RCL Music Ministry 7.0

RCL Music Ministry 7.0 is a good supporting tool for dealing with music. This is a software that was inspired by First Baptist Church of Oneida, Oneida, Tennessee. This program was designed with the guidance of Pastor Brian Elliott, Minister of Music, at First Baptist of Oneida and Pastor Neal Johnson, Minister of Music, Nansemond River Baptist Church. A church can use this program to maintain all of the churches music, performance history and copyright obligations. In addition all choir members contact information and participation can be maintained. Lastly an inventory of the instruments and equipment can be maintained along with a detailed history of repair and maintenance. Some of the data for each song is: title, artist, composer, arranger, orchestra parts, custom alphanumeric library number, and the copyright administrator.

This software can helps to enter any number of themes into a search list for later access; enter lyrics for each song and print them at any time, including exporting to Microsoft Word©. Maintain the churches music library; enter the type of storage medium, custom library number, title, arranger, composer, publisher, cost, when purchased, list orchestra parts, and more! In addition to the basic information of name and address the following can be saved, is the person a vocalist, soloist, what voice part, do they play an instrument, if so what instrument. Personal data like birthday, and attendance.

Moreover, it can help to enter all the ensembles the person belongs and their level of stewardship. See at a glance the performance history of a soloist; plan for each service a worship order; show the song title, collection source, ensemble, soloist, date, service and copyright information. The worship order is defined first by the scheduled performance date. It can be further defined by ensemble. When the performance is complete click on the Update button to create or increment the history of each song title, collection, ensemble and soloist. You can enter the path for a song and play it by clicking a button.

Major Features:

1. Plays audio and video files associated with existing collection song titles.
2. Selects your favorite media player allowing audio/video files to be played without exiting RCL Music Ministry.
3. Reports Designer for songs, collections, and choir.
4. Backups now a separate program.
5. Added tool for user defined screen font style and size.
6. New window resize strategy.
7. Maintains songs and access by title, author, category and unlimited themes.  Design queries to view selected songs with specific criteria.
8. Maintains a collection list - CD, Tapes and the songs on each.
9. Easy to use Worship List allows you to select songs for multiple performance dates, select musical score from collection, assign an ensemble and/or soloist. 
10. Updates history with one click!  Add to copyright obligation, index the song use count and collection use count.  Both song and collection will be updated with the last date it was performed.
11. Features a custom Query Designer allowing you to maintain, run and save import queries.
12. Prints reports using the Query Designer or print all data.
13. Maintains an inventory of all equipment; robes, instruments, and electronics.  When purchased, price, insurance and keep a text history of repairs and maintenance.
14. Maintains a roster of all members.  Each member can be assigned to more than one ensemble.  If the member is a soloist one click view all songs they have performed and when.  Click to view details.
15. Added choir attendance history file with viewing and reporting.
16. If your church has a network the RCL Music Ministry program is multi-user.  (Your system administrator will need to set this up!)
17. An import function for the song and collection files. You design your own export file to match either; dBase, Delimited ASCII (comma, tab, pipe and semicolon), and Flat ASCII.

Enhancements:

• Outlook style menu has been added for the most frequently used functions.
• Added Quick List report option to many list box windows. Either print a standard report, export to Excel or other options.
• New report output interface with many options including printing to a PDF file.
• New bulk email addressed to all choir members, or only selected members.  For instance email only the members of a specific ensemble.  Now uses SMTP and no longer depends on the default MAPI email client.  Will not work with mail forwarders like Hotmail or Yahoo.