A connections hire, without the hiring. Your Activation Specialist joins your team for one season (three months) or longer, and supports your activation where your church needs it most. Your leaders reach your people. You keep the people, the data, and every decision.
An add-on to Martha Complete, for churches of 100 and up. Also available when a church that has run Martha adds Andrew, Saul or Solomon.
Your Inventory Read gave you a list of people who said yes to something. Moving with that list takes time, and many churches do not have someone whose job it is. Your Specialist knows the method and supports your team in your name, with the list in hand.
Either way, your people stay with your church and your team leads what comes next. With Activation Support, an Activation Specialist from our team supports your activation season.
Every season runs in your portal in the same four phases. Here is how your Specialist can support each one, shaped around what your church needs. You make the decisions.
Your Specialist can set up access, confirm your church management system is connected, and walk your staff through your Inventory Read, so the season starts from your own people's answers.
Your Specialist can help you walk the Alignment map, pick your teams (at least 2, with 2 to 4 suggested), and find a leader for each, so every person has somewhere to land.
Your leaders get their people, have the next-move talk and place them on a team. Your Specialist can prepare the weekly list and help your team keep the rhythm.
Your Specialist can prepare the Season Handoff, every team with its leader and roster, and walk you through the before and after, so the work stays with your church.
Before the season, Launch Sunday opens a 30-day window for your people to text in and take the read. Your Specialist can walk your team through the Church Context Intake and set up who has access and at what level. Your church's main account holder connects your church management system in the admin portal, and your Specialist can confirm it. Your Specialist can also walk you and your staff through your Inventory Read in plain language.
Your Inventory Read, in plain languageYou plan your season together in about thirty minutes: See it, Name it, Decide it. Your Specialist can help you walk the Alignment map from the biggest gap, pick your teams (at least 2, with 2 to 4 suggested), and use Find a leader to name a leader for each from your own people. You make the personal asks to those leaders. Your Specialist can prepare them and help make sure none of them stall. Each team gets an Install Pack.
See it · Name it · Decide itEach leader gets their people, has the next-move talk with each one, and places those who say yes on a team. Your leaders reach your people. Your Specialist's support is shaped around what your church needs and looks different in every church: it can include preparing the weekly list, helping your pastor and point person run the rhythm, and helping with outreach in your church's name where you ask. Each week you can see who has moved, who is waiting, and who has no one yet. Around week 8, your Specialist prepares a Mid-Point Report that shows what is moving and what is not.
Mid-Point Report around week 8Leaders start developing leaders. Around week 11, your Specialist prepares the Season Handoff: every team, with its named leader and its roster. Around day 90, the people who walked the three days answer again, and you see the before and after. Then you close the season. If your church management system is connected, the fields you picked go to it one more time.
Before and after, around day 90If you continue past your first season, your Specialist brings a short written brief to your staff meeting each quarter and supports your next season with you.
The number we move together is your activation rate: of the people who walked the three days, how many now serve on a team.
When your Specialist helps with outreach, every text and call comes from a line in your church's name. If you already use a texting service, you add your Specialist to it, and your people hear from the number they already know. If you do not, we set up a line for your church. It carries your church's name, and it stays open for as long as you keep the service.
Your Specialist never uses a personal phone, and the portal itself never messages your people.
The only texts our system sends are the ones your people opted into: the three-day journey itself, its reminders, and The One Question if you run it. Every one of them is listed on the What gets sent page in your portal.
When the service ends, the line is yours to keep or close, and you receive a copy of its conversations.
If your Specialist helps with outreach, your pastor first introduces them to your church, from the stage or by email. We give you the words.
Your Specialist always introduces themselves as helping your church. A first text reads like this:
Your Specialist supports the work. Your church keeps everything that matters, and sees all of it.
Anyone your Specialist talks with is handed to one of your leaders inside the season.
Which teams open, who leads them, who is asked, what you do with the read. Your Specialist can recommend and help carry it out. You decide.
It belongs to your church. Export it from the People Tracker or send it to your church management system whenever you want.
If your Specialist hears something that needs a pastor (a crisis, grief, conflict, a leader stepping back), it goes to your designated pastor the same day. Your Specialist does not counsel and does not carry that conversation.
Preaching, worship, and theology stay with you. We never touch Sunday.
Your Specialist's work shows in your portal under their name: what they did this week and what they need from you. You can end their access at any time.
Martha Complete gives you the Inventory Read, the Activation Season and your Activation Portal. Activation Support adds a person to support the work.
Activation Support is an add-on to Martha Complete, which includes the Inventory Read, your Activation Portal, and 12 months of access. It is also available when a church that has run Martha adds Andrew, Saul or Solomon. Those projects and The One Question are purchased separately. Leadership, vision, and strategic planning is a separate Advisory engagement.
Activation Support adds a person from our team to your season. It is an add-on to Martha Complete, priced by your typical Sunday attendance: everyone you invite, not only those who respond.
per month, for your activation season. Three-month minimum: one full season.
Only if you want that, and only on your behalf. How much outreach your Specialist does depends on what your church needs. If they help with outreach, they text and call from a line in your church's name, under your written authorization, and always introduce themselves as helping your church. Anyone can reply STOP at any time. Anyone they talk with is introduced to one of your leaders inside the season. Their work in your portal is recorded under their name, you see a summary each week, and you can end their access at any time.
A line in your church's name. If you already use a texting service, you add your Specialist to it. If you do not, we set up a line for your church and keep it open as long as you keep the service. At the end, it is yours to keep or close. Our system never sends outreach to your people, and your Specialist never uses a personal phone.
It goes to your designated pastor the same day. Your Specialist helps connect people to serving and belonging. They do not counsel, and they do not carry care conversations. Your team leaders can also raise a concern with Tell the pastor from their private link.
You can, and for some churches that is the right call. A hire takes months to find and months more to learn your church, and the role tends to turn over. Your Specialist starts with the read in hand, brings the portal and the method, and has the next season planned before this one ends.
Name your team leaders and make the personal asks to them. Add your Specialist to your texting service if you have one. Answer the short list in "What I need from you." Hold a weekly check-in in season. Your leaders reach your people, and your Specialist supports the rest, shaped around what your church needs.
On your own, your team makes every call and text from your own phones, and the portal guides each step. With Activation Support, an Activation Specialist from our team supports your activation season, helping where your church needs it, while your leaders reach your people. Both run inside the same Activation Portal.
Your people are already with your leaders, and your data stays in your portal and your church management system. You can continue into the next season, step back to a lighter rhythm, or carry it forward with your own team.
Your Specialist's time is set by the size of your church, and their support is shaped around what your church needs. Your own leaders reach your people.
They show as No one yet in your People Tracker until one of your leaders has them. Each campus's default owner works them from My default list, and This week brings the few who need someone first to the top.
Only the fields your church picks, like team, stage, and next step. They go when you tap Sync now, and once more automatically when you close the season, if your church management system is connected. Changes you make there don't flow back.
It's yours to keep or close, and you receive a copy of its conversations.
Activation Support usually begins after a church has seen its first read. If that is where you are, or close, we would be glad to talk about your people and what the next season could hold.
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