Uses & Benefits for Churches

Open the door to ongoing, daily outreach to your community without increasing your workload by letting Meet The Need do nearly all of the administrative work for you! As Acts 6:2 says, “…it is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.” Let Meet The Need “serve tables” – we’ve automated all the processes for getting needs posted, finding the person who can meet those needs and making sure they gets met.

Provide low-risk, high-impact opportunities for your members, attendees and “Teams” to meet the needs of families and ministries in your area, sharing God’s love in a powerful way. We know many people feel more comfortable serving in groups and we know many pastors ask their Bible Study groups to get involved in a service project. But often, no one in the group knows of any opportunities that fit the group’s skills and interests. However, Meet The Need empowers leaders within your church to talk to others about the kinds of outreach project they’d like to do, search the database for the right opportunities, and then decide as a group which one it wants to meet. You can even let your Team leaders post resource and volunteer needs for upcoming outreach projects within your own church or out to the entire network of churches, ministries, companies and individuals using Meet The Need.

Save hours spent fielding calls and e-mails from local families or ministries, trying to find someone in your church who can help, and following up to make sure it got done! Encourage ministries you work with to register with Meet The Need and post their needs directly for your members to see. Refer local families to Meet The Need’s 24x7 Call Center (and Prayer Line) to speak with our caring representatives, who will lovingly listen to their situation and post their needs so that your members can see if they can help those families.

View and track all need and commitment activity taking place through your church, whether through individuals or “teams”, on your own access-controlled church “Dashboard”.

Show your community that you truly care about them. Even encourage your members to invite local families they help to come to your church.

Using a common, state-of-the-art platform enables all local churches and ministries to truly work together to reach that community for Christ.

Post and instantly broadcast your church’s material and volunteer needs, whether they’re for the church itself or for your upcoming service projects or outreach events, out to your members and to the entire network of churches, ministries and individuals using Meet The Need.

Post service or material needs on behalf of a family that your church wants to help for your members to see or out to the Meet The Need user community. When you do so, you should take appropriate steps to understand the background of the family and the legitimacy of their needs.

Meet The Need includes categories for needs of individual missionaries, or items needed by families being served by missionaries, and even opportunities for individuals with particular skills to go on an upcoming (e.g. medical) missions trip – and all of these categories are searchable by any country and major city in the world!

Arrange and manage complex outreach events with much less effort. Coordinate within your church or across multiple churches to pull all available resources together quickly and easily for any event, large or small. And save hours trying to make sure everyone is in the right place at the right time. With Meet The Need, you’ll know what each person is supposed to do and where they should be – and each of them will know too because they’ll see that information on their personal accounts and in their automated e-mail reminders.

Give your web site a power boost by using our Application Service Provider (ASP) option to let your members search for needs that fit their skills and interests, get a dedicated view of your organization’s needs and keep track of their own outreach activities.

Leverage Meet The Need’s best-practice legal documentation to protect your church from mishaps during or after delivery of items or services

With Meet The Need, each family is “tagged” to a single church or ministry so sharing a common database means you know whether someone has already approached other local organizations looking for help and can see what needs have been posted for them!

Respond quickly to urgent volunteer and resource needs posted on Meet The Need by churches and ministries inside the impact zone

By connecting with the pastors and staff of other Meet The Need member churches