7 Congregation Details

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1 7 Congregation Details Organisations Included The following organisations are included in the Congregations group: Aboriginal Community Congregation Preaching Place Lutheran Congregation in Fellowship Other Lutheran Congregation The following people are able to update information about your congregation: Pastors serving the congregation Lay workers serving the congregation Staff of the congregation Congregation Executive (Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer, Statistician and Safe Place Officer) Note that most of the information about your congregation and its services, ministries, activities and events will be shown to LAMP members and some of it will be shown on your congregation s page on the LCA website. Your district or the LCA office will update information about your organisation which you can view on your page on the LCA directory. This includes the following where relevant: District and Zone Whether you call pastors or lay workers Whether you have a vacancy for a pastor or lay worker Whether you area a member of the LCA GST Group Whether you have a CCLI or CAL copyright licence subscription through the LCA Getting to the Edit Page Go Click to My change LAMP password Home to enter a new password. Passwords must contain at six or more characters, To including edit information least one about letter congregations and least with one which you number. are associated, go to My LAMP Home and click on Edit alongside the name of congregation. CongregationHelp.pdf LAMP Members Manual - Page 7-1

2 Hover your mouse over Congregation Details and click to go to the section you would like to update Name & Contact Info Name, parish, location, captions for photos and contact details Mission, Ministry & Events mission statement, worship services, associated ministries, regular activities and coming events People pastors, lay workers, staff, congregations executives and representatives Stats & Publications - key dates, financial information, statistics, safe place policy compliance questionnaire and publications you require 7.1 Name & Contact Info Full Name the legal name of your congregation Locality select your locality for the list. If your locality is not on not on the, click on Add Locality and enter your Place Name, Postcode and then select your State and Country. It is preferred that you use a locality which has a postcode. If your locality does not have a postcode, insert 0000 as the postcode. Special Nature select from the list if your congregation has an ethnic or special nature (eg Aboriginal, German, Church for the Deaf) Building Name the first name of your congregation (eg St John s, Martin Luther) If you worship in another building or church (eg CWA Hall or Catholic Church, show this information in your Physical Address Common Name (Known As) - is a standardised name allocated by your district which is used in LAMP for lists. The standard for this name locality (special nature) building name Congregation type, State eg Unley St Johns Congregation, SA; Adelaide Bethlehem German Congregation, SA; Alcoota Aboriginal Community, NT Own Parish tick if your congregation is a single point parish Member of Multipoint Parish if you congregation is part of a multipoint parish, select the parish name for the list Logo Your congregation or parish logo can be shown on your congregation s page on the LCA website. CongregationHelp.pdf LAMP Members Manual - Page 7-2

3 If you would like a logo shown, either the logo to help@lamp.lca.org.au or post a photograph to the LCA National Office. We can crop and/or resize to suit. Logos are not more than 230 pixels wide by 70 pixels high Physical Address always show your Town/Suburb under Locality. Click Add Locality if your locality is not listed. Addresses Use a street number wherever possible. The following abbreviations are preferred. Alley Ally Grove Gr Arcade Arc Highway Hwy Avenue Ave Lane Lane Boulevard Bvd Parade Pde Circuit Cct Place Pl Close Cl Road Rd Court Ct Square Sq Crescent Cres Street St Drive Dr Terrace Tce Esplanade Esp Photos - LAMP allows for two photos which are shown on your page on the LCA website. Photo 1 preferably a photo of the outside of your church Photo 2 preferably a photo showing something unique about your congregation, ideally with people If you would like a different photo shown, either the photo to help@lamp.lca.org.au or post a photograph to the LCA National Office. We can crop and/or resize photos to suit. Photos are 200pixels high by not more than 300 pixels high. Photo Captions add suitable captions for your photos How to find the Church Information to help people get to your church (eg bus stop number, directions from a main road) CongregationHelp.pdf LAMP Members Manual - Page 7-3

4 Office and Postal Address show each address. Always show your Town/Suburb under Locality. Click Add Locality if your locality is not listed. Daytime Phone a phone number which can be used to contact your congregation. Show the number you dial from the country in which you are located, including area code, eg Fax show if available Website your congregation or parish website. Show this as an address which can be used to contact your congregation. All congregations with an address will be given an LCA address of the form building name.locality.state@lca.org.au (eg stjohns.unley.sa@lca.org.au). sent to the LCA address will be redirected to your local address. The LCA IT Officer will be advised by whenever you change your local address He will update the address where s sent to your LCA address are directed Office Hours show the days and times when your office is open (eg Tuesday: 10am-12,30pm, 1-5pm Wednesday-Friday: 9.15am-12.30pm, 1-5pm) Click Submit at the bottom of the page to save your updates 7.2 Mission, Ministry & Events Mission Statement - If your congregation has a mission statement, enter it here Information for LCA Yearbook enter times of services. If service times vary, enter variable Service Details click add to add a new service or edit to update details Details Include type of service, location (if appropriate), Holy Communion etc Day eg Every Sunday, Every 3 rd Sunday Time eg 10am, 7,30pm Language (if not English) Pick from the list. Lists of services in different languages will be available on the LCA website. If youir vloanguage is not on the list, help@lamp.lca.org.au or phone the LCA National office your language to be added. Click on Submit or Modify CongregationHelp.pdf LAMP Members Manual - Page 7-4

5 Pre-school, school, bookshop, community care and aged care ministries Details of all of these ministries are in LAMP Click on add or edit to add or update a link to these ministries Pick from the list of ministries and click Submit or Modify Regular Activities and Other Ministries Click add or edit to add or update an activity or ministry Enter Activity Description, Day, Time and select Activity Type and Language (if not English). Click Submit or Modify CongregationHelp.pdf LAMP Members Manual - Page 7-5

6 Coming Events Click add or edit to add or update an event Enter event details. Click Submit or Modify For a significant event, tick Show on LCA Website All events will be visible to LAMP Members, and your events will be shown on your congregation s page on the LCA website, but only events where Show on LCA Website is ticked will be shown under Events on the LCA website. Click Submit at the bottom of the page to save your updates 7.3 People People People in LAMP are linked to organisations. Names and, where appropriate, contact details for pastors, lay workers, staff, executive and representatives are visible to LAMP members. To link a person to your congregation, click on add. To update an existing link, click edit Select the person from the list of people. Adding a person If the person in not on the list, click on Add Person. It is important that you do not add someone who is already a LAMP member. Note that you will need to provide an and a postal address for new members. Districts and the LCA require this information to contact officials and representatives. You might need to use the parish address and possibly postal address. When you add a new person, they will CongregationHelp.pdf LAMP Members Manual - Page 7-6

7 automatically be sent an advising them of their Username and password. Linking the person to the organisation Select the Person Type and Role Type from the pick list. If you are editing the Role Type you will need to click on Show All to display all options in the pick list. Add the person s Position Title Add the start date (and end date) if relevant If the person is called/appointed or employed by this body, show FTE (full time equivalent) - 1 or less, with 1 being full time - based on a 37.5 hour week. If the person is not called/appointed or employed by this body do not show anything in the FTE box. For pastors and lay workers, if this is the calling/appointing body, tick the Called/Appointed box and enter the name of the person who conducted the installation. If this is not the calling/appointing body, do not tick this box. When a person finishes their service, add the End Date and untick the Current Service box. Following are applicable Person Type and Role Type for a congregation Person Type Pastor Role Type Aboriginal Pastor (indigenous pastor) Aged Care Pastor CongregationHelp.pdf LAMP Members Manual - Page 7-7

8 Lay Worker Congregation/Parish Staff Congregation/Parish Executive Congregation/Parish Representative Defence Force Chaplain LCA/District Director LCA/District President/Vice President Missionary Parish Associate Pastor (working under another pastor) Parish Church Planting Pastor Parish Honorary Assistant Parish Interim Pastor Parish Locum Tenens Parish Relieving Pastor Parish Senior Pastor (pastor in charge) Parish Sole Pastor Parish Team Pastor (in a team ministry with other pastors) Pastor without a call Principal School Pastor Tertiary Chaplain Tertiary Lecturer Aboriginal Ministry Aged Care Chaplain Apprentice Camping Ministry Chaplain Director Family Ministry Intern Ministry Worker Outreach Ministry Parish Nurse Pastoral Care School Chaplain Small Group Ministry Tertiary Chaplain Worship/Music Ministry Youth Ministry Congregation/Parish Staff Office Secretary Chairperson Safe Place Officer Secretary Statistician Treasurer All-Age Education Rep ALWS Rep Children's Ministry Rep Community Care Rep District Synod Delegate LCA Synod (Parish) Delegate LLL Rep 'Lutheran Women' Contact 'Media Matters' Rep Men's Ministry Rep Mission Rep Public Officer (for incorporated bodies) Public School Chaplain Small Groups Rep 'The Lutheran' Collector Women's Ministry Rep Worship Rep CongregationHelp.pdf LAMP Members Manual - Page 7-8

9 Youth Ministry Rep Click Submit at the bottom of the page to save your updates 7.4 Stats & Publications Key Dates Enter key historic dates Financial Information Tick if Incorporated Select months when Financial Year Ends and Elections held Enter ABN if you have one Statistics This section lists dates when the last five statistics forms were submitted and shows summaries of your statistics from these five returns. Click add to commence a new form or edit to update an existing form When completing the statistics form: Click Download Statistics Workbook to access a workbook you can use to assist in completing the form. Select the year from the pull down list Click on to obtain information about the question. Ensure that you click Submit to save your work Note that you can save the form to file and/or print a copy. Note that many fields will accept only numbers, not other characters ($, +, etc) The following fields MUST be completed Total Attendance at Worship Services Number of Baptised Members Local and Parish Offerings CongregationHelp.pdf LAMP Members Manual - Page 7-9

10 Safe Place Policy Compliance questionnaire This section lists dates when the last five Safe Place Policy Compliance questionnaires were submitted Click add to commence a new questionnaire or edit to update an existing questionnaire. Ensure that you click Submit to save your work Note that you can save the completed questionnaires to file and/or print a copy. CongregationHelp.pdf LAMP Members Manual - Page 7-10

11 Publications Required Click add or edit to show number required of different publications. Some groups can provide publications folded,. Show your preference by ticking Folded? Click Submit at the bottom of the page to save your updates Where can I go for help? For more information contact your district or the LCA national office. You will find contact details by going to and clicking on How can I provide comments and suggestions for future development of LAMP? your comments and suggestion to help@lamp.lca.org.au CongregationHelp.pdf LAMP Members Manual - Page 7-11