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

Initial Setup and Requirements

An account with Growth Method through Full Method (formerly Focus Ministry) must be established before the integration can be configured.

Best practice: We recommend creating a new API User for your API Client so the Audit Log can track which integration makes changes. Follow the steps below.

Integration Setup: In the Platform

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.
   • Make sure this User has a Security Role with Administrator rights.
3. Go to Administration > API Clients, and click New.
   
4. Enter "GrowthMethod" for Display Name and Client ID
5. Enter a Client Secret. This is the 'password' used by Growth Method to access your MinistryPlatform database. We highly recommend using a password generator so your Client Secret is unique and secure.
   
6. Select the Client User you created in step 2.
7. Select Authentication Flow of "Authorization Code, Implicit, Hybrid, Client Credentials, or Resource Owner".
8. All other settings can remain the same.
9. Click Save.

Cost

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

Fees from Full Method will be 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 MP 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

• Growth Method Help Center: Integrate Your ChMS
  
• Growth Method Webinar
• Growth Method Overview PDF
• Growth Website
• Growth Walkthrough Video