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Best way to clean up a large People database full of former/inactive attendees without doing a clean wipe

Verified answer · Added May 5, 2026

Answer

Build a list using attendance/giving conditions to surface inactive profiles, then use bulk actions to set them inactive rather than delete — this preserves giving history and auto-reactivates if they donate or take action in Church Center.

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