Good Afternoon,
Your 2016 Yearbook report forms were sent yesterday, December 28, via regular mail. Included in that mailing are forms for the local church report, report of church officers, ministerial support, the conference update and instructions to help in the completion of these forms.
The National Office is asking all conference churches to enter their data using the online system in the National Office's Data Hub; all data from the local church report and ministerial support forms will be entered online.
Instructions for this online data entry are included with this mailing. After you have entered your data online, I ask that you mail these forms to the conference office using the self-addressed envelope and mark that your data has been entered online.
When reporting the local church report data using the online data entry system, you will be able to see your church's data for the past 11 years. Our instructions indicate that it is best to fill out the paper forms first before entering information into the online system, as you may not be able to leave the online system mid-process and then re-enter if you need to look up information. Included here is a spreadsheet listing all the Wisconsin Conference churches. In the first column on this spreadsheet is each church's "username" (our conference number and your church ID number). This is the "username" you will use for the online data entry. As is written in the "Church Yearbook Instructions", your default password is password. The National Office's Center for Analytics, Research and Data (CARD) has supplied us with step-by-step instructions for the online data entry; these materials are available at the following link:
http://www.ucc.org/research_yearbook
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If you have any questions (or problems) whatsoever, please do not hesitate to call me.
A few notes regarding the entering of data for the ministerial support form: the Data Hub system has a default of "senior pastor" - unless your pastor is the senior pastor, please change this field. In this same screen, please remember to mark whether your pastor is "full time" or "part time".
The Conference Update Form has been printed to reflect all the data we have in our database.
This information is for conference use only; you will not be entering this data into the online Data Hub. Please make any changes/corrections on that form and mail it the conference office using the self-addressed envelope (along with the other yearbook forms).
If you do not have internet access or are uncomfortable inputting data into a computer link, please email or call me ([email protected]) (608-846-7880) and we will work something out together.
Important dates:
January 3, 2017 - National Office's Data Hub opens for churches at noon
March 8, 2017 - National Office's Data Hub closes for churches at midnight
This information requested is extremely important for use at the national and conference levels.
Thank you for your time and effort with this project. If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to call or email me.
Susan Taylor
[email protected]
608-846-7880
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