Category: Tech Gadgets
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Use this Free App to Scan Business Cards with Your Smartphone
Save a ton of time and data entry when you scan business cards with your smartphone. Your new friend’s contact info goes straight from their card into your address book. As pastors and church planters, you should be out in your community meeting with civic leaders and community influencers. Imagine a successful week of meeting […]
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Use this Free Mobile Expense Report App to Save Time
Filing expense reports used to be a painful, manual process. Thanks to free mobile expense report app options, it’s now a lot faster and easier. Ever lost a receipt before turning it in for reimbursement? Worse, ever had to tape original receipts three to a page on a blank sheet for submission? I have suffered […]
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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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Get Tons of Nonprofit Discounts for Churches at TechSoup!
Continuing my string of posts about fantastic cheap and free services for your church, you need to know about tons of nonprofit discounts for churches available at TechSoup. Wouldn’t it be great if someone compiled a list of all the nonprofits grants, discounts and freebies that are available from all the big corporate donors? That’s […]
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10 Things to Consider When Shooting Church Staff Video Bios
As you’re building the website for your church plant, you should consider including church staff video bios instead of just pictures on your staff page. Staff Pages Rank High Most people will check out a church’s website before their first visit. But which pages do they hit when they’re deciding whether or not to come? […]
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How to Use a Prepaid Card for Petty Cash
It is essential to keep good financial records for your church, including having a reimbursement system that creates paper trail for all church expenses. But what happens if a staff or volunteer can’t front the expense and wait to get reimbursed? Using a prepaid card for petty cash may just solve your dilemma. I prefer […]
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Are Virtual Church Board Meetings Legal?
As schedules get busier and video conferencing software gets better, more church plant management teams are wondering, “Are virtual church board meetings legal?” Remembering that I am not a lawyer and not qualified to dispense legal advice, let me simply point you to what I found in my own quest for answers: Check Your State’s […]
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Micro vs Macro Church Metrics
What is your church’s scorecard? If you want to know how you’re doing at making disciples, you need to consider micro vs macro church metrics. For years churches have been measuring things at the macro (congregational) level. While that’s important and should be part of the scorecard, Willow’s now almost 10-year old Reveal study bravely […]
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Church PayPal Plugin for WordPress
The following is a guest post by Dave Phillips of Passion 4 Planting, a church plant project manager and coder extraordinaire. Wouldn’t it be great if you could start accepting donations from your church plant website without hiring a programmer? You can! All you need is a WordPress-based website and a plugin that’s connected to […]