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The Saltwater Community has committed to limiting our carbon footprint. One way we honor this commitment is we use an online application, Realm Connect, for membership connections. If you wish to access our directory, please sign into Realm Connect. If you do not have a login, please contact our Congregational Administrator, Administrator@SaltwaterChurch.org

What Is Realm Connect ?

We have begun launching our new membership program, Realm Connect. This is a very useful tool for communication and connection within our community on a secure, online platform. Our Realm Connect engagement is growing and we continue to develop and implement more of the tools offered by the Realm platform in order to best serve our membership and greater community. The more of our members that log on to the application and engage, the more robust your experience will be. There are multiple phases with the roll out of our new system. Our previous Board President, Diane Schairer, and Bubba have provided a few highlights of what Realm Connect has to offer.

• Easy and SECURE online engagement
  • Learn about Community Engagement Groups and our Volunteer Serving Team Opportunities within the Realm Connect app and easily express your interest or get information about upcoming gatherings.
  • Email a group or team (like “Board” or “Sunday Morning Volunteers”) and everyone in that group or team will receive your message. There is no longer a need to remember who was involved or if you have their correct email address. New people will be added and old people will be dropped from the group, so you’ll never need to worry about forgetting to contact new members.
  • Have instant access to our online directory. The only contact information shared is that which the individual has given permission to share. Names and contact info that is shared is secure, unlike posting those on our website.
  • You can look up anyone in a group, on a team, or attending a specific event. Each option has a list of participants. Individual contact information can easily be located from the list of participants.

• Record Keeping & Reporting
  • Each member of Saltwater has the ability to see the financial contributions they have made to the community and can print statements for tax documents whenever they wish.
  • Each Realm Connect user is able to update their name, phone number, email, and physical address. Users manage what personal information they want shared with other Realm Connect users.
  • Our leaders can create vital operation reports and share them with others using the Realm platform.
  • Our Community Engagement Groups and our Volunteer Serving Teams can upload documents to one central location for easy information sharing and record keeping. This will help make sure materials are accessible to the right people, when needed, without having to hunt through the shared google drive and making certain I have the right access.

• Volunteer coordination – If all our users fill out their Realm Connect profiles, then our leaders can…
  • See the skills and interests of the members in our community. Instead of relying on our memory when we are looking for help on a project … “Oh, Diane did that before, maybe she’ll do it again” we will be able to see who has expressed an interest in filling Volunteer Serving Team role or position. They can also use this tool to discover who may be a good resource of knowledge on specific topics such as Elder Law. Our current practice has a tendency to exclude new people from the “in crowd” and burns out people who have been around for awhile.
  • See the history for each person’s engagement with the community. So if someone is already doing 5 things, maybe we won’t ask them for a 6th. If someone is not yet involved, being able to see what their interests will allow our leaders to personally invite them.
    
• Find Community Engagement Activities
  • Discover all the groups that meet and host events at Saltwater UU Church. If you have an activity that you would like to participate in (example Creative Hands Ministry) you can search in the Realm Connect app for that group, learn about that group, and express interest in it.
  • Groups can share their events with the greater community or just within a group, making it easier to organize and coordinate activities.

Everything on the Realm platform is fully integrated. Launching this system is a multi-year project and a major undertaking. We will continue to experience new benefits from it throughout 2026 and 2027.

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