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Legal Issues for Congregations
This course allows guest users to enter  
Welcome to the Congregation Administration course.

Please think of this as a neighborhood in which you are invited to participate in a variety of learning experiences. There is no charge for this course and you are encouraged to invite other members of your congregation to participate in all or part of the experience with you.

Sign in and introduce yourself to the moderator and others who will be sharing the adventure with you.

Congregation Administration is designed as a collection of separate courses, led by separate instructors, that address the basic issues confronted by the pastor or lay administrator of a parish. Each course invites you to complete a project that you will put to use in your congregation. You are also invited to share your project, as well as your comments and questions, with other participants in the course via the Forum. The course modules include:

1. Legal issues for Congregations
2. Records Management for Congregations
3. Maintaining the Parish Register
4. Doing a Congregation Self-study
5. Preserving the Congregation's History - Building a Congregation Archive

Records Management for Congregations
This course allows guest users to enter  

Welcome to the Congregation Administration course.

Please think of this as a neighborhood in which you are invited to participate in a variety of learning experiences. There is no charge for this course and you are encouraged to invite other members of your congregation to participate in all or part of the experience with you.

Sign in and introduce yourself to the moderator and others who will be sharing the adventure with you.

Congregation Administration is designed as a collection of separate courses, led by separate instructors, that address the basic issues confronted by the pastor or lay administrator of a parish. Each course invites you to complete a project that you will put to use in your congregation. You are also invited to share your project, as well as your comments and questions, with other participants in the course via the Forum. The course modules include:

1. Legal issues for Congregations
2. Records Management for Congregations
3. Maintaining the Parish Register
4. Doing a Congregation Self-study
5. Preserving the Congregation's History - Building a Congregation Archive

Maintaining the Parish Register

Welcome to the Congregation Administration course.

Please think of this as a neighborhood in which you are invited to participate in a variety of learning experiences. There is no charge for this course and you are encouraged to invite other members of your congregation to participate in all or part of the experience with you.

Sign in and introduce yourself to the moderator and others who will be sharing the adventure with you.

Congregation Administration is designed as a collection of separate courses, led by separate instructors, that address the basic issues confronted by the pastor or lay administrator of a parish. Each course invites you to complete a project that you will put to use in your congregation. You are also invited to share your project, as well as your comments and questions, with other participants in the course via the Forum. The course modules include:

1. Legal issues for Congregations
2. Records Management for Congregations
3. Maintaining the Parish Register
4. Doing a Congregation Self-study
5. Preserving the Congregation's History - Building a Congregation Archive

Building a Congregation Archive

Welcome to the Congregation Administration course.


This course introduces you to what is involved in establishing an archives for your congregation, but it is also ideal for those who wish to know about the different aspects of archiving records. Topics include creating an archives committee, writing a mission statement, developing collection and access policies, and how to inventory, appraise, preserve, arrange, and describe records that are maintained in the archives. If your congregation is starting an archives committee or if you are just looking for additional information on appaising, collecting, arranging, or preserving records, this course will provide you with the information needed to preserve the collective memory of your congregation.