The ABC Baptist Church has a membership of about 500 members and is having difficulties managing interoffice correspondence and membership information such as tax reporting for membership, calendars, of events, printing of programs, and recording of offerings. ABC Baptist Church now uses out of date hand written manual input of all information. They also use a very expensive outside printing company for all of their correspondence and church programs.
             The church has hired a new minister; and, his innovative ideas include leading our church is increasing our membership about 8 per cent each month. He is trying to improve the church's accountability to its members, improve accounting procedures, reporting, and implement changes to help the church save money on printing costs which has skyrocketed since the membership has started.
             Since this is an old established church, we have many is the congregation who are not ready for the changes that he has suggested, the board of trustees decided to committee of church members consisting of several members who owned their own business, heads of church departments(such as the Sunday School and Missions), the Deacons and Deaconess board, the Accountants and the church secretaries to evaluate our current procedures and develop requirements that the church needs. All of the members of this committee should eventually be involved in the usage of the equipment.
             The committee decided on how many people should initially use the system. The security of the system, the need for the system to be user friendly, and the fact that the committee did not have the expertise to handle the problem were all problems that the committee related to the board. The committee decided to suggest an analysis of our current procedures done by an outside consultant. They agreed on the integrated firm of Gates Technology, Inc. and TEACH ell us the advantages and disadvantages to changing our church into ...