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SHEPHERD360: GPS-Verified Pastoral Visitation Management

Flotech engineered the One Voice 27 Pastoral Visitation Management System — connecting shepherds to members with geofence-verified home visits, confidential care notes, WhatsApp notifications, and conference-level accountability dashboards.

The Challenge

The One Voice 27 conference network launched this initiative to ensure every member receives personal pastoral care on the road to September 2027. Manual visit logs and phone follow-ups could not scale across churches, pastors, and thousands of households — nor could leadership verify that visits actually happened at members' registered homes.

The conference needed a system that respected confidentiality, worked on mobile devices in the field, integrated with digital mission outreach, and gave administrators exportable oversight without reducing people to statistics.

Flotech's Solution

SHEPHERD360 (One Voice 27 Pastoral Visitation Management System) combines a shepherd-facing mobile workflow with web dashboards for conference administrators. A visit is only confirmed when the pastor is physically present at the member's registered home location — verified through GPS geofencing — then explicitly confirmed in the app.

Verified Visit Workflow

1. Pastor assigned to members
2. Shepherd books a visit date
3. Household notified via WhatsApp or SMS
4. Pastor travels to the registered home
5. GPS geofence verifies physical presence
6. Permanent, accountable record stored

Technology Stack

Outcomes

SHEPHERD360 gives pastors a clear view of who is due, overdue, in crisis, newly baptised, or reached through digital mission — while conference leaders monitor churches, categories, and overdue care with exportable reports. The platform supports the Adventist Church's 2025–2030 strategic pillars under the One Voice 27 movement.

Explore the live platform at onevoice27.vercel.app.

Field-Verified Mobile Systems

Geofencing is not just for logistics — it enables trustworthy field operations wherever physical presence matters. Flotech applies the same location intelligence used in GIS and navigation projects to pastoral care, inspections, and service delivery apps worldwide.