Frequently asked questions
GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT MOBILYZR
FORTHCOMING FAQ SECTIONS:
- Creating your mobilyzr account
- Account access and login issues
- Maintaining your mobilyzr account
- Other mobilyzr account issues
- Error messages and what to do about them
FORTHCOMING MOBILYZR PRODUCT IMPLEMENTATION GUIDES:
- “mobilyzr Online” Ministry Guide
- “mobilyzr Online” Evaluations
- “mobilyzr Online” Surveys
- PLACE Assessment Tool
- PLACE Volunteer Database
ANSWERS
What is mobilyzr?
“mobilyzr Online” is a complete, integrated process that helps leaders create intentional strategies, systems, and structures for mobilizing members into meaningful ministry. It offers set of online databases, tools, reports, and resources that can be used as stand-alone products, or work seamlessly with other products in the “mobilyzr Online” suite. You can use mobilyzr products to:
- Track members’ ministry involvement.
- Keep in touch with members about ministry dates and details by generating automatic emails.
- Issue customized reports of statistics and trends.
- Survey participants on their Ministry Involvement, Appreciation Preferences, and Equipping Preferences.
- Conduct searches for potential volunteer matches for ministry jobs/tasks.
(An introductory video on mobilyzr is forthcoming.)
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What are the main benefits of the Mobilyzr process?
Mobilyzr gives you a strategy, database, and tracking tools to implement a complete process for connecting God’s people in meaningful ministry. Specifically, it gives you a database with capabilities to:
- Track members’ ministry involvement.
- Keep in touch with members about ministry dates and details by generating automatic emails.
- Issue customized reports of statistics and trends.
- Survey participants on their Ministry Involvement, Appreciation Preferences, and Equipping Preferences.
- Conduct searches for potential volunteer matches for ministry jobs/tasks.
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How does the mobilyzr process benefit volunteers, leaders, and organizations?
Like “life planning” for ministries, the mobilyzr process offers a complete and integrated approach to member assimilation/mobilization, with important benefits to different groups:
- For volunteers: Mobilyzr integrates character development, biblical worldview expansion, and ministry involvement. Volunteers are better coached while serving in “best fit” ministries that match who God made them to be.
- For leaders: Mobilyzr guides leaders through “systems thinking” for strategic ministry in church and community. It gives a process to create “best fit” structures for connecting disciples to meaningful ministry. It also gives frameworks for creating teams, supervising people, and optimizing systems.
- For churches, ministries, and agencies: Mobilyzr helps “close the back door” in comprehensive ways that increase the number of capable volunteers, maintain their involvement, and reduce ministry burnout. It expands on typical features of other Church Management Software systems without attempting to automate what needs to be left to people’s discernment of the Spirit’s leading. It also gives periodic research updates on trends, resources, and skills for sustainable ministry.
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How can mobilyzr help leaders focus on strength-based ministry?
“mobilyzr Online” uses a systems-oriented approach to assimilating volunteers into ministry. The mobilyzr evaluation instruments, online databases, tools, reports, and resources work together as a set. This lets them cover larger areas of ministry needs together than they would be able to do individually (though each one as a stand-alone product can still improve multiple aspects of your ministry). So, it is designed to raise the health level of all components within the system, instead of focusing on fixing just this or that part.
When used completely and consistently, the mobilyzr.com’s system should improve the overall health and longevity of your church, ministry, or agency:
- Assess levels and locations of vulnerability in current ministry strategies and structures.
- Create and implement a complete, integrated design process for developing sustainability in your volunteer assimilation system.
- Revise your discipleship systems to improve your flexibility in equipping people and in creating better long-term viability by producing/reproducing next generations of leaders.
- Mobilize disciples into ministries with better applicability to their spiritual gifts, natural strengths, and ministry passions.
- Track members’ involvement in both church and community to consider the overall visibility of the organization, and potential availability of volunteers to serve in existing ministries or help inaugurate new ones.
- Communicate with ministry team members more easily and regularly about schedules and other details by generating automatic emails.
- Create customized evaluation reports, and incorporate more and better accountability measurements into your strategic plan development processes.
- Keep more future-ready by infusing its “holistic paradigm” into your organization’s systems, since society is generally moving in the direction of that paradigm.
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How can mobilyzr help make our organization more "healthy”?
"mobilyzr Online” uses a systems-oriented approach to assimilating volunteers into ministry. The mobilyzr evaluation instruments, online databases, tools, reports, and resources work together as a set. This lets them cover larger areas of ministry needs together than they would be able to do individually (though each one as a stand-alone product can still improve multiple aspects of your ministry). So, it is designed to raise the health level of all components within the system, instead of focusing on fixing just this or that part.
When used completely and consistently, the mobilyzr.com’s system should improve the overall health and longevity of your church, ministry, or agency:
- Assess levels and locations of vulnerability in current ministry strategies and structures.
- Create and implement a complete, integrated design process for developing sustainability in your volunteer assimilation system.
- Revise your discipleship systems to improve your flexibility in equipping people and in creating better long-term viability by producing/reproducing next generations of leaders.
- Mobilize disciples into ministries with better applicability to their spiritual gifts, natural strengths, and ministry passions.
- Track members’ involvement in both church and community to consider the overall visibility of the organization, and potential availability of volunteers to serve in existing ministries or help inaugurate new ones.
- Communicate with ministry team members more easily and regularly about schedules and other details by generating automatic emails.
- Create customized evaluation reports, and incorporate more and better accountability measurements into your strategic plan development processes.
- Keep more future-ready by infusing its "holistic paradigm” into your organization’s systems, since society is generally moving in the direction of that paradigm.
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How does mobilyzr apply in different "models” of being/doing church?
The “mobilyzr Online” system is purpose-specific (i.e., “Move members into meaningful ministry”). However, it is not methodological-model-specific. So, whatever form an organization takes, “mobilyzr Online” systems can help if its functions include utilizing volunteers for service. Its application will prove useful to small churches and large, to small-group networks and house church networks, churches and Kingdom enterprises, non-profits agencies and ministry associations.
The “mobilyzr Online” system gives a general understanding of a complete volunteer mobilization process, and practical suggestions for organizational structures to implement that process. You can use the tools and resources to customize your mobilization process for your own setting, strategies, and structures. For instance:
- Direction or stage of church development (plateaued, declining, turnaround, transitioning, new church plant or Kingdom enterprise).
- Kind or size of church/ministry (micro-church, mega-church, cell-based, ministry team).
- Health of church – specific areas of strength and challenges in the six elements of mobilization (i.e., areas within each element that are missing and need to be added, that are deficient and need to be improved, and are robust and need to be sustained).
- Different ways of organizing ministry positions and roles (for instance, centralized/decentralized, team-based/job-based).
- Primary centers of activity and differing levels of ministry: inside the church and in the community.
This combination of general principles and customizing recommendations allows you to think through your strategy and adapt mobilyzr for your unique situation, and to match its features to the priorities, plans, and timelines that fit your needs.
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Where can I find out more information about the company that produces mobilyzr?
Check the websites of MDC Today, the foundation that developed PLACE Ministries (spiritual gift assessment tools and related products for ministry identification systems), Setting the PACE (tools for developing purposeful vision for life and ministry), and mobilyzr Online (products for a complete, integrated ministry mobilization process).
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