{"id":134,"date":"2014-07-08T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:21:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:21:54","slug":"church-metrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/08\/church-metrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchmetrics.com\" target=\"_blank\">Church Metrics<\/a> is undoubtedly one of my favorite resources. It&#8217;s a free tool, compliments of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifechurch.tv\" target=\"_blank\">LifeChurch.tv<\/a> that helps you easily track your church&#8217;s key metrics such as salvations, baptisms, first time guests, attendance, giving, etc. You can track anything you like and then easily create helpful <strong>reports<\/strong> or <strong>charts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of one <strong>report<\/strong> I receive each week. I set it up so each Tuesday I get a snap shot of the last six weeks (click the picture to enlarge).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/10.10.40.91:3400\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/report.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-136 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/10.10.40.91:3400\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/report-300x222.png\" alt=\"report\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of an attendance <strong>chart<\/strong> I can view when signed in to www.churchmetrics.com (you can chart any key metric you&#8217;ve entered data for &#8211; not just attendance).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/10.10.40.91:3400\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-02-at-9.06.04-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-135\" src=\"http:\/\/10.10.40.91:3400\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-02-at-9.06.04-PM-300x163.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-07-02 at 9.06.04 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s what the free iPhone app looks like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/10.10.40.91:3400\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/iPhone.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138\" src=\"http:\/\/10.10.40.91:3400\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/iPhone-169x300.png\" alt=\"iPhone\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s five reasons why I like Church Metrics so much:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It only takes me a couple seconds to see a snapshot of the health of our church.<\/li>\n<li>It allows me to easily access good information that helps me make better decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Because it&#8217;s web based and comes with an app, my staff have access to this same information so they can make good decisions.<\/li>\n<li>It makes it easy to create visually appealing charts for presentations (i.e. our annual volunteer appreciation dinner or annual board meeting).<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s free!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If this is something you would benefit from, you can\u00a0register for a free account by <a href=\"https:\/\/churchmetrics.com\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church Metrics is undoubtedly one of my favorite resources. It&#8217;s a free tool, compliments of LifeChurch.tv that helps you easily track your church&#8217;s key metrics such as salvations, baptisms, first time guests, attendance, giving, etc. You can track anything you like and then easily create helpful reports or charts. Here&#8217;s an example of one report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-resources","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mike","author_link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/author\/mike\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}