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Two different types of businesses handle credit/debit card transactions: Payment Processors and Aggregators. Payment Processors are primary payment gateways. They are the middleman between main processing banks and vendors. RDS chose Vanco because it is a PCI-compliant gateway. More than 12,000 religious and nonprofit organizations nationwide currently rely on Vanco Services to deliver convenient electronic… Continue reading Understanding Credit/Debit Card Processing

During the May, 2013 F4 tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma, hundreds of homes were destroyed and badly damaged, lives were lost, vehicles destroyed, and there were countless instances of suffering. Yet there were also stories of heroism, miraculous recoveries, and thousands of people rushing in with food, water, blankets and supplies. Churches in the… Continue reading God is Good and People Can Be Good

Mobile data processing represents the wave of the future that is already here. The ability to conduct outreach and ministry while “on-the-go” provides pastors, staff and members convenient tools. RDS church management software includes a number of special features for mobile access. Cell phones and tablets: Cell phones can use these features but the small… Continue reading Mobile On-The-Go Ministry

The utensils used at the Last Supper are unknown, and we can only speculate what they might have been. Many theologians believe the upper room was located in a poorer neighborhood on the lower slope of the western hill of Jerusalem called Mt. Zion. This might mean the furnishings and utensils would have been modest,… Continue reading Can We Visualize The Last Supper?

The apostle Paul dedicated his very life traveling, preaching and establishing and nourishing churches across Asia Minor, Palestine and Europe. He is surely our greatest example of a church planter. We do not need more reason to be involved in church planting than what we are admonished to do in Matthew 28:19-20, “Go therefore and… Continue reading Church Planting

Leader Management Gives Leaders of Groups Remote Access Leaders of groups, such as Sunday school classes, youth groups, small group ministries, etc., need to be able to manage the people in their groups. It saves staff time when each group leader can enroll new individuals, record attendance, communicate, make inquiries and produce reports for their… Continue reading Group Leader Management

Every summer there are at two questions often asked by children’s and youth directors: 1) Who are all our new kindergartners? 2) Who are our new ninth graders? (In other words, who is now eligible to attend senior high youth activities?) We want to start preparing in the summer to get our children and youth… Continue reading Keep Track of What Grade Our Kids Are In

The church is called by Christ to this most important ministry as he called upon Peter and his Disciples to “Feed my sheep.” – John 21:17 “Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.”  –… Continue reading Care Ministries – Care for Others

The Muratorian Canon (c. AD 170) refers to Luke as the author of “Acts of All the Apostles.” The dictionary defines an activity as “a specified pursuit in which a person partakes.” The RDS Advantage church management system recognizes this link to name one of its powerful features “Activities.” As in the early church, ministries… Continue reading Ministry Through Activity Involvement

RDS Advantage, Inc, twenty-nine year developer of not-for-profit and church management systems, announces the promotion of Gail Miller to Executive Vice-President. Mrs. Miller came to RDS with extensive business and church administration experience, and has held a number of supervisory and management posts with RDS and its related companies for the past twenty-one years. Her… Continue reading RDS Advantage Executive Promotion