Identify contacts not currently serving
When considering healthy discipleship or recruiting potential volunteers, it may be helpful to identify those not currently serving. Churches and other organisations often want to communicate serving opportunities and promote the fellowship found in serving teams. Alongside the Rotas module reports that help identify and manage serving engagement and intended to stimulate healthy conversation, we've provided two helpful reports in the Rotas module: Not in a Ministry and Not on a Rota.
Children, rotas and reports
While children in your Children module can, of course, serve in ministries and be added to rotas, the Not in a Ministry and Not on a Rota reports only include Address Book contacts in the results.
However, "inclusive/in" reports, such as Ministry Members, Multi-Ministry Members, and the rotas Overview report, do include children in those report results. Children are distinguished by a child icon next to their names.
Not in a Ministry report
Sometimes, people may be members of a team in a ministry but may not be on a current or future rota, perhaps because they've finished all their serving dates on the rota or they're having a break for a season. So, while technically they are not on a rota, they are nevertheless still a ministry member. The Not in a Ministry report identifies those people who are not assigned to an active ministry (including people in archived ministries but not in any other active ministries) and will, therefore, be included in report results.
Helpful statistics show the % of Address Book contacts in a ministry and not in a ministry for the site being viewed. This report can be further filtered by Tags, perhaps to exclude those in a 'Newcomer' tag or, due to the nature of a role, you want to filter non-ministry members in a 'Members' tag. You can select one or more Tags to filter on, even inverting a tag to filter people not in a tag. Click Generate to apply the filter and see the matching report results.
From this report, you might optionally create a tag of the matching contacts in the results - click Add to tag. You can also Communicate directly from the report to everyone in the report's results - perhaps sending a message letting people know about serving opportunities within your church.
Or you can Download the list of people to a CSV or PDF file for further review.
Not on a Rota report
Let's begin by defining who is considered a rota member. Rota members are deemed to be:
- Those in a Ministry team, whether or not they are scheduled to serve on an active or future rota, irrespective of whether the ministry is archived or active.
- Any ad hoc people who are not part of a ministry but who have been added to a rota and who have one or more future serving dates remaining on a rota. Once their last ad hoc serving date has passed, they are no longer considered a rota member.
- Anyone designated as a ministry overseer.
Using this definition, the Not on a Rota report will list all Address Book contacts that are not currently classed as rota members.
The report can be further filtered for a past calendar month to identify contacts that have not been on a rota From the 1st of the selected calendar month. The report can also be further filtered to only show those in select Tags; you can also add those in the report's results to a tag - click Add to tag, and you can Communicate directly from the report to all those shown in the results.
