Annual Reporting for Churches
It's time once again for this important effort that enables the United Church of Christ to maintain accurate and current information on UCC churches and ministerial staff, as well as provide information that will assist Conferences, Associations and the national ministries of the denomination to identify and understand trends in membership, attendance and other factors that will impact programs and policies.
Step 1: Submit Projected Giving and Church Officers forms no later than February 9, 2024.
If your church hasn't had its congregational meeting to approve your 2024 budget, the 2024 Pledge Form should still be sent in with estimates. The Conference can't complete its 2024 budget until we have pledges from all the churches, so it's vital that we at least have estimates from you to work with.
We need EVERY CHURCH to fill out, scan, and return these manual forms no later than FEBRUARY 9 to Wende at wgonzales@uccswc.org (click below to access and print).
Church Officers (please scan completed officers forms in landscape/horizontal orientation, NOT portrait/vertical)
If the final numbers change, please send your revisions to Dean at financeoffice@uccswc.org and copy Wende on them at wgonzales@uccswc.org.
Step 2: Submit annual reporting forms no later than March 6, 2024.
There are two options for reporting your data: enter it ONLINE directly into Data Hub, OR fill out and submit MANUAL FORMS.
Option 1: ONLINE DATA HUB INSTRUCTIONS
(If your church prefers not to use Data Hub, please skip this part and scroll down to the manual form instructions.)
Everything you need is on this website. This website contains video tutorials and information sheets to assist you in using the Data Hub to submit the annual data. The most important link on there is the Data Hub reporting instructions!
Data Hub access and instructions are included in the instructions, including password information (your password has been reset from last year). You’ll need your five or six digit conference church ID number; if you don't know it, please contact Wende.
Important requirement: You MUST print a 2023 Church Report from Datahub (BEFORE logging out) and email a copy to Wende by March 6. The conference doesn’t have access to print this report, and we won't know if your church has finished its reporting unless we receive your Church Report.
NOTE: Average Worship Attendance reported should only be for in-person worship. There is a place to report about virtual worship in the Supplemental Survey.
The Data Hub will be available until March 6 at midnight EST. Please submit your data as early as possible to avoid potential delays if you should need assistance. Churches that complete their annual report AND answer the supplemental research questions will be entered in a drawing for one of several gifts.
Option 2: MANUAL FORM INSTRUCTIONS
Click here to access and print the form. We’ll be using the same form as the online reporting; simply scroll down to page 7 to fill out the form manually. Pages 1 - 6 do have some helpful tips to clarify the data that’s being collected.
Once it’s completed, please scan it and email it to Wende at wgonzales@uccswc.org or send it by U.S. Mail to Southwest Conference United Church of Christ, PO Box 44968, Phoenix AZ 85064-4968. If you mail copies to the conference office, please notify Wende that you're doing so, allow for postal service delays, and be sure to make and keep a set of copies for your records.
If SPANISH / español is the primary language of the person reporting, here is the reporting form en Español. It will be linked here when available. Please return that to Wende when completed, and NOT to the national setting. And here are 12 Razones importantes para informar los datos anuales de la iglesia.
We need the completed manual forms returned no later than March 6 to allow us time to input the data.
If you require information regarding the previous years reporting, please contact Wende.