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Introduction
The following list of known Adoration Servants projects was written up at the request of a potential funds finder, a Eucharistic adorer know to Steve Lovison, the founder of Adoration Servants, through their mutual adoration in the chapels of Huntington Beach. When Steve told this person of Adoration Servants’ 501(c)(3) status as a fully tax-deductible organization and its various planned projects, he asked Steve to provide him with a general list of projects and cost estimates for these projects. This is not a detailed project requirements list by any means. Developing these applications will cost thousands of dollars. Everything AdoraitonServants has done to-date has been financed, and is still being financed, by Steve Lovison. Development is done by Steve or people he pays to help him as his personal finances can handle it. Computer development takes a lot of money and often organizations pay extreme amounts with questionable results. Steve Lovison makes his living via his professional Computer Consulting organization, JXP Solutions, by supporting corporations who have experienced these painful development projects. They pay Steve and his team to do projects better and for less money than could be done otherwise.
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Content Management System (CMS) Template Website
Complete development of a Content Management Website template that can be provided to Eucharistic Adoration organizations such that AdorationServants can provide them with a method that allows them to have attractive, useful, informative websites to go with their work. The current www.adorationservants.org and www.friendsforlifegolf.org make use of the CMS site as it exists at this time. The San Antonio Eucharistic Adoration website www.adore24.org makes use of a CMS website created and supported by AdorationServants but it is not the same version. Currently the Chicago Eucharistic Adoration website, www.pjp2ea.org, also developed, hosted, and maintained by AdorationServants is looking to revamp their website. They have quotes ranging from $9,000 to over $20,000 and the results will be of questionable functionality. The Archdiocese of New Orleans also had an adoration website developed by AdorationServants that was somewhat abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. The current AdorationServants CMS template website allows for the addition of pages and menu items along with a number of custom pages but there are limited flexibility on the menu levels, locations, and master page designs. Comprehensive language translation capabilities are also needed. Indeed, AdorationServants has been in contact with Franciscans in the Holy land, who have expressed the need for help with Adoration within the walls of Jerusalem. Many Adoration organizations need multi-language capabilities. AdorationServants has experience with this as shown at www.cambro.com which is a CMS system available in many languages all by the click of a dropdown list at the top of each web page.
"Find an Adoration Chapel" Search Enhancements
Currently AdorationServants has developed a very useful chapel search for both the Chicago (http://www.pjp2ea.org/pjp2ea/search.asp) and San Antonio (http://www.adore24.org/easa/chapels.aspx) Eucharistic Adoration websites. These systems need to be consolidated and the maintenance programs improved. Web services need to be created to facilitate easy adoption by other dioceses so the data can be made available at the diocesan level. In addition GOOGLE Mapping functionality needs to be incorporated into the systems, which were developed well before these newer mapping and direction capabilities were available. It should also be noted that unlike most Chapel locators, AdorationServants takes date ranges into consideration. If, for example, you find yourself in downtown Chicago, chapels having Exposition will be different if you are there on a 1st Friday or a 2nd Friday. The Adoration servants system can tell you where exposition is taking place right now!
"Find an Adoration Chapel" Mobile Smart Phone Apps
Develop smart phone apps so that people may use the GPS location on their phone to find the nearest chapel. As an example, let’s say you are on vacation in Chicago and driving your rent-a-car to the Field Museum. As you drive within a range of an adoration chapel you will be notified that there is Eucharistic adoration within a few minutes of your destination, or somewhere between your hotel and the museum.
Adoration Servants Chapel Management Scheduling Support
At the heart of AdorationServants is the web-based system used by Adoration Chapels to manage their day-to-day chapel activities. Adorers can sign up, be scheduled for hours, request substitutes, etc. While chapel leaders who use the AdorationServants system have so much less work to do than those who manage their chapels by other methods there can still be a lot of work. One area is sending out sub requests. In a 24/7 chapel with just a few vacant hours, this can mean many hours to fill and many emails to send and keep track of. Currently AdorationServants is in the process of developing a Substitute Calendar system so sub emails can be consolidated and managed. Rather than just email or call the chapel leader, adorers who volunteer to sub can update the system themselves. In addition reminder emails would be nice to send out, or reminder text messages. Automated updating of personal calendars is desired. All this to make keeping adorers present with as little stress and work as possible.
Adoration Servants Adorer Phone App
Create a comprehensive phone app so adorers can see what is going on at their chapel, the substitutes needed, the hours vacant, their own schedule, their past attendance. The phone app could also provide a method to "signing in" at a chapel. The adorer checks in and out on their phone such the time and GPS location show the adorer was at their scheduled time or whatever time at the chapel.
Implement SIFTMail and Integrate to AdorationServants Databases
Much of what has already been developed by Steve Lovison, founder of AdorationServants, is often the result of incorporating systems developed by his small computer consulting company. One such tool is SIFTMail, which is a more robust emailing system. This system has been partially implemented into AdorationServants system but nowhere near to the degree it should be. This system could be used by both the CMS website system as well as the Chapel Management system.
Social Networking Issues and Incorporation
Social Networking Issues – Facebook, Blog, Forum, Twitter, Chatroom, Surveys. These are all areas where Adoration Chapels are doing things as they can and most don’t make much use of the Social media tools.
Knights of Columbus Campaign and Other
The Knights of Columbus can literally be the Knights in Shining armor for Eucharistic Adoration around the nation, and even around the world. It is totally within their stated missions and speeches but yet, they have not made it a focus. When they do, Eucharistic adoration will flourish and fruits will be amazing. When AdorationServants mentioned this to a former State Chaplain for the Knights, he was laughed at. When the suggestion that Knights be recruited to fill significant time slots at local adoration chapels, the chapel leaders expressed more than a little pessimism that the Knights would ever champion such a spiritual mission. Someone needs to push the Knights to take on this mission. It takes time and money to target this resource. AdorationServants would very much like to "lobby" the Knights of Columbus but attending conferences, writing letters to the National and State Chaplains, National and State Council Leadership, Chapels where the Knights have a presence in the parish. This would all be to get the Knights more involved as heroes and champions of Eucharistic Adoration. There would be other needs as well such as email and web advertising through sites such as Zenit, Facebook, and other popular Catholic websites.
OcccupyAdoration and General AdorationServants Site Development
AdorationServants is planning to be on Catholic Radio sometime in the near future. Preparation for this is how the www.adorationservants.org site got to the public state it is currently in which, while not near and good as it should be, is much better than it was several months ago when there was no concern (due to time and costs) for what the public say. We only cared about the chapel leaders. In addition to the general site development where we need to better state the mission and our needs we have also created www.occupyadoration.org as an answer to the Occupy Movement. We plan to have adoration events. Extremely critical is our next event, Occupy Adoration Election Day November 6th, where we are asking Catholics in the United States to spend the entire day in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, except when they are voting or eating(unless they fast instead). How to get the word out en masse for that event. We will purchase a Zenit email and try to reach our very limited following in the social media but we just don’t have the resources to aggressively promote this.
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