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Nspire 2007

Brandon Gross — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:44:07 +0000

Wow… it has been a while since I have been back in the blog community. We have been working hard here at Nspire to get our 2007 release out, which many of you readers are already enjoying. If you haven’t downloaded the new release and you are on membership… go for it… you have no idea how many cool features you are missing, not to mention our new dashboard feature.

You can find out more by going to our website at www.nspiresoftware.com ; we have given it a face lift also

These last few months have been busy here at Nspire. If you haven’t heard we decided to bring back the Youth Assistant and we gave him a little sister called the Children’s Assistant.

If you know anything about our history in church software, you know that our company started off as the Youth Assistant. This was a first for youth pastors who needed software that was easy and gave them noticeable results. Because of it’s growing popularity and demand from other ministers, we changed the Youth Assistant into Nspire in 1999. This was a great means for us to offer user friendly software to all parts of church ministry.

Well, as the years have gone by, Nspire has grown into a fully featured church management software that can handle all the needs of the entire church. We still did not want to forget about all our youth and children’s ministers out there that use our software independently of the overall church program. So, to meet those needs we brought back the Youth Assistant, but not the old Youth Assistant you may remember… no this Youth Assistant is better than it has ever been. All the features you could ever need are built right in. So, if you are a long lost Youth Assistant lover or a youth minister just in need of some good software, hop over to the YA’s website at www.youthassistant.com to see the new and improved Youth Assistant 2007.

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NSpire 2007 Website is Live

Brandon Gross — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:05:59 +0000

We just released our new website for NSpire 2007, check it out by clicking on the image below:

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Check out whats going on at Nspire

Brandon Gross — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:03:58 +0000

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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Remember our December Specials!

Brandon Gross — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:00:15 +0000

I wanted to remind everyone about our December Specials here at Nspire. If you have been waiting to get your church Nspire’d (I know cheesy wording but I had to do it ), December could be the best month to do it. I have to admit the USB drive is pretty cool. It will let you take a copy of Nspire with you wherever you go and view it on any computer. As we would say around the office…

.…It is So much of the Sweet!!!

- Merry Christmas -

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Who uses Email?

Brandon Gross — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:21:13 +0000

I was reading on our friend Bill Seaver’s blog today and he had an interesting post that referenced the number of teenagers who use email as the main method of communication to friends. The results were interesting, I have to mention I was not too shocked by them. You can read his post here. From what Bill posted, only 1/5 of teenagers (ages 13 to 17) use email as the main method of communicating with friends. What’s number one you ask? I bet you can guess it. IM’ing (Instant Messaging) turned out being the preference of 1/3 of teenagers. Adults apparently were the ones who still preferred email.

So what does this have to do with anything?

Teenagers communicate differently than what we may think. I don’t think email is going away anytime soon. I still communicate with my kids (being my church kids) by using it; but honestly I find that when I instant message with the kids, they seem to have all kinds of stuff to talk about. I guess it is the whole "live" sense of instant messaging that causes them to open up.

It’s all about relationships. From what I’ve seen in youth ministry it seems that kids prefer IM’ing because it’s more like hanging out with friends… We have Internet stations in the youth house and the number one program used is MSN Messenger. I even put some other cool software on the stations, but none of it is used as much as Messenger.

If you haven’t tried the whole IM world of messaging with your teens yet… give it a shot. I have friends who use it as the main method of communicating with their youth. You would be surprised at how quick the word will get around with your teens by using messaging as well. We threw a big event over the summer and decided to use IM’ing as one of our main ways of getting the word out. We told some youth about it the day of or before the event. I was surprised at how many people showed up because of the youth Im’ing each other. Something to think about.

Have you used Instant Messaging to communicate with Youth… tell us about it > be a friend… leave a comment

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Careers

Bart — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:15:34 +0000

We added a new page on the Inside Nspire site for jobs here at Nspire Software. If you are interested or know someone looking send them our way.

Our current posting is for an Inside sales position.

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Small Church… Big Impact

Brandon Gross — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:51:53 +0000

I ran across a really interesting statistic this week here. I was reading over this article and found that 90% of all Christian churches are small churches, which consists of churches below 100 members. This statistic shocked me and really brought the realization of how powerful the small church really is. I have grown up in small churches all my life since my Dad is a pastor. One of the major issues I see that keeps many small churches from completely reaching their communities is a lack of vision. I can’t tell you how many of these small churches I was in that did not think they had enough money… enough resources… enough people… big enough facilities… or enough of anything else to really make a major impact in their community. A few of the ones that did made it all about getting attendance to a certain number and missed the entire advantage of the small church. Take a look at this:

Out of the nearly 350,000 U.S. congregations, less than 5% will ever see an attendance of more than 700.

Are the ones that never see 700 people doing God’s will??? Of course they are. The advantage to the small church is the relationships they can offer that are… family like. Small churches get to a level with people that is difficult to achieve in a large church setting. Now, I am not saying that large churches can not offer that level of relationship… what I am saying is the advantage to getting to that level quicker is with the small church. So if you are a small church and it seems like you do not have enough to accomplish the dreams you have, remember how important a role you play in the big picture. Because without the small church, there might not be many churches left. I encourage you to read the article by using the link above.

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Oaktreeidea

Brandon Gross — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:49:35 +0000

I ran up on a really interesting website today as I was doing my morning blog reading. It came from www.churchvideoideas.com , which is a great blog about everything involving church tech and more. So, the name of this interesting site… Oaktreeidea. The staff over at Oaktreeidea have put a vision into action; to create a place where innovators and thinkers and everything inbetween can come and relate their visions about church and more. Now I have to admit, at first I had a hard time figuring out what this site was all about and what they were trying to do but once I found out… it’s all aboard. One of the most interesting features I like about his site is they have a section called impact projects. If you have ever had a idea that you thought would be great if the Church could catch on and do it but did not know how to share it… this is the place for that idea. I read through all kinds of ideas this morning and it was encouraging to read what some people where thinking and visions they had. The site also gives a place for users to ask questions and other users in the network can answer and verbalize opinions on each one. This place truely is a breeding ground for ideas, you need to check it out at www.oaktreeidea.com . If you still need some more info, here is how Oaktreeidea explains what they are:

"Oaktreeidea is not your average online social community. If you want to make a real difference in the world, then our site is for you. We have built the site for the innovators, the out-of-box thinkers, the emerging churches, the creative people and those living life with purpose, passion and meaning.

Use our site to: meet others, inspire, collaborate, to reach out, make a positive impact in your community, introduce your ministry to the world, to show God’s love, to give hope to others, and to promote any other positive world changing endeavor you may have."

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Cancel Church for Service

Brandon Gross — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:09:58 +0000

I found a really interesting article today on www.churchmarketingsucks.com about Gateway Community Church in South Riding Va. Apparently they decided one day to cancel church service to volunteer at 61 area homes in their community. You can read about it at Pete’s blog who is a member at the church. I love this idea. Think creatively about this, are there any elderly people in your congregation that need help around the house, maybe a cooked meal, gutters cleaned, or anything? What about others in the church and outside the church that could use some help… the hungry… poor… homeless… families with parents who have just lost their job and are struggling to make it. Wouldn’t it be great to just show up one Sunday and go out and help in the community to make it a better place… novel idea, huh? Read over the comments for each blog as well, they have some good nuggets of info there too. Oh, and if you can’t stop wondering, the Extreme Makeover Church Edition picture is not really a show… I made a little modification to it.

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How Rich Are You?

Brandon Gross — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:48:07 +0000

Well, I was just looking at Bart’s blog The Older Brother and saw a post about knowing how rich we are. Now if we all get honest, there have been times when we just do not think what we have is good enough. Our salaries are not good enough, our cars are not good enough, our stuff just at times does not seem good enough. Well, this website Global Rich List gives you a simple tool to see where you rank in "Richness" (my new word:) compared to the rest of the world. Let me tell you, it is humbling. The tool has a ranking on it that will adjust to show you where you compare. If you were to ask me if I was rich, initially I would have told you, "probably not… I could use some extra cash just like anyone else." Well, I tested my "Richness" and was very surprised at where I ranked. So, in true Mythbusters fashion I wanted to see what was considered low end, or poor. So I took a salary of only $1,500 a year, that’s $125 a month… and tested it. I was surprised at what came out. A person making only $1,500 a year would still be ranked in the top 24.8% of the richest people in the world. We are rich… and we don’t even know it. I have placed a link below so you can see your "Richness". You may be surprised.

I’m the 1,488,503,335 richest person on earth!

Discover how rich you are! >>

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