A Baptist church whose pastor logs every visit and prayer request
The church
A Baptist church of about 1,800 people, with Planning Center connected. Seven months on CareNote.
What they set out to do
Keep one searchable record of every visit and every prayer request, so the pastoral history survives a change of staff.
How it works now
The pastor visits constantly and writes each one up: general visits, hospital visits, home visits, close to a hundred of them in seven months. Prayer requests are logged the same way, against the person who asked, so the next conversation can start where the last one ended.
Anything that needs picking up again is flagged for follow-up, which brings it back around instead of leaving it to memory. Formal care requests are available and have been used, and every one of them was closed, but the log is what carries this ministry. That is a complete way to use CareNote. The request queue is waiting if the volume ever arrives.
What it takes
Two paid seats and the habit of writing it down.
By the numbers
- 222
- pastoral touchpoints recorded in seven months
- 96
- visits logged, fourteen of them last month
- 52
- prayer requests recorded
- 2
- paid seats running the whole thing
Is this your church?
If you are a pastor who visits constantly, you need one place to record it, searchable by person, that outlasts you. Two seats buys exactly that.
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