Community
Arena is designed around the elements necessary to build community: Communication, Coordination, Connection and Creativity. Because the Arena philosophy is People Oriented, it begins with the end in mind – empowering the church.

Communication
Arena’s close-the-back door approach provides excellent communication features. Contact and track communication to associates, members, guests, and your extended field of influence.

• Effortlessly send e-mails (automated, bulk, or individual).
• Easily create and organize calling campaigns.
• Organize and execute bulk mailing projects.
• Easily keep conversation and reminder notes.
• Monitor attendance and spiritual health indicators for simple and timely follow-up.
• Obtain important small group, serving, and ministry information quickly and effortlessly.

Coordination
Arena brings order, automation, and structure to your ministry endeavors. All-in-one capabilities streamline the entire front office to back office environment, encouraging total church participation. Create self-running ministries requiring minimal staff supervision and encouraging volunteer participation. No more repetitive tasks. Supervision is made easy by automated team activity tracking.

• Metrics and sub metrics are easily created and tracked.
• Applications and registrations are processed via the web.
• Information can be exported to Excel®, Word®, Outlook®, and bulk mailings.
  

Connection
Because Arena is a ministry system and a web authoring tool, it seamlessly connects your management database with your ministry tools.

• Connects everyone (church, members, guests, and your extended field of influence) with promotional events and communications.
• Website campaigns are super-efficient and automated, saving time administrating, publishing, and tracking.
• You enjoy the connectivity, security, and stability of the most widely used programming technologies; Microsoft’s SQL® and .NET® framework.
• The option of integrating Shelby System’s Financial Suite provides database continuity and integrity of data.
• You are free to choose the hosting option that best suits you. True to Shelby philosophy, your data is yours.

Creativity
Creativity flourishes in a fun, flexible, and collaborative environment.

• This chameleon-like user interface is completely customizable, enabling you to achieve more cohesive communication and branding.
• Because Arena is truly user-friendly, you spend less time and energy on training, supervision, and task execution, leaving more time and energy for creativity, inspiration, and growing your ministry.
• Arena provides unlimited growth potential as your ministry system and design needs expand.
• The system is flexible to your church needs, preferences, procedures, and ministry approach.
• Quickly bring an idea to reality using Arena’s built-in promotion tools.