DeVry University
Keller Graduate School of Management

Creating a Database for Storing and Managing Church Members’ Record for R.C.C.G. Heaven’s Gate

Gbolade O. Soneyin gsoneyin@my.keller.edu (770) 598-5006
MIS-535-18371 Managerial Applications of Information Technology
Professor Tanya Cannon
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Table of Contents
Subject of Course Project 3
Business Problem Stated 3
Name of the Organization 3
Proposed Solution 3
General Benefits 4
Audience 4
References 5

Abstract
To help Heaven’s Gate move away from tracking its members on spreadsheets and paper, move to a database application that will not only track members, but also track department activities, members contributions, and do it all via the least economically, but yet effective, easily accessible and requiring limited technical or IT expertise to maintain.
Keywords: RCCG, Database, Church, Heaven’s Gate, Application, Church Management

Company Background
Heaven’s Gate is one of many parishes of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria; finding out exactly how many parishes of the church existed was next to impossible. In her well-detailed article on the church, Olufunke Adeboye wrote about the church from 1952-2005. Founded by Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi in 1952, after receiving vision to write down the church’s name on a wooden board, this despite the fact the man was unschooled at the time; he cannot read nor know how to write. After writing the words that he believed God showed him, he took it to relatives that read it aloud to him as “Redeemed Christian Church of God.” Pa Akindayomi – the name Josiah is popularly known by members of the church – claimed that he also received in the same vision the word that RCCG “would spread to the ends of the earth and would still be serving faithfully when the Lord returned to the earth in