Category: Software
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Could this Free App Make Recording Church Offerings Easier?
Recording church offerings before it all goes to the bank can be complicated for portable churches. Here are a couple of ideas to make the job easier and more secure for your Offering Counting Team. Portable churches have a special challenge when it comes to recording church offerings. You have to collect the offering, count…
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Use these 4 Free Community Mapping Tools
Use these free community mapping tools to help you do the hard missionary work of learning your community. Taking notes and marking things down on a saved online map will become invaluable as your network, serve and get the word out in your community. Radius Around an Address I am at the Exponential West conference…
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How to Manage Multiple Communication Channels
You’ve probably run into this: you want to send out a newsletter or important announcement but some people prefer email, some text and some social media. Who has time to manage multiple communication channels? One of the ironies of our age of communication is that communicating as a organization can be harder. It’s easier and…
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12 Church Sub-Calendars You Need Today
Church sub-calendars are a great way to keep everything organized at your church. Setting them up is relatively easy and it solves the following 3 problems. Whether or not you’re a program-driven church, there are things that happen in the life of your church each year. Keeping them all straight is important. If you use…
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Nonprofit Discounts and Social Engineering
With Google Grants leading the charge, software companies and other retailers that offer discounts to nonprofits have begun creating filters for who gets the discounts. A 2-Way Street I totally get it – I wouldn’t want to be compelled to support a nonprofit that opposes my own matters of conscience. And setting conditions when you’re…
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How to Sync Church Calendars to Save Your Sanity
Ever get sick of having to create the same church event over and over on different platforms? If only you could sync church calendars so you only had to enter each event once! It usually goes like this: you’ve planned an event for your church plant. It’s going to be awesome. You need to get…
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How to Use a Church Drip Campaign
Ever had trouble remembering to send followup emails to guests of your church? Or getting a staff member or a volunteer to? Setting up a church drip campaign is a great way to create a consistent, timely series of followup emails or SMS messages so you don’t have to remember. With a church drip campaign,…
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What to Leave Off your Church Connection Card
The church connection card has been around for decades. They even predate churches using computers. Here’s a question – is your church connection card still asking the same questions as those old cards we used to grab from the back of the pew and fill out with the golf pencil? Current generations are less trusting…
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Free Church Photo Release Forms
Having a fun event this summer? Great! Taking pictures, too? Even better! But you can’t just post those pictures on your church website or Facebook page without having signed church photo release forms. Here’s why: Jeopardizing Children Picture copyright issues aside, I see the biggest issue as children’s safety. Consider these scenarios that could very…