Features
Event Management
Event management is easy with Cobblestone. Create events, discuss them, see who is attending and manage re-occurrence with ease. View event listings, Calendars, map view of events and see the events you have on your own calendar. Export events into your Outlook or other calendars with ease. Events can even be shared with your public website for those who use Ekklesia 360.
Member Management
Create an unlimited, centralized database with Cobblestone. Member management provides many powerful tools such as the ability to match member’s gifting to the specific needs of the church. Cobblestone allows an easy-to-use place for people to update their contact information.
Volunteer Management
Do you need to find volunteers for specific projects? With Cobblestone you can match people’s gifting to the specific needs of the church. Next time you need to find a person to help setup a computer network you can immediately find the people who can help. Create new projects and Cobblestone can automatically request those with the appropriate skills join in.
Discussions & Messaging System
Allow people to continue the discussions from small groups or create private group conversation. Send messages to multiple recipients and easily track the conversation on a centralized thread.
Communication & AD Server
Communication is easy with Cobblestone. Do you need to send an email to men only, leaders, people in a specifc group or with a specific skill set? Cobblestone allows the church to communicate directly to those they need to contact. In addition, our Ad Server allows you to display ADs to your community to promote new sermon series or other events you want specifc people to see. Cobblestone becomes a powerful communication tool for your community.
Photo Galleries
Upload and share photos within your community. Galleries are associated with the community groups and you can tag keywords or people in the images. Upload a photo gallery of an event or even share images for a project you are working on.
Private Label Church Site
Cobblestone allows you to create your own domain and use your church brand/design. For example, your users can login to members.churchname.com and the site can share the look and feel of your public website.
Multisite/Organization Use
Cobblestone allows people and administrators to participate in multiple sites with ease. View and access numerous Cobblestone sites with one login. Our system provides a filter to find all of your messages or specific site messages, an easy way to manage or participate in multiple sites.
Public Website Integration
Cobblestone offers a unique ability to integrate with your public website for users of Ekklesia 360. This powerful integration allows you to share events, groups, member logins and numerous other features. By integrating, an event can be created and published on the public website as well as within Cobblestone. On the public site people can RSVP and make payments to attend the event, while within Cobblestone the planners can discuss the event and determine who will be there to help volunteer and serve. There are numerous powerful advantages to using the full integrated service offered with these tools. Contact us to learn more.
Prayer & Need Module
Allow people to share prayer requests and pray for one another. Prayers that are posted can include the urgency, be tagged to include the people or primary areas that need prayer. People can respond with encouragement, scripture or even let the person know they prayed for them. Prayers are shared within a community and can be private to a group or the community at large. Our prayer module follows up with the person who posted it to report back and see if the prayer was answered.
Group Management
Manage small groups, classes, discipleship groups, leadership groups, projects and more through Cobblestone. Our system puts these groups at the forefront encouraging participation by those who are included in Cobblestone. Groups can be public, require an administrator’s approval to join or they can be private by invitiation only. Determine the modules you would like to use for the group to create a 10-week class with curriculum or an ongoing small group to share prayer and study the Word together. Our Group Permission Agent helps put groups at the center of Cobblestone for your people to join.
Neighborhood Manager
Cobblestone allows you to view other people that live near you in your community. Want to see events by location? Use our neighborhood map to see which activities are taking place and where. The neighborhood manager can help you connect and be missional within the local communities you live in. They can also help with our Car Pool tool to suggest carpooling to events.
Assimilation System
Help people move into deeper relationships within your community. For example, if a new person joins your Cobblestone site, they can immediately be encouraged to join the small group nearest to them. Are they getting married? They could be invited to the pre-marital group. If they are a woman, you could have them automatically be part of the women's group. Our Group Permission Agent helps move people into the relational groups you determine through the GPA.
Facebook, Twitter & Social Media Integration
Cobblestone is not designed to replace social networking sites like Facebook. We want your community to create activities and events within Cobblestone and push these outside the private community to invite others. Create a missional basketball group, which in Cobblestone prays for and encourages each other to demonstrate Christ. Outside of Cobblestone it becomes a group of basketball players seeking others to join them. Cobblestone is designed to create missional pathways from the passions and interests of your community that already exist.
Resource Sharing
Upload and share resources. Have a class curriculum? Upload the files, audio or other resources from each class for preparation and access afterwards. Resource sharing is a powerful tool for your ministry.
Online Donations
Accept donations, offerings or other charitable giving within the Cobblestone framework. Our payment system is designed for non-profits and integrates with major credit card processing gateways. If you need to setup credit card processing for the first time, our team can assist with this process.
Classifieds
Allow people to post items for sale, new job openings and a variety of other items. Have a used car that you are willing to donate to a single mom? Do you need to sell your laptop? Does your company have a new opening for an administrator that you would like to bring someone from your church into? Posted items can be given or for sale within your community to assist one another.
Administrative Tools & Reports
Cobblestone provides you tools to help administrate small groups, classes and the people in your community. Our desire is that the tools we provide lower the cost in time and resources it takes you to be the church in your community. With Cobblestone your team can spend more time on the relationships rather than the administration of the church groups and events.
Customer Support & Development
Cobblestone is the creation of Monk Development. Our world-class support team is ready to assist you. We have built on the trust of thousands of churches, ministries and corporations that already use our products to manage their presence on the web. With Monk you have a trusted partner with deep experience in building and customizing web applications.
