OnRealm is our online tool for managing the business of the church. All members known to the treasurer already have a profile of some kind at our OnRealm site. What you may not know is how you can manage that profile to simplify the ways that you give of your time, talent, and treasure. This Sunday, October 3, at around 11:45 am following the end of the service, we will be holding a reasonably brief training session to familiarize ourselves with OnRealm. We will be covering the following:
Creating your own log-in and editing your personal information
How to find and express interest in volunteer roles
How to give to specific missions or pay your pledge
How to find and search the online membership directory
A brief self-directed overview is included below. To get here, look for the invitation from Memorial that came from OnRealm.org. It should have a link to set up your login. Once you have logged in you should see the following page:
When you log in to OnRealm.org you will land on this Newsfeed page. We will, in the future, be updating the newsfeed weekly to coincide with the e-News and any updates that may fall between e_news blasts.
To access your profile, click on your name in the upper right hand corner, circled in red here.
When you click on your name you will see a few account management options. For now, click on the My Profile option.
From here you can Edit your profile, circled in red; check events upcoming (when we have put them on the Realm calendar); check your pledge status or donate to a specific mission (e.g. flowers, or Afghan refugees) in the blue circle; see which groups you are a member of; manage your serving roles, including your availability; and search the directory to communicate with other members. Lets start with Serving
If you click on the 3 dots, circled in red above, you can edit which days of the week you are available to serve, and let us know which dates, typically which Sundays, you are definitely not available. This is incredibly helpful when we are crafting a schedule for Sundays, and the more dedicated we all are to this, the fewer emails everyone will get asking for clarification!
If you are interested in trying something new, or something old that you are not currently doing, you can click on the Opportunities tab, circled in purple toward the top of the screen. When you do, you will land here:
Most of these roles come with a description. Some of those descriptions are, as yet, incomplete. We will be filling them out in the days to come. Some roles require training and approval - we are MORE than happy to train any and all, all it takes is your indication of interest.
That is all for this week. We will have another self-directed overview as we get closer to Stewardship Sunday.