Plaid seeks to be the best tool for ministry in the world

Individuals and ministry teams want to follow up with new people and meet the felt needs of their members. The problem is that often software and technology gets in the way. In fact, software is traditionally a burden.

Instead, we designed Plaid to serve the core tasks of communicating and tracking in ministry. We have two guiding principles:

#1 We want to make it easy to organize and use contact lists.

The first part of this process is to make it quick to add and update contact information. It must simple to get the information off a handwritten form and into a database. This needs to be painless and even fun. Once contact information is in the system, we want to make it easy organize and use.

Plaid allows teams to collaborate in the process of organizing their lists. Maybe you want to build an ad hoc list, or create list that will be used every week for a year. All lists created in Plaid can be used. Maybe you want to send an email reminder to 44 people about Vacation Bible School, create a map for the youth van driver or print out a call sheet for a small group leader.

Plaid will help you get things done and get out of the way. We will not add work to the already daunting task of the ministry.

#2 We want to give individuals and teams new ways to feel good about their ministry.

The under-appreciated truth is that ministry is hard and your service is often un-rewarded. What makes ministry even harder is the added expectation that you are supposed to be okay with that…

Well, we believe that you do a great job and although churches sometimes do forget to recognize your work; we want to build software that will value your service.

The sad fact is that too many of you are burnt-out or indifferent about ministry. We want Plaid to help you feel good about what you do.

And we are going to to this better than any ChMS in history. We are not spending time building attendance or giving reports. We are going to help you visualize your interactions with people. Then we are going to give you a chance to see what the “Plaid Nation” is doing.

Without revealing private information, we are going to show in real time what is happening across all the ministries using Plaid. We are going to create an experience where you feel good, feel confident and feel connected to something much bigger.

In the end, our goal is to make people feel good about ministry.

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