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              The Church Membership System (CMS) is a software program
              designed to help you to better serve  your congregation.
              It helps you to efficiently manage all  the  information
              relating  to   your  church  members  including  mailing
              addresses, attendance tracking, contributions, and much,
              much more!

              In CMS, your members are organized by  "Families".  Each
              family has one or more "Members". A family may also have
              a "Shepherd". Shepherds are members of your congregation
              who look after one or more families. If you  would  like
              to pass this program on to someone else  to  try, here's
              what they have to have:

              CMS.EXE, CMS.OVR, SCREEN.LIB.   All  files  that  end in
              .CMS (or,  *.CMS), & .HLP(or, *.HLP) & .RPT (or,  *.RPT)

              If you copy these files to diskettes (it will take three
              (3)  -  360K  diskettes),  then someone else can run the
              program  on their computer.  When the program starts up,
              CMS will  discover that there are no database files, and
              create new ones - so you do not have to give away any of
              your database information in order to share the program!

              Mills & Associates Inc., believes that this  software  is
              reasonably  free  from  bugs  and  defects   and  further
              believes that it will perform substantially in accordance
              with the documentation. However, Mills & Associates Inc.,
              hereby   disclaims   all   warranties  relating  to  this
              software, whether express  or  implied, including without
              limitation  any  implied warranties of merchantability or
              fitness for  a  particular  purpose.   In  no  event will
              Mills & Associates  Inc.,  or  any  of  its  distribution
              channels   be   liable   for   any  special,  incidental,
              consequential,  indirect  or  similar  damages due to the
              use of the program resulting in loss of data or any other
              reason, even if Mills & Associates Inc., has been advised
              of   the   possibility   of   such   damages.   Under  no
              circumstances shall Mills & Associates'  (or  any  of its
              distribution channels)  liability  for  any  damages ever
              exceed  the  price  paid  for  the  license  to  use this
              particular  software,  (CHURCH  MEMBERSHIP  SYSTEM - GOLD
              SERIES,  VERSION  2.0)  regardless  of  the form  of  the
              claim.  The person using this software bears all risks as
              to   the   quality   and  performance  of  the  software.
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