I offer free email
support. Simply send me an email with your
query or questions and I'll get back to you.
"Angelo
Antonino has been a great help, is always
courteous
and friendly and nothing
is ever too much trouble.
We would highly
recommend this program to any
church
thinking of upgrading their database
system."
Wendy
Jones,
Faithland
Christian Church, Vic, Australia
Oh, and if you need a hand with the
transfer of data from your current
database into Faithworks, contact me to see
how I can help. I will need to charge for my
time, but the cost may not be as much as you
think. It depends on the format of your
current data.
"After
looking for over 2 years (yes that's not a
typo!) for an
appropriate data base for our
growing church we decided
to write our
own...Much harder than we first thought!
During
the process a friend mentioned that
their church was purchasing
an Aussie made
Data base that was fully customisable
for
your own unique purposes - Hence our
purchase of Faithworks"
Scott
Vawser,
Whitford
Church of Christ, WA,
Australia
"We would
gladly recommend Faithworks to any church
organization that needs an intelligent and
easy to use
database system"
Peter
Menhennit,
Careforce Church Mt. Evelyn, Vic,
Australia
100%
unconditional 30 day
money back
guarantee !!
Because I know you won't
be disappointed, I offer you a100% unconditional, 30-day money back guarantee. If you're not satisfied with
Faithworks in the first 30 days of using it, you can
delete it, and I'll give you your money back.
If you want to know some
of the churches that have bought and believe in
Faithworks, here they are:
|
Agape Lighthouse Fellowship, NSW, Australia
Bairnsdale
AOG, VIC, Australia
Berwick
Church of Christ, VIC, Australia
Bracken
Ridge Baptist Church, QLD, Australia
Careforce
Church, Mt Evelyn,
VIC,
Australia
Christian City Church Beachway, WA,
Australia
Christan City Church
South Burnett, QLD, Australia
Christian
City Church
Whitehorse, VIC, Australia
Christian Life Centre, Johannesburg,
South Africa
Christ
Church St Laurence, NSW, Australia
Christ
our Holy Redeemer Parish, VIC,
Australia
Churchlands
Christian Fellowship, WA, Australia
Clontarf
Beach Baptist Church, QLD, Australia
Coastal Cathedral Church of God,
North Carolina,
USA
Compass
Church, VIC, Australia
Destiny
Church Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Faithland
Christian
Church, VIC, Australia
Faithworks Christian Church, SA,
Australia
Griffith Uniting Church, NSW, Australia
Harbourside Church, Auckland,
New Zealand
Holy
Spirit Parish, VIC, Australia
Ipswitch Baptist Church,
QLD, Australia
Kew
Baptist, VIC, Australia
Knox
Christian Life Centre, VIC, Australia |
Launceston
Christian Fellowship, TAS, Australia
Lifeway Church, Auckland,
New Zealand
Mackay Community Lutheran Church, QLD
Australia
Mandurah
Community Church of Christ, WA,
Australia
Maroondah
City Church, VIC,
Australia
Mt Hawthorn Baptist Church, WA,
Australia
New
Hope Church, QLD,
Australia
North
Eastern Vineyard Church, SA,
Australia
Life Church, Christchurch,
New
Zealand
Padstow Baptist Church, NSW, Australia
Paravista Lutheran Church, SA,
Australia
St.
Francis in the Fields Mooroolbark, VIC,
Australia
St. Peters Anglican Chuch, NSW, Australia
St. Peters Episcopal Church,
Pennsylvania,
USA
St.
Paul's Lutheran Church, SA, Australia
St.
Stephens Anglican Church, VIC, Australia
South
Melbourne City Church, VIC, Australia
South
Perth Church of Christ, WA, Australia
The
Melbourne Worship Centre,
VIC,
Australia
Warwick
Church of Christ, WA, Australia
Westside
Christian Centre, VIC, Australia
Winepress Berwick AOG, VIC,
Australia
Whitford
Church of Christ,
WA,
Australia |
|
FULL
TESTIMONIALS |
|
"I oversee the pastoral department of Christian City Church Whitehorse, a 1000 plus and growing church in Melbourne.
Every church that wants to grow past 200 people somehow needs to find a way to organise its administration of
people.
"Growth, evangelism and the expansion of the church depend as much on a leader’s ability to develop an expansive infrastructure as on any other factor except prayer . . . The church that grows beyond the 200 barrier is the church that decides to minister to its people in a comprehensive organisation rather than a family-type fellowship". (Bill M. Sullivan, Ten Steps to Breaking the 200 Barrier)
If we don’t get organised, people won’t be cared for.
Every person who attends church is important enough for us to get organised. Faithworks is a powerful application
that helps you to track people, get reports, generate individual contact lists and reports for leaders, identify people with common needs to target church programmes to, and can auto-email information to the right people.
Because they know that the nature of your people administration is a reflection of your vision, the people from Tanzanite are
readily available to design Faithworks to suit your unique ministry situation."
Wayne Back
Associate Pastor
CCC Whitehorse
|
|
"We
decided to purchase Faithworks because of
the ease of use features it contained. Of
course we had to transfer our old data into
the new application and Tanzanite Software
Solutions gave us some wonderful assistance
and all went very smoothly, in one morning
we had the new system up and running.
Installing the software on different Windows
platforms has proven to be one of the
easiest tasks we have had to perform. Quick
and simple with no problems rearing their
ugly little heads.
Our
staff members are delighted with how quickly
they can retrieve information from
Faithworks. One particular user is thrilled
with how quickly she can produce sheets of
self-adhesive labels, in fact she claims
that we have given her an extra couple of
hours each week. Others are now starting
to realise that they too can achieve these
sorts of savings with a minimum of fuss.
Having
full and unhindered access to the database
is allowing us to easily create queries from
a wide range of desktop products, our old
system was effectively out-of-bounds to all
but the developers. Tanzanite Software
Solutions have sensibly allowed us (the
owners of the data) full access to it at any
time.
We
would gladly recommend Faithworks to any
church organization that needs an
intelligent and easy to use database
system."
Peter
Menhennit
Careforce
Church, Mt Evelyn
Vic,
Australia
|
|
"Faithworks is a great product - thanks
Angelo!. Our church had a number of seperate
databases running and this was creating
problems with duplication of data and
associated lack of control over data entry,
and the time-consuming task of tracking
people's involvement in the different
ministries and small groups of the church. I
heard of Faithworks through users at a
couple of other churches in Perth and was
very impressed with it's built-in functions
and ability/ease to customise. We have been
running with the package now since 2004, now
having 1100+ people 'on the books', with
only needing to tweak it slightly to suit
our different ministry and group needs"
Connell Maskrey
Minister
(Community Groups & Life Streams)
South Perth
Church of Christ
WA,
Australia
|
|
"After
looking for over 2 years (yes that's not a
typo!) for an appropriate data base for our
growing church we decided to write our
own...Much harder than we first thought!
During the process a friend mentioned that
their church was purchasing an Aussie made
Data base that was fully customisable for
your own unique purposes - Hence our
purchase of Faithworks.
The
help desk (in Angelo, the producer of the
programme) is fantastic, instant advice,
regular updates and emails regarding changes
and he has even worked with us to make some
unique changes for our purposes.
One
way Faithworks is improving the
administration in our church is in the area
of follow up. Each week all the pastors and
care team receive a report of people to
follow up and the reason for the follow-up,
all their contact details etc. The great
thing is that you can track an individuals
history in follow up to determine if there
are any recurring issues etc. You can
see when they first visited the church, and
track their maturity and journey through
various programmes and classes in the
church."
Scott
Vawser
Whitford
Church of Christ
WA,
Australia
|
|
"Our
decision to implement Faithworks at
Churchlands has brought immediate
improvements in communication, teamwork, and
pastoral care. Faithworks is proving
to be an affordable and flexible
database solution--and best of all, its
designed for Australian churches! Following
up newcomers, tracking spiritual
growth, and producing a variety of useful
reports is now easier than ever.
Faithworks also helps cut costs by cleverly
integrating mail merges and email.
Angelo's support is excellent, and I'm
pleased to recommend this great product for
any size church."
Steve
Dennis
Churchlands
Christian Fellowship
WA,
Australia |
|
"Beachway
Vineyard Christian Fellowship was introduced
to Faithworks during 2002 after several
recommendations from neighbouring churches.
Investigation by one of our congregation
who is a software development manager,
proved she could find no reason in using any
other package for our needs.
So impressed, she covered the cost.
All our relevant information has been
entered and we are in the process of compiling
reports and directories using the data
base. This has been slow only because
of the need for staff to gain a better
knowledge of MS Access and other demands on
time. The possibilities are endless
and we are looking forward to seeing how our
administration can benefit further. Working
with Faithworks, we have been able to
make suggestions which have since
been incorporated. It is encouraging to
have Angelo only an email or phone call
way as our support system. We look
forward to a long an enjoyable relationship
with Faithworks. It certainly does"
Jan
Davies
Administrator
Christian City Church Beachway
Osborne
Park, WA, Australia
|
|
"Faithland
had been using an antiquated database system
which was inadequate
for our needs and we began looking around
for something more suitable. Then one
day out of the blue we had a call from
Angelo about his very own database
software package. Faithworks is a most
comprehensive, user friendly,
colourful, church attendance database. It
has loads of features and lets you
keep track of any member or first time
visitor with follow up action,
as well as their spiritual growth. You can
keep track of individuals birthdays
and anniversaries, cell group and meeting
attendance and it's also upgradeable to your own church requirements. It has mail
merge features using MS Word,
printing of address labels, which makes
life a breeze when
there is a particular mail out event.
We
have just updated to the newer version and
are looking forward to
reaping the benefits of the internet
feature of cell group attendance. It has
been a great help in keeping our
attendance records, baptisms, dedications
and more, up to date.
Angelo
Antonino has been a great help, is always
courteous and friendly and
nothing is ever too much trouble.
We would highly recommend this program to
any church thinking of
upgrading their database system."
Wendy
Jones
Faithland
Christian Church
Donvale,
Vic, Australia |
What is Faithworks
worth?
Because Faithworks comes
complete with the source code, the real value of the
product is probably over $20,000. That's
how much it would cost to get a professional software
developer to create Faithworks.
But don't worry, that's
not how much you need to pay for it. You get the full
value of Faithworks for a fraction of that price.
To make Faithworks more
affordable for smaller churches, your price of
Faithworks depends on how many individuals you need to
store in the database.
-
To store up to 100
individuals, you pay only $177*
-
To store up to 300
individuals, you pay only $300*
-
To store up to 750
individuals, you pay only $500*
-
To store an unlimited
amount of individuals, you pay only $1000*
(*Australian Dollars,
excludes GST, subject to change at any time without
notice)
Remember,
Faithworks is a premium product, in a league of it's own.
Download Evaluation Version
Here
To learn about another
great feature of Faithworks called Online Cell Group
Reporting
click here.
Finally, don't forget
that I'm here to serve you and make your life easier. If
you have ANY questions, absolutely anything, please send
me an email (click on the signature below).
Sincerely,
Angelo
Angelo Antonino
__________________________________________________________________________
Some Worthwhile
Links...
http://www.church-software-plus.com/best-church-software.htm
|
