A church member directory the secretary can search

What a church member directory is for on a weekday

The phone rings and the question is small: what is their number, are they a member, who else lives in that house. A church member directory answers it from one list. Members, regular attenders and visitors sit together, each with contact details and a membership status, so the secretary is not opening a spreadsheet, a phone and a notebook to assemble one person.

Households keep a family together. You can see who lives with whom without guessing from last names. Custom fields cover the extra facts your church actually tracks, and important dates such as birthdays and anniversaries sit on the person. When someone calls about a gift, a group or an event, that person’s record is the place those pieces meet.

How the office keeps the list current

Create the church account and bring the list you already have. Import a spreadsheet, CSV or Excel, or add people one at a time when a guest fills out a visitor card. Group people into households. Add the fields your church uses and stop keeping a second sheet for the ones ChurchConnect can hold.

Search by name, phone or email when the office phone rings. Staff roles decide who sees the directory and who does not, so a volunteer running check-in is not handed the whole giving history. The same person record is what check-in, groups, events and giving point at. You enter the household once. The other tools read it.

Who it is for

It is for the secretary who is the only person in the office from Tuesday to Thursday. It is for a pastor who wants to know whether the name on a prayer card is a member, a regular or a guest from last month. It is for a small church that has outgrown a shared spreadsheet and does not want a directory that only one person knows how to update.

The directory is part of the Free plan. Visitor follow-up adds a guest into this same list. Small groups and giving records hang off the person, not off a second database. If you are comparing the whole desk, start at the ChurchConnect home page and the church software overview, then come back to the directory as the list everything else uses.

What you get

• A people directory with members, regular attenders and visitors, each with contact details and membership status.
• Households, so a family is kept together and you can see who lives with whom.
• Custom member fields your church defines, plus important dates such as birthdays and anniversaries.
• A spreadsheet import (CSV or Excel) from your current church software.
• Each person’s record linked to their giving history, groups and event activity.
• Staff roles, so each person on staff sees what their job needs.

How it works

1. Create a church account.
2. Import your current list from a spreadsheet, or add people one at a time.
3. Group people into households and add the fields your church tracks.
4. Search by name, phone or email whenever someone calls the office.