Reporting Church Position Information

Positions recorded on the Church tab for a minister contain three pieces of information that connect the position to the general minister database: the church PIN, the minister PIN, and the position code. For regional staff to compare and report church position information to the general minister database correctly and completely, these values must be available in the regional database.

When comparing church positions in the regional database with church positions in the general database, CDM+ also looks at the position start date.

Church PIN

The church PIN is the six-character code that identifies a congregation across the life of Disciples. The church PIN not only connects congregations in the regional and general databases for minister reporting, but it also identifies congregations in the Treasury Services database of giving data and in the yearbook database of congregational data.

Regional staff record the church PIN on the Address tab of the Church Record in CDM+ Regional. For a church position to report correctly to the general minister database, the church PIN for the congregation shown with the position must have a Church Record with a PIN that matches the PIN of a Church Record in the general minister database.

The Information pane on the Church Record in CDM plus Regional.

Minister PIN

The minister PIN is a nine-digit code that uniquely identifies a minister in the general minister database. Before submitting any minister changes from the regional database for an existing minister the general database, the Individual Record for the minister must have a PIN that matches the minister’s record in the general minister database. The minister PIN connects the records in each database. A region must have oversight of the minister’s standing in order to submit changes for the minister.