CASA

Context

A small church runs on volunteers and a long list of weekly tasks: planning the service, scheduling musicians and children’s teachers, keeping the accounts, publishing the sermon. CASA is its public website and the internal platform behind it.

Constraints

• Most users are volunteers with little time, so each of eleven roles sees only its own tools.
• Reminders have to reach people where they already are, which in Chile means WhatsApp.
• Finance and payroll must follow Chilean rules for pensions, health and withholding.

Key decisions

• A service builder assembles the whole liturgy from its parts and exports the leader’s guide as a PDF and the slides for projection.
• Rosters combine each volunteer’s availability with the calendar, then send confirmations and reminders by WhatsApp seven days and one day before.
• The finance module imports Chilean bank statements, reconciles them and compares budget with actuals.
• Meetings can be recorded in the browser; the system transcribes them and drafts the minutes and commitments.

Where it stands

The public site and the internal platform are in use by the community. An audio module for publishing sermons is being finished.