So I am the ward mission leader in my ward.  As anyone who has served in any leadership position knows, one of the hardest things to do is keep track of everyone.  Well, I wanted to make it a bit easier and harness the power of technology to do that a little better.  What better way than my favorite web app (WordPress).

DISCLAIMER:  I am aware of the work the church is doing on this front.  I did do research into other similar projects, alas those projects are either dead, or on the back burner, and I need something now.  And I want to be able to easily share what I an the missionaries are learning with the rest of the ward leadership.  My real hope is that this project can help get some ideas out there as to what is possible so when the Digital Area Book project get’s revived we might have some thoughts and experiences to contribute.   So.. onto the plugin.

Functions

This is still a project under development, but check out this video for a little introduction the the tool.   I am calling this the Ward Mission Plugin 0.5 release.

• Add Families and track teaching, commitments, goals, concerns, etc.
• Add Potential Families that Members and Investigators are working with
• Keep Log of activity
• Create custom cateogories
• Assign families to other users (ward missionaries)
• Upload CSV from Ward Website

Coming Soon:

• Custom Reports based off of data in families
• Schedule Automatic Email of Reports

Usage

I need folks to test it out.  If you are interested in using it, or even just playing around I set this up in a multi-site instance at http://ward-mission.com.  That means I can create a site for you with a click up a button with a URL like slc42ward.ward-mission.com or something like that.  I will open this up to all eventually and let anyone create their own site.

I want to just say right up front that this project is a free project and my intentions are to keep it free forever.   I am not trying to turn this into a business or anything like that.  I already have one of those and it takes up all my time.

If you are comfortable with wordpress can also download the 0.5 beta plugin here, and put it on your own site.

Getting Involved

I would love your feedback and have created a dev site where you can leave your feedback at http://dev.ward-mission.com.   If you are interested in joining me on the development shoot me an email or leave a comment on the dev blog.