Archive for January, 2007

how to buy church software

31Jan07

by Brandon Gross

If you have decided that it’s about time to get some kind of church software, there are a few things you should keep in mind that will save you a ton of time, money, and frustration. A few months back our Vice President, Bart Hardison, wrote a series of posts on buying church software. I [...]

time to get organized - Part 3

26Jan07

by Brandon Gross

If you have been following along with us on our series "time to get organized" you should be at a place where you are ready to do something with your neatly stacked piles of papers on your desk. If you have not been following along you can start by reading the Part 1 of this [...]

time to get organized - Part 2

25Jan07

by Brandon Gross

Today is the day… today you begin your quest on tackling that organizational nightmare that has been on your desk for the past 2 years… Today you start to win. If you are just joining us on this series "time to get organized" you should read yesterday’s post first and then come back here.
Yesterday, [...]

time to get organized - Part 1

24Jan07

by Brandon Gross

Well, January is almost over and that new years resolution you made to get organized is knocking on the door asking for you to pay up. Today, you don’t have to run from it anymore. I have some friends that have always struggled with getting their life and work organized. It seems this is a [...]

creating a church website with an apple - Part 2 - iweb

19Jan07

by Brandon Gross

Yesterday, I gave a top ten list of why you should buy and apple if you are wanting to create a church website yourself. It might help if I give you some background as to why I decided to go on this "apple" tangent. Toward the beginning of the year, the youth pastor of the [...]

Create you next church website with an apple

18Jan07

by Brandon Gross

Ok, I don’t have any vicious (one of my youth has been using vicious instead of awesome… it’s been catchy) explanation for using a real "apple" for a website; unless you just want to take a picture of one. But I can tell you that the other "apple" will rock your world for creating a [...]

A new blog for your enjoyment

12Jan07

by Brandon Gross

I just ran across Craig Groschel and Bobby Gruenewald’s new blog; http://swerve.lifechurch.tv/ . Craig is the author of the free book I listed in a post a while back, Confessions of a Pastor. Both Craig and Bobby have posted some good reading material with some interesting stories. My favorite, so far, is pulling pants down… [...]

creating a network for your church software

10Jan07

by Brandon Gross

I recently had a very interesting conversation with an IT consultant working on the board of a very large Church using Nspire.  He began to get complaints about problems with Nspire crashing and staff not being able to open Nspire this past summer. What he found was interesting and I am afraid [...]

Check out whats going on at Nspire

03Jan07

by Brandon Gross

A lot of new things are on the way for 2007… Life with church software is about to be good… real good.
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