PDS Ministry Scheduler lightens the task of coordinating and assigning ministers for the various functions at Sunday and weekly liturgies. Although created for Catholic Masses, this program is adaptable to other denominations. You can assign up to 15 liturgical minister types [Servers, Lectors, Eucharistic Ministers, Ushers, Head Ushers, Greeters or Others] in a chronological fashion and accommodate ministry preferences.
A minister can specify "Bad Days" of the week where he or she is unable to serve
Specify up to three "Away Periods", giving both a beginning and ending date, that a minister is not available
Even or odd weeks of the year can be flagged as periods when the minister can not be scheduled. This is for the benefit of people who work on alternate weeks not corresponding to specific weeks in a month
Individual family members are never scheduled at different times on the same weekend, but it is also possible to prohibit people in the same family from serving together
A minister can select up to three Preferred Masses at which to serve. You can select if the preferred Masses are always assigned in the order in which they were entered or are rotated among the preferences.
A minister also can specify up to three "Don't Want" Masses, for which he/she will NOT be assigned
It is permissible for a minister to be commissioned in more than one ministry. In this case, he/she will be alternated among these ministries.
It is possible to assign a particular person to a specific Mass, bypassing the scheduling engine. (As an example, there might be a special wedding anniversary mass that you want the couple's son to serve)
You can group ministers so they will always serve together
There are three types of Masses defined, PERMANENT MASSES that are celebrated the same time each weekend, DAILY MASSES that are celebrated during the week, and SPECIAL MASSES, such as the Easter Vigil mass, that occur at a specific time and date. Since you might want different groups of people to be assigned to each of these masses, you are able to indicate for each minister the type of mass that they are permitted to be assigned.
The output format includes spreadsheets, mailing labels, custom reports, and telephone contact sheets. These reports can be sent to the printer or exported as text or RTF documents for inclusion in your word processor for further formatting.
Synchronizes with PDS Church Office enabling you to synchronize names and addresses between the PDS Church Office Ministry Tab and PDS Ministry Scheduler.
The program will automatically check for duplicate records when you are adding or editing a minister or mass.
