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Elder on duty

Who is the elder on duty this Sunday?

KerkPoint is an online scheduling platform for churches, from €9.99 per month. The church clerk schedules elders and deacons per service, and every office-bearer sees their turns and gets a reminder.

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  1. 1 Fill the open place
  2. 2 The volunteer accepts
  3. 3 Collection purpose set
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Example of a elder on duty schedule: who is scheduled on which Sunday, who still has to respond and which place is still open.

A schedule the church council makes itself

The elder-on-duty schedule is often a document the church clerk sends round once a year. Then the swapping starts: someone is on holiday, someone else has a funeral, and the changes arrive in separate e-mails. By the end of the year nobody knows which version is right.

Office-bearers as a role at the service

In KerkPoint you add the elder and deacon on duty as a role at every service. You see in one overview which services do not have an office-bearer yet. For an extra service, such as a day of prayer or thanksgiving, the role is there straight away.

Shared fairly over the year

Add the elders to the role and let KerkPoint fill the schedule. Everyone takes their turn, and anyone who said they are on holiday is skipped. When someone swaps, the church clerk sees it in the schedule straight away and does not have to send round a new version.

Together with the collection

The deacon on duty often looks after the collection. In KerkPoint you also record the collection goals per service. That way everything that belongs to the service is in one place. Read more under the offering schedule.

Want to arrange the sextons and the music too? See the sexton schedule, the organist schedule or how to create a complete church schedule. Questions about privacy? Read how KerkPoint handles the GDPR.

Availability without phone calls

Volunteers mark their holidays and other days off themselves. Nobody is scheduled on a day they cannot serve.

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  1. 1 Mark a day off
  2. 2 Taken into account when filling automatically
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Example of availability: volunteers mark the days they cannot serve, and are then not scheduled on those days.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. You create the roles that fit your church, such as elder on duty, deacon on duty and an office-bearer for the collection. They sit together at the service.

Yes. Add the office-bearers to the role and let KerkPoint fill the coming months in turn. You then change what needs to be different, for example at an ordination service.

If you want them to. You can show the coming services on a public page or on your church website. You decide what is shown there.

KerkPoint runs on servers in the EU and works with a data processing agreement. Every church has its own, shielded environment.

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