The church calendar and the attendance of every gathering.
Services, small group meetings, rehearsals, vigils and special dates in a single calendar, by week or by month, coloured by category. Whatever repeats you create once and Eclesi repeats on its own. And every occurrence carries its own attendance list, already assembled with the people who were expected there.
The calendar that lives in three places
The official calendar is on a noticeboard, the real one lives in two people’s heads, and a third version circulates in loose messages. Two ministries book a rehearsal for the same hour and nobody finds out before Saturday.
Attendance is ticked on a sheet of paper that stays in the secretary’s folder. Sometimes it is typed up weeks later, sometimes never, and the year’s figure ends up being a well-meaning guess.
Even when attendance is written down, nobody can answer the next question: present out of how many? Without an expected list, a hundred people can be excellent or terrible, and the church has no way of telling which.
What the events module does
A calendar by week and by month
The calendar opens by week or by month, with each gathering coloured by its category and an indicator for whatever is happening right now. It is the screen that answers the usual questions fast: what is on today, what is on Sunday, who already booked that slot. Each block leads straight to the gathering, with its address and its attendance list.
What repeats, you create once
A gathering can repeat daily, weekly or monthly, with an interval you define, and it ends on a date or after a number of occurrences. The Sunday service goes in once and shows up every Sunday. When one specific Sunday changes time, changes venue or is called off, you edit only that occurrence and the series stays intact.
Attendance with four states
The attendance list arrives already assembled with whoever was expected at that gathering, drawn from the active members of the church or of the group. Each person is marked present, late, absent or excused, and there is a shortcut to mark everyone present and then fix the exceptions. Attendance can be posted later, calmly, without losing the gathering’s real date.
The visitors who were there
Not everyone who shows up on a Sunday is a member, and the gathering’s count acknowledges that: alongside the members you marked, the record keeps the visitors of that occurrence. The gathering’s number stops being just the internal list and starts reflecting who was actually in the room that night.
The gathering’s finances
A gathering can have income and expenses tied to it, kept apart and totalled on its own screen. The service offering, what the retreat raised, the money spent on materials for the vigil: each entry stays attached to the gathering that produced it, with the receipt attached, and still appears in the church cash book like any other.
Links and comparison
Online gatherings keep their link, whether it is a browser link or YouTube, in the same place as the physical address. And every occurrence shows how it did against the average of its series, which answers the question that matters: was this Sunday above or below a typical Sunday? Old gatherings can be archived and restored, without erasing history.
Frequently asked questions about events
Put the calendar and the attendance in the same place.
Thirty days free, no credit card. Create the Sunday service once and start following who was at every gathering. In two weeks you already have your first comparison between a Sunday and the average of its series.