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| | The Pastor's Study
The Pastor’s Study program produced by RCL Software was designed with the help of many pastors. Who better than the person who is going to use the program? We feel blessed by the number of positive comments that have received from the pastors who have done an evaluation. When you receive your purchased copy it can be installed on your church network allowing unlimited users. Imagine you and your administrative assistant accessing and entering data at the same time! Visit our awards page to view industry software ratings. | |
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| |  Click to view preview of general features of The Pastor's Study
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| | Read Review by Terry Wilhite columnist for Pulpit Helps | |
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| | Terry Wilhite continues to bless us. Read the February 2006 review! | |
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| | Click to read the December 2005 Christian Computing review of The Pastor's Study in PDF format just as the article appears in the online magazine. | |
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| |  Click here to view the HTML online User Manual. This manual is an HTML version of The Pastor's Study help file that is included in the installation. It is also similar to the User Manual in Adobe Acrobat format that is also included in the installation file. | |
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| |  Click to read the version history of The Pastor's Study. | |
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| | The Pastor's Study Features | |
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| |  Favorites can now be entered so you can easily LISTEN to or read examples of sermons. Save your favorites to your hard drive and add them to the database. The link will be saved allowing a single click to start the recording, audio or video, playing. Any number of favorites may be added with any number of sermons per favorite. | |
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| | Using your Internet device you may connect to the Library of Congress to speed up data entry of your library collection. Click to view sample. | |
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| |  The sermon section of The Pastor's Study allow all or either of these features; cataloging, tracking, and/or preparation. This program will access your favorite programs used to write the sermon. It will also link your sermons and your personal library to each other through a common subject. Each sermon and each resource can have unlimited subjects! Click to view Sermon detail and sample screens | |
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| | Audio and video links have been added to: Sermons, Illustrations, Journal, Favorites and Counseling sessions. By selecting a file that exists on your hard drive you are able to hear and/or view it. | |
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| | Maintain your personal library using the Dewey decimal system. You will be able to search using author, title and subject. Print spine labels for each book and arrange them in Dewey decimal order. The library and sermons share subjects; this allows you to quickly find a book for a sermon. If a church member asks for more information about the sermon topic you can suggest a specific book. If you loan out your copy enter the name of the person you loaned it to in the Location data field. This way you can keep up with all your resources. You can export all your library data to MS Excel. Click to view Library detail and sample screens | |
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| | Added a tool for the user to define the font style and size for all of the programs windows. The default font is MS Sans Serif 8 point | |
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| | The powerful Query Designer is now available on many of the maintenance windows. Every report created with the Report Designer also has access to the Query Designer. This tool will walk you though the design of the most complicated query. | |
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| | The relation of subjects has always been important in The Pastors Study. When the first version was released in 2002 there was a relation between the resources in the library and your sermons. That field is the subjects. Now the Illustrations and the new Favorites also share the same subject file. Now you can use the subject file to see every sermon, illustration, favorite and library resource with that subject. In addition you can add the results of other subject searches to the same list. Once complete use Quick List to print a report. | |
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| | New in version 6.0 is a Report Designer. This powerful new feature allows you to create the report you need. Add the Query Designer and you have a very powerful reporting tool. | |
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| | Keep a detailed list of illustrations for future use by date, category, and multiple key words. Create and use your own definitions to ease searching for just the right story, joke or other illustration. Click to view Illustration sample screens. Illustration subjects have been redesigned so they share the same subject parent file as Sermons, Favorites, and Library resources. | |
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| | Using The Pastor's Study you can keep a diary of your own personal thoughts and activities using the Journal feature. Click to view journal diary and sample screens. | |
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| | The Counseling section of The Pastor's Study is password protected allowing privacy in this multi-user application. Each session is recorded individually making review easy and fast. When you set an appointment there is the option to add it to your appointment calendar. Click to view Counseling detail and sample screens Some pastors are licensed counselors who need to record their sessions. A new feature is the ability to play either these audio or video session recordings. In addition there is a link to play session notes that have been recorded using another program. | |
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| | Visitation Diary allows the tracking of each person or persons you visit. Optionally create an appointment and add it to your appointment calendar. Click to view Visitation detail and sample screens. | |
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| | Maintain your personal prayer list. Requests have a status showing if the request is been answered or it is waiting on the Lord's time. Click to view Prayer List detail and sample screens | |
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| | We now have an improved calendar and appointment schedule. You may add appointments and tasks, assign each to a resource. There is no limit to the number of resources you may add. Click to view information about the new calendar and appointment schedule. | |
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| | Using the Contact Manager you may keep a list of all contacts including: 4 telephone numbers, email address, type of service to the church, and the skills the contact has offered to share with the church. Email contacts from within The Pastor's Study. Import contacts from MS® Outlook with just a few clicks. Click to view Contact detail and sample screens. | |
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| | Expense recording and reporting has also been added. Track expenses in detail by organization and event. Print out a report to submit for each organization within a specified date range. Click to view Expense detail and sample screens. | |
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| | Honorariums can be tracked and reported using The Pastor's Study. | |
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| | An import function for the sermon, library, contact files. You design your own export file to match either; dBase, Delimited ASCII (comma, tab, pipe and semicolon), and Flat ASCII. | |
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| | An export function has been added to compliment the many other export options available. The files that may be exported are sermons, library resources and expenses. | |
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| | Many of the program windows displaying a list box has a new feature called Quick List. Click the Quick List button to print the contents of the list box to a standard report, Excel, RTF document or CSV file. | |
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| | Use the Enter key as well as the Tab key to move to the next field. | |
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| | List box columns may be resized as in MS Excel. | |
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| | Frequently Asked Questions about The Pastor's Study | |
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