Institution of a New Congregation

Church Social offers a migration tool that transfers member information and family photos from one or more “mother” congregations to a newly instituted "daughter" congregation or church plant. This process saves administrators significant time and effort during the institution process and the migration is performed by Church Social tech support.

What does the process look like?

Once the Church Social account for the new daughter congregation is set up, the administrators from the mother congregation(s) should provide a list of all families to be migrated. The migration is best done on the date of institution (or the day before/after if it is a Sunday) so that members appear as departed from the mother congregation and joined to the new congregation. After migration, administrators will need to assign office-bearer roles and add members to shepherding groups and schedules as needed.

What happens after the migration?

Once the migration has occurred the members of the new daughter congregation will see their new congregation when they sign into Church Social. In the mother congregation, these members will show as "past members" and are only visible to your administrators and statisticians. This is the same as if these members have departed your congregation to move to any other congregation.

What if the new congregation will not be using Church Social?

If the new congregation will not be using Church Social, then the Church Social administrators will have to manually generate an attestation or "Transfer Documents" report for each family.  Here is a link to our new documentation on that process.