The starting point
Like most districts, ETNDI ran its operations on a stack of separate tools that never quite talked to each other. Camp registrations went through a generic event platform. Waivers were paper, then PDFs, then sometimes lost. Payments to the right ministry treasury required manual reconciliation. Monthly attendance numbers came in by email, into a spreadsheet, with someone chasing down the late churches by phone. The district leadership page on the website showed two-year-old photos of three former committee members.
None of those tools were bad in isolation. The cost was the seams between them.
What changed
Naz.tools replaced the seams with one suite. ETNDI now runs on four integrated components that share one source of truth for churches and people:
- Naz.tools Events for Man Camp, Family Camp, Teen Camp, the Marriage Enrichment Retreat, and Inspire — Stripe payments routed to the correct ministry treasury, e-signed waivers, and tablet kiosk check-in at Foothill Campground.
- Naz.tools Attendance for monthly attendance reporting from every church on the district, with automated SMS and email reminders and a district-wide rollup dashboard.
- Naz.tools Directory for the public church finder and the district leadership registry — the same church records that drive Events and Attendance.
- Naz.tools Team for displaying the right people — district leadership, the District Superintendent's office, NYI, NDI, and NMI auxiliary leaders — on the right page, pulling from the same directory.
One household can register a family of five for Family Camp, sign waivers for the children, pay the correct auxiliary account, and check in via QR code when they arrive at Foothill — all from one login, against the same church record their pastor uses to file the monthly attendance report.
What's running today
- Event registration with household-aware booking for district events and camps
- Stripe payments routed per event to the correct district, church, or ministry account
- E-signature waivers for camp attendees, including minors — stored on AWS S3 with HIPAA-aligned controls
- Tablet kiosk check-in for multi-day camps with QR-code scanning
- "My Events" self-service for staff who run events, with role-scoped editing and an admin filter for the district office
- Monthly attendance reporting by every church on the district, with automated SMS reminders for delinquent reporters and a live district-rollup dashboard
- Public church finder with phone-verified gating before contact details surface
- District leadership pages driven by a real registry — every team grid pulls from the same source, so an updated photo or a new committee member appears everywhere automatically
- Full audit trail for every booking, payment, waiver, and attendance submission
What we learned (that informs the product for everyone else)
- Households, not individuals, are the unit of registration. Every form that asked one parent to register one child at a time was a form people hated.
- Treasuries don't merge. A camp ministry's bank account is not the district's bank account. Per-event payee routing wasn't a nice-to-have; it was the difference between adoption and rejection.
- Waivers need to be enforced at the booking step, not at the gate. Asking for them on the morning of camp guarantees missing signatures.
- The kiosk has to work without a full admin login. Volunteers running the registration table aren't IT staff. The kiosk runs in a locked-down mode they can't break.
If you're a similar district
If your district runs camps or family events, has more than one ministry that needs its own treasury, or has gotten burned by a missing waiver — the shape of the problem is the shape we've already solved here.