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Click any Team card to see what it looks like inside Microsoft Teams, including a live conversation mockup and file structure preview.
Click any role to see reporting details. Orange = Pastoral/Leadership roles. Blue = Staff/Director roles.
| OneNote | Microsoft Loop | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Long-term structured notes, sermons, playbooks, reference docs | Live tables, action items, dashboards that update everywhere |
| Mental model | A digital 3-ring binder with tabs and pages | A modern workspace full of live components |
| Learning curve | Very low. Familiar to anyone who has used Word | Medium. New concept for most staff |
| Live co-editing | Yes (brief sync lag on mobile) | Yes (best-in-class) |
| Action items roll forward | Manual: tag and re-pull each meeting | Automatic: one component everywhere it's embedded |
| Search across everything | Through OneNote + Teams | Through Loop + Teams |
| Offline access | Strong. Full notebook syncs offline | Limited |
| Works on Apple & Lenovo | Yes, identical | Yes, identical |
| Apple/iPad native app | OneNote iOS app (excellent) | Loop iOS app |
| Lenovo/Windows app | OneNote Windows app (excellent) | Loop Windows app |
| Included in your license | Yes | Yes |
Three Church templates rendered in both Loop and OneNote. Use the switcher below to flip between them. Pros and cons are template-specific (the right answer can be different for different templates).
| Action | Owner | Due | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Update giving URL on website & bulletin | Amy N. | May 15 | Open |
| Confirm bus rental for summer missions | Matt P. | May 20 | Open |
| Draft Q2 budget revisions for board | Nikki E. | May 18 | Open |
| Set up CH101 cohort for June | Nicole M. | May 12 | Done |
| Week | Title | Speaker | Graphic | Social | Bulletin | Set List |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22 | Palm Sunday · The King Arrives | Brad K. | Done | Done | Done | Done |
| Mar 29 | Good Friday · The Cross | Matt P. | Done | Done | Open | Done |
| Apr 5 | Easter Sunday · He Is Risen | Brad K. | Done | Open | Open | Open |
| Apr 12 | What Now? · Living the Resurrection | Matt P. | Open | Open | Open | Open |
| Action | Owner | Due | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Update giving URL on website + bulletin | Amy N. | May 15 | Leads · May 5 | Open |
| Confirm bus rental for student missions trip | Matt P. | May 20 | Leads · May 5 | Open |
| Draft Q2 budget revisions for board | Nikki E. | May 18 | Leads · May 5 | Open |
| Bulletin proof for Apr 12 sermon | Amy N. | Apr 9 | Programming | Open |
| CH101 cohort June scheduled | Nicole M. | May 12 | Engagement | Done |
| Sensory room volunteer training | Mayley M. | May 25 | Family Life | Open |
| Update emergency response playbook | Security Lead | Jun 1 | Engagement › Security | Open |
One decision to make before we lock the timeline: which all-staff meeting we launch at. Whichever date you pick, the bi-weekly Leads soft launch is automatically built in two weeks before, so leads can pilot Teams at their meeting, become peer trainers, and walk into all-staff already comfortable.
Everything from Google Workspace and OneDrive moves into Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.
This is the start of the Church's living training library. Each module below will grow into a short video, a GIF walkthrough, and a one-page quick reference, with Mac (Apple) and Lenovo (Windows) versions side by side. Launch-ready by May 19; we keep adding as we learn what staff ask most.
Schedule shown assumes a May 19 all-staff launch. If leadership picks June 16 instead, every session below shifts by four weeks.
Click any card for a step-by-step walkthrough with illustrations.
New to Teams? Click any question for a step-by-step walkthrough.
Same tasks, fewer headaches. The left shows today; the right shows the Teams way.
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