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Growth Method

Growth Method (formerly Focus Growth), uses Ministry Intelligence to help you effectively engage and assimilate visitors, members, ministry, and spiritual discipleship!

Cost

There is no charge from ACS Technologies for configuring the integration.

Fees from Go Method are assessed per each church's individual contract agreement.

Integration with MP

Growth Method can create and/or update Contact, Participant, and Household records.

Growth Method maps to the following MinistryPlatform fields:

  • Events
  • Form Responses
  • Groups
  • Group Inquiries
  • Group Participants
  • Group Roles
  • Milestones
  • Opportunities
  • Participant Types

Support

Support is provided by Full Method. Their support team can be reached by email: fullmethod@acst.com.

See Also

Integration Setup: In the Platform

  • You must have an account with Growth Method through Full Method (formerly Focus Ministry) to configure this integration.
Note: Best Practice: We recommend you create a new API User for your API Client so the Audit Log can track which integration makes changes. Follow the steps below.
  1. Add a company contact for "API-GrowthMethod" using the Add/Edit Company Tool.
  2. Create a new User, and select the company contact you added.
    Note: Make sure this User has a Security Role with Administrator rights.
  3. Go to Administration > API Clients, and click New.
  4. Enter "Growth Method" for Display Name and Client ID.
  5. Enter a Client Secret. This is the "password" used by Growth Method to access your MinistryPlatform database.
    Tip: We recommend using the Password Generator to generate a secure value. Click the magic wand icon wand with surrounding stars beside the field to open the Password Generator and select the options you want.
  6. Select a Client User. Choose: API, API | Login: apiuser.
    Note: Whatever Client User you choose or create, they must have a Security Role with Administrator rights.
  7. Select Authentication Flow pf "Authorization Code, Implicit, Hybrid, Client Credentials, or Resource Owner."
  8. All other settings can remain the same.
  9. Click Save.

See the Growth Method Help Center for further steps: Integrate Your Church Management Software