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Summary
All Reliant field missionaries are assigned an @reliant e-mail address and user account via the Google for Nonprofits program. This account gives you access to official Reliant email, some MTD and administrative resources, plus other Google services. Here's more about it.
What does the account access?
Reliant Official Email
The official Reliant email inbox is based on the same system as a private "Gmail" account, but your data is protected by Reliant.
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Or go to any Google prompt and login using your @reliant.org address and password.
Google Drive Apps
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Or go to any Google prompt and login using your @gcmweb.org address and password.
Google Drive is a cloud-based office software that works on personal computers or phones & tablets. GCM has a free account to these powerful apps, which are something like the traditional Microsoft Office applications.
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| Google Drive | Windows File Explorer | Browsing files and sorting them into folders | 20GB of free online storage for any file. The home page for creating new Google documents. Excellent search. |
| Google Docs | Microsoft Word | Word processing and writing | Design prayer letters and more. The multi-person commenting and editing features make it excellent for collaborative authoring |
| Google Sheets | Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheets: calculations and charts | Do budgets, make custom MTD reports, brainstorm MTD names, manage a project. Group collaboration features are great. |
| Google Forms | --- | Web forms, online surveys. | The fastest way to create a quick survey or poll. Poll your ministry team? Results dump into a Google Sheet. |
| Google Slides | Microsoft Powerpoint | Presentation Slides | Great for our new MTD presentation, which can be shown on an iPad or printed as a hardcover photo book. Or use it for sermons. |
Some Reliant Admin and MTD Resources
Reliant missionaries can use their google accounts to access some specific services including:
- Submit online reimbursement requests (built with Google sheets)
- Build an MTD Presentation Album (built with Google Slides)
- Access some MTD resources (built on Google Drive)
Can I use my local church email address instead?
Yes! For ministry or even MTD purposes some missionaries will choose to their local ministry address as their primary address. It's up to you. (For MTD purposes, we do encourage our missionaries to use a professional address choices rather than a personal public account e.g. hotmail or gmail.)
Remember that your @reliant.org address remains your official address for Reliant missionary purposes, so if you check a different address principly, you can set your @reliant.org address to forward to your preferred address.
How to I forward my @reliant email to another account?
You can set your e-mail to automatically forward to another address, like a church address. See detailed instructions.
Another option is to leave your @reliant.org address separate, but use one e-mail program to check both addresses. All major e-mail programs like Mac Mail, Outlook, or iPhone Mail can do this.
If your other primary address is a Google address, you can also use the Send Mail As option to send e-mail that looks like it is from either account.
Is this the Google Account the same as my ReliantID account?
They are separate systems. The e-mail and password used for your ReliantID (formerly GCMID) is used to login to Staffnet or give at Reliant.org (formerly MyGCM). This is separate system then your Reliant Google account.
Nearly all field missionaries have their first.last@reliant.org also set as the email address for their ReliantID, but the passwords are maintained separately. Changing the password for one does not change it for it the other.
What's new after the conversion from @gcmweb.org?
- So no email is missed, email sent tofirst.last@gcmweb.org is automatically forwarded to the equivalent at @reliant.org.
- We've changed our our policy so that the @reliant.org e-mail address is the permanant official e-mail address for all missionaries for employment. (But e-mail forwarding to another address, like a local church address, will still work just fine).
