There’s a saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”  Well, I’m happy to report that none of the features and improvements listed below are because MissionMakr has broken.  Nope.  In fact, I’m encouraged to say that MissionMakr is working just as it was built to work … as a powerful tool to help communicate and create impact for short term mission trips.

Thanks to input provided by our users across the country, we’ve gone back and tweaked a few things that will make the user experience even better.

Here goes!

Approving and dropping multiple users at once.
Now, with the click of your mouse, you can approve or drop MissionMembrs (those going on your trip) and MissionSupportrs (those following your trip) with the click of a mouse.

This is a big time saver!  If you have 50 people sign up to follow your trip, you can simply click on the checkmark next to each person’s name and click Save.

Viola’ … all 50 people are approved to follow your trip instantly!

What’s we’re working on:  the ability to automatically approve MissionSupportrs after your trip leaves for the field.  That way, people who sign up can be automatically approved to follow the trip without delay.

Fact: on average, we have 180 – 220 people following any given trip as MissionSupportrs.  That’s 180-220 people that have said, “Hey, I love missions and want to know what’s happening.”

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Hi, I’m Shelly Walker, and I’m just your average church employee and lover of missions. I don’t work for MissionMakr, and I don’t stand to profit by telling you why I think MissionMakr is cool. But I DO think MissionMakr is cool. And I want to tell you why I think it is cooler and more effective for short term mission trips than Facebook.

If you want to keep your family and friends informed and up-to-date with stories, videos, and pictures about what you’re doing while you’re on the mission field, you could use Facebook … it’s the go-to social platform, but let’s look a little closer …

Somewhere between the “Quiz” and Aunt Betty’s cat photos …
Using Facebook, your posts will show up amidst old Aunt Mildred’s latest recipe, cousin Betty’s cat photos, and the results of the “which super-hero” quiz your nephew just took. If your friends and family are Facebook friends with anyone between the ages of 13-19 they may have a really hard time finding anything you post, thanks to Twitter, “check-ins,” Instagram, and any other assortment of applications with strange names.

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