Description of CV-Schedule

CV-Schedule, along with your word processor program, is a complete application for:

• Maintaining databases of church volunteers along with their scheduling preferences
• Maintaining databases of Ministries or activities, such as Ushers, Readers, etc., to be scheduled
• Maintaining databases of Regular, weekly Services or Masses along with the number of volunteers required from each Ministry at each Service or Mass
• Maintaining databases of Special Services or Masses, such as Christmas, etc., along with the number of volunteers required from each Ministry at each Service or Mass
• Automatically creating and printing Schedules and Sign-In sheets in accordance with the information stored in the databases
• Maintaining backup copies of the database files

The scheduling of volunteers is done using a flexible set of rules that can be customized to fit the requirements of your Church and of individual volunteers. Scheduling options available for each volunteer and family include:

• Avoid splitting the family between 2 services on any weekend
• Always serve together as a Family Ministry
• Serve together as a Family Ministry whenever convenient
• Baby-sitter option: Husband and wife will not be scheduled together
• Serve every week
• Serve more often or less often than normal
• "Unavailable" dates
• "Must schedule" dates

CV-Schedule can schedule volunteers for:

• Regular Saturday and Sunday services
• Weekday services
• Special services such as Christmas Day, Ash Wednesday, etc.
• Any other events that occur on a regular weekly schedule or on a one-time basis
• Ministry sub-groups such as Lector I and Lector II, or Head Usher and regular Usher

This program gives you Schedules and Sign-In Sheets that are ready to view and print using your word processor and computer printer. There is no need to transfer information by hand to a paper form.

CV-Schedule will work for churches of any denomination or for other organizations. The names of your Church meetings (Mass, Service, etc.) and Ministry or activity names can be fully customized.

A Database Manager is integrated with CV-Schedule to create and manage the databases used: Ministry Database, Service Database, Personnel Database, and Formats Database. Up to four Database Sets can be used to compile four separate schedules. For example, you could have separate schedules for weekend Services , weekday Services, winter schedule, summer schedule, prayer meetings, Bible study, etc.

A set of sample databases is included with the program so you can try out CV-Schedule without having to create a set of databases from scratch.

A 50+ page instruction manual is included in Rich Text Format or Microsoft Word format that you can print using your word processor program and printer. The manual has complete instructions for using CV-Schedule and includes many examples and help sections.

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