Resurrection Church in Cagayan de Oro is not a small church. With just over 800 active members, 12 geographically organized cell groups, 6 active ministries, and 3 weekly service times, their administrative complexity rivals a small organization.
When we spoke with their church administrator, Sis. Tessie, she described the state of operations before StewardTrack as "controlled chaos." "We knew it was working only because we were working all the time," she said.
The Breaking Point
The triggering event was not a crisis — it was a realization. Sis. Tessie had been manually compiling the Sunday attendance figures from 12 cell group leaders' text messages every Monday morning. Adding up the numbers, noting absentees, cross-referencing with the previous week. This process took her about 4 hours every Monday.
One Monday, she calculated how many hours she had spent on this task in the past year. It was over 200 hours. The equivalent of more than five full work weeks — spent adding numbers from text messages.
The Migration
Resurrection Church migrated to StewardTrack over 8 weeks. The member import was the most labor-intensive part — with 800 records across multiple spreadsheets and notebooks, cleaning the data took longer than expected. But the payoff was immediate: the first time the pastoral team pulled the Congregation Insights report and saw their membership broken down by cell group, age, and ministry involvement, it was the clearest picture of their congregation they had ever seen.
One Year Later
Sis. Tessie's Monday attendance compilation now takes 20 minutes. The cell group leaders enter attendance directly in StewardTrack, and the summaries aggregate automatically. She has used the time she recovered to develop a new member welcome program — something she had wanted to do for years but never had bandwidth for.
"The best outcome was not saving time. It was what we did with the time we saved." — Sis. Tessie, Resurrection Church CDO
