This is a one-stop-shop resource for all of the content we have written and compiled for you pertaining to COVID-19 and its effects on our work lives. Our goal is to provide a central location for best practices and tools to help you work remotely, collaborate with staff, leadership, members, and guests, and to help you continue to provide relational ministry during physical separation. We will continue to update this page as we find more resources and add more content to our blog!

Our approach:

• We are focusing on helping you take the next, best (simple) step.
• We want to try to help you limit “tool sprawl” which confuses matters further.
• We are striving to provide solutions that will be most easy to shift to a normal operating mode when Corona passes.

Resources for Maintaining Virtual Ministry & Connection

• Tips for Hosting Virtual Small Groups and Other Volunteer-Led Remote Meetings
• Plan B Hospitality: When Traditional Methods Won’t Work
• Serving in the Midst of the Storm
• Church Guide To Creating Facebook Groups – Facebook groups provide a place for discussion, sharing of information, and private areas for communication. If your church is designed around Sunday School Bible Study as your primary organizing principle, this could be a great solution for managing those remotely.
• Free video and audio conference calling platforms:
  • Skype
  • Zoom
    • Simple Get-Started Guide to Zoom
    • Security Best Practices for Zoom
  • Talky
  • Jitsi
  • PhoneLiveStreaming.com
• Webinar – Pastor Panel: Ministry Strategies for 2020

Working from Home/Productivity Resources

• Download: Productivity Booster Template – We created this daily planner template to help you schedule out your day with to-do’s, meetings, breaks, and mental-health savers
• Enable’s Top Work From Home Tips
• Enable’s Top Work From Home Tips – Parents’ Edition

Enable’s Technology & Security Resources

• Enable’s Covid-19 Best Practices for Churches
• Enable’s Quick Start Guide to Live Streaming
• A Guide to Security and Privacy in Strange Times
• Return-to-Site: The Technology Checklist

Microsoft Office 365 Resources

• Microsoft Teams: A Quick Start Guide
• Webinar: Microsoft Teams Q&A
• How To Host A Virtual All-Staff Meeting on Teams
• How To Create and Host A Live Event on Teams
• Microsoft Guides:
  • Microsoft Quick Guide to Teams (3 minute video)
  • Microsoft Guide to Adding Guests to Teams
  • Microsoft’s Guide to Starting or Scheduling Meetings
  • Microsoft’s Printable Quick Reference to Teams
  • Microsoft’s Guide to One Drive
  • Microsoft’s Library of Teams Learning Videos
• Full List of All Enable Office 365 Resources

Google G Suite Resources

• Google Shared Drives Learning Center
• Google Hangouts Meet Learning Center
• Google Keep and Tasks Learning Center

Online Giving Resources

• Crucial Giving Considerations for Churches in the Midst of Crisis
• Vision 2’s Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Online Giving During a Crisis
• Webinar – Coronavirus and the Church: 12 Urgent Tips for Online Giving During a Crisis
• Five Deadly Sins of Online Giving
• The 80/20 Rule and Your Church
• Vision 2’s Online Giving Assessment Quiz
• Online Giving: Standing Strong Through COVID-19
• Online Giving: How a Chatbot Can SERVE Your Church
• Online Giving: Easy to Find and Easy to Use