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Church Dashboard Instructions

In an effort to provide “web space” for every church, there is a local church page for each church on the conference website. To locate a church, click on Our Churches on the left side of the homepage.

• Local Church Dashboard Instructions (PDF)

Tutorial video
Watch and learn how to utilize the Local Church Dashboard to update your church page.

What’s on your page?
You can enter information about:

• Worship services: main, summer, other and Sunday school service times
• Web site: if you have a site for your church, you may link to it.
• Directions to your church
• Upcoming events
• Classifieds
• Prayer concerns

Access your church page
On the left side of the home page of www.moumethodist.org, you will see a box that says “church log in.” Enter the user name and password, and click the "Log In" button. You will be taken to what we call the "church dashboard", which is your church's administration page.

When you are logged in, your church's name should appear at the top of the page.  Next to your church's name there will be a "My Church Page" link and also a "Log out" link.  The "My Church Page" link will take you back to your church’s dashboard administration main page.  When you are finished click the "Log out" link and you should be taken to a page that says "You are logged out."

Information
The information displayed on your page comes from two sources, it is linked to the Conference/District database and the website console.

The “My church information” page
Your church’s information is pulled from the database used by the districts and the Conference. To make changes to your information, click on the link shown at right. You’ll see the form shown below. Type in the changes that should be made and then click the “Submit changes” button on the bottom.

Your changes will be forwarded to your district office for the database and then updated to the web. Please allow three days for the changes to be made.

Adding your church’s events
You can add your church’s calendar events by clicking on the “Add event” button. Be sure to fill out all the fields on the form and then click the “save” button at the bottom of the form.

The events you enter will appear on your church’s page, on the Conference web site events finder page and on the Conference web site calendar in the Local Church Events category.

Adding classifieds
Your church’s classified ads will appear on the My Church’s Classified Ads page. You may add new ads by clicking on the “Add classified” button (see the “Add events” entry above). Classifieds can be added in five categories:

• for sale
• free items
• items wanted,
• items available
• help wanted

When you no longer need the ad, go to that item’s classified form and click the “Make Inactive” check box. That will automatically pull the ad from the web site.  

Adding prayer concerns
You may add prayer concerns and they will appear on the Conference web site. In order to comply with privacy regulations, we have limited the amount of material that can be posted. Information that will appear includes the person’s or family’s name, the reason prayer is requested and who’s requesting it . Reasons for the request must be chosen from this list:

• concern
• employment
• family
• health
• joy
• military
• service
• personnel
• un-named concern

Managing your dashboard information
The log in user name and password are specific to your church. Do not give this access information to anyone else. To protect the integrity of your information, they should only be used by the pastor or the church web site administrator (the person responsible for making changes to your information). User names and passwords are case-sensitive. You may change your user name and password by typing the new ones into the form shown above, and then clicking on the “Save Changes” box.

Questions or problems?
To receive your log in information, or if you have any questions please contact:

Steve Cusumano
Graphics and Web Manager
Phone 573-441-1770
E-mail Steve Cusumano