Hands-on Training
This year we are offering significantly more hands-on training opportunities. To kick things off we have an optional pre-conference called Power Start which offers a deep-dive into the course content in either 2 hour or 4 hour sessions. During the main conference we are offering 26 different classes to choose from. We have targeted the class content into one of three experience levels:
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Download Materials
NOTE: Visit the Education tab on the Experience.FellowshipOne.com site to download a file containing the class materials for all 28 Hands-on Training labs held at the DC08 conference.
Power Start
On Thursday, from 8am – Noon, we are offering an optional pre-conference we call “Power Start”. There will be 6 different, in-depth, hands-on, training classes available. There will be 2 four hour classes and 4 two hour classes to choose from. Class sizes are limited to 15 attendees per class so sign up early to reserve your seat today. The cost for Power Start is an additional $250.00 USD per registration.The classes offered during Power Start are:
Thursday, May 15
Thursday, May 15
8:00-10:00
Volunteer Pipeline
Everything you ever wanted to t know about the Volunteer pipeline in one hands on class. Learn how to configure volunteer applications, assign requirements to job opportunities and assign users to oversee assignments. See how people complete volunteer applications and then practice moving them through the different stages of pipeline.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Ministry Leaders/Volunteer Coordinators
Thursday, May 15
8:00-12:00
Activity & Event Registration
This four hour session focuses on end-to-end event management. Configure an activity and learn how to create event registration forms that can be used to register for activities via your church web site. Learn how to manage event payments, down-payments, and refunds.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with activity creation
Audience: Administrative or IT Staff, Fellowship One Champions, Ministry leaders and assistants
Thursday, May 15
8:00-12:00
Small Groups
In this four hour comprehensive session, you will learn how to manage small groups from top to bottom. Learn how to create the activity, schedules, RLC’s, and how to utilize your small group leaders to track attendance for you, and which reports are most valuable for tracking small groups.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with activity creation
Audience: Small Group Ministry Leaders/Assistants
Thursday, May 15
10:15-12:00
Activity Configuration: Student Ministries
Students are quite an active bunch of people. Discuss configuring the most common youth activities from weekly worship services to lock-ins to summer camps. Attendance and involvement will be emphasized during this training.
Prerequisites: Familiarity in activity configuration
Audience: Ministry Leaders and Assistants
Thursday, May 15
10:15-12:00
Group Email
Everything you wanted to know about effectively utilizing the Group Email tool to communicate with your church membership, leadership and small groups. Learn the ins and outs of directed emails, email formatting, multi-media capabilities and HTML integration.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of email as a communication tool
Audience: Ministry Leaders and Assistants
Training Classes
During the main conference there will be 26 different hands-on training classes available to choose from. Each student will be assigned their own computer, and class size will be limited to provide the best learning experience for everyone. All training classes will be led by Fellowship Technologies eUniversity instructors.
Note: When registering for the conference you will be asked to select a particular training class. This is for planning purposes only. Once you arrive at the conference you can attend other classes based upon availability.
Thursday, May 15
Thursday, May 15
2:15-3:15
WebLink for Beginners
Want to provide tools to reach people for Christ on the World Wide Web, but think you aren't "techie" enough; this is the class for you! No HTML required! Learn the basics of WebLink from creating WebLink enabled activities to basic configuration of links and hyperlink buttons for non-techies.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Ministry Leaders and Assistants
Thursday, May 15
2:15-3:15
People Management
Learn how to correctly enter new data into Fellowship One, how to manage existing people data, and how to search for people in the database.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Any Fellowship One user
Thursday, May 15
2:15-3:15
Church Communications
How do I communicate with my church using Fellowship One? Learn about the different communication tools in Fellowship One. Understand the process for setting up church wide emails and communicating to ministry specific groups. Learn about creating a church communication policy so you do not send unwanted email to your congregation.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Ministry Leaders and Assistants
Thursday, May 15
2:15-4:15
Small Group Management
In this 2 hour comprehensive session, you will learn how to manage small groups from top to bottom. Learn how to create the activity, schedules, RLC’s, and how to utilize your small group leaders to track attendance for you, and which reports are most valuable for tracking small groups.
Prerequisites: Fellowship One People Experience, Fellowship One WebLink
Audience: Small Group Ministry Leaders/Assistants
Thursday, May 15
3:30-4:30
How to Find, Run, and Save Reports
Struggle with your weekly reporting? Join us as we show you how to make reporting in Fellowship One as easy as clicking a button. Learn how to find the report you want, set report filters and output types and save reports to your library.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Any Fellowship One user
Thursday, May 15
3:30-4:30
Event Registration Forms
Learn how to create event registration forms that can be used to register for activities via your church web site. Discuss associating funds with your form for the purpose of collecting and managing registration fees.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Administrative or IT Staff, Fellowship One Champions, Ministry leaders and assistants
Thursday, May 15
3:30-4:30
Relationship Management
Ever want to know more about counseling/mentor ministries that meet outside of the physical church building? Learn how to give your counselors/mentors the ability to record and view meeting notes via your church website using Fellowship One WebLink’s Relationship Manager. This class will walk you through the basics of Relationship Manager as well as show you some best practice solutions for Mentoring, Counseling, and Foster Care programs.
Prerequisites: Fellowship One People experience, Fellowship One WebLink
Audience: Pastoral Care Administrators and Ministry Leaders
Thursday, May 15
4:45-6:00
Giftedness
Practice setting up simple giftedness programs in Fellowship One. Associate gifts with different volunteer positions. Create a giftedness profile for individuals in your congregation. Learn how to match your congregation to ideal volunteer positions.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Assimilation staff/Volunteer Coordinators
Thursday, May 15
4:45-6:00
Contribution Statement Style Sheets
Learn how to modify the default contribution statement styles to add images, move comment blocks, and modify contribution tables. This class will teach you some very basic XSL to help you understand the default styles and how you can modify them to create your own.
Prerequisites: Some basics XML/XSL knowledge
Audience: Administrative or IT Staff
Thursday, May 15
4:45-6:00
Reconciling Online Payments
A streamlined approach to reconciling Online Payments! Spend time learning how to reconcile Internet Merchant Account bank deposits to Fellowship One data. This hands-on class moves from your bank account to your Internet Merchant Account and then into Fellowship One. Also, spend time in CyberSource searching for transactions and understanding error codes.
Prerequisites: At least one Fellowship One Payment Gateway that is processing live transactions
Audience: Finance Team
Thursday, May 15
4:45-6:00
WebLink: Creative Style Sheets
Discover how to modify Fellowship One WebLink to make it look like your church's web site. Learn how to download the style sheet and modify it to change colors, fonts, and background images.
Prerequisites: Some web design knowledge including CSS
Audience: Administrative or IT Staff
Friday, May 16
Friday, May 16
9:30-10:30
Fellowship One Champion
Fellowship One Champions embody the excitement and passion of what using Fellowship One is all about. They know now that the proper use of the system will allow the church to care and love people as Christ has done for us. Understand the capabilities and how to utilize them for accelerated performance at the church. This session will help Fellowship One Champions with both maintenance tasks and pushing their church installation of Fellowship One to the max.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Fellowship One Champion/Administrators
Friday, May 16
9:30-10:30
Contacts and Notes for Pastors
Learn the value of Contacts and Individual Notes in Fellowship One. See how shared and private note types can impact your church to foster better communication between a church and its attendees. Learn how Contacts can become an essential tool to help track people you are ministering to.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Pastoral Care Administrators and Ministry Leaders
Friday, May 16
9:30-10:30
How to Find, Run, and Save Reports
Struggle with your weekly reporting? Join us as we show you how to make reporting in Fellowship One as easy as clicking a button. Learn how to find the report you want, set report filters and output types and save reports to your library.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Any Fellowship One user
Friday, May 16
9:30-11:45
Volunteer Pipeline
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Volunteer pipeline in one hands on class. Learn how to configure volunteer applications, assign requirements to job opportunities and assign users to oversee assignments. See how people complete volunteer applications and then practice moving them through the different stages of pipeline.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Ministry Leaders/Volunteer Coordinators
Friday, May 16
10:45-11:45
Advanced Query Builder
Try your hand at building some complicated reports with Query Builder. Learn how to build statements and combine statements to build compound statements. Discover the different options that are available from Query Builder output results.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Any Fellowship One user
Friday, May 16
10:45-11:45
Groups for Beginners
What are Groups? Learn how to effectively create and manage groups to help you accelerate your care for individuals. See how you can use groups to enhance communications with your attendees.
Prerequisites: Familliarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Any Fellowship One user
Friday, May 16
10:45-11:45
Contribution Management
Discover all the different ways to add contribution information to Fellowship One. Get the insider tips and best practices for administering contributions. Learn how to quickly find contribution information, run statistical reports, and manage household/organization contribution information. Learn about pledge drives and pledge card best practices.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with contributions in Fellowship One
Audience: Finance Team
Friday, May 16
1:15-2:45
Activity Configuration: Semester-based Classes
Learn how to configure more complex women's bible study activities, including check-in consisting of multiple classes occurring at the same time. Also learn how to configure these classes with multiple start times; sometimes on different days. Finally, learn how to schedule these studies into semester cycles that change 2-3 times per year.
Prerequisites: Familiarity in activity configuration
Audience: Ministry Leaders and Assistants
Friday, May 16
1:15-2:45
Activity Configuration: Worship Service
Learn best practices in configuring and administering the Worship Service activities. You'll learn how to schedule a diverse group of volunteers from Hospitality to Worship/Creative Arts teams. Learn how to keep track of headcount and view trends over a period of time. Discover how to communicate with these key groups of volunteers.
Prerequisites: Familiarity in activity configuration
Audience: Ministry Leaders and Assistants
Friday, May 16
1:15-2:45
Vacation Bible School
Ever feel lost trying to create a VBS activity in Fellowship One? In this hour long session, we will discuss using Fellowship One to create a basic VBS activity. Discussion will include creating the activity, assigning kids and volunteers to breakout groups and rooms/locations and the benefits of both. Brief discussions of how to use forms to facilitate online event registration will also be covered.
Prerequisites: Fellowship One People Experience, Fellowship One WebLink
Audience: Children's Ministry Leaders/Assistants
Friday, May 16
1:15-2:45
Assimilation Process
Understand the process of managing assimilation and how you can track where a person is in their journey to becoming a full-time follower of Christ. Learn what reports you can use to measure your assimilation process. See how contacts, assignments, attendance and giving combine to allow you to measure assimilation.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Fellowship One Champion, Pastor/Administrative Staff
Friday, May 16
3:00-4:30
Activity Configuration: Mission Trips
Checklists, checklists, checklists! Learn how to create Mission Trips activities within Fellowship One effectively. This training session will ensure that everything will be tracked for a successful Mission Trip. Also, learn how to receive gifts for Mission Trips by using Online Giving.
Prerequisites: Familiarity in activity configuration
Audience: Ministry Leaders and Assistants
Friday, May 16
3:00-4:30
Multi-Campus
Configure and discuss how to use the various features of Fellowship One to support the needs of a multi-campus church. Learn how to manage security, activities, contact cards, contributions, attributes, statuses and reporting. Although Fellowship One doesn't have the concept of "campus," you'll learn how to make it perform in a very workable manner in your multi-campus environment.
Prerequisites: Fellowship One Champion
Audience: Any Fellowship One user
Friday, May 16
3:00-4:45
Contact Management
This class is a two hour hands on study of Contacts, from creation to close, within Fellowship One. Topics covered include; a) creating contact types, items, forms, and dispositions, b) streamlined routing of contacts, c) managing assigned contacts, d) transferring and closing contacts, e) adding, viewing, and editing contacts, and finally, use of the Vitals tab to track the progress of assigned contacts. Come and learn how to accelerate this powerful tool within your church!
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Staff that administer and enter contacts
Friday, May 16
3:00-4:45
Data Integrity
Merge, manage, move, and maintain your database using best practices. Learn how to implement consistency in Fellowship One within your team.
Prerequisites: Fellowship One Champion
Audience: Administrative or IT Staff
Friday, May 16
3:00-4:45
Contact Management
This is a hands on study of Contacts, from creation to close, within Fellowship One. Topics covered include; a) creating contact types, items, forms, and dispositions, b) streamlined routing of contacts, c) managing assigned contacts, d) transferring and closing contacts, e) adding, viewing, and editing contacts, and finally, use of the Vitals tab to track the progress of assigned contacts. Come and learn how to accelerate this powerful tool within your church!
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Fellowship One
Audience: Staff that administer and enter contacts