I can’t tell you how many times I have heard this question. I’ve done all kinds of conferences and at just about every one there is the Mac Guru that asks THE question… Will Nspire work on my Mac? Well, up until now the only way to get Nspire on your mac was by using [...]

If you are sitting around the house or at the church looking for something cool to do; consider setting up a wireless network. Don’t know how??? well here is a link to a Cnet.com video that will tell you how to get started. A wireless network will give you the ability to access the Internet [...]

 There are a lot of gotchas in custom software development. I have spoken to and visited many churches that were not successful developing custom software. Here are some things to consider:
 

Sometimes a church may have a member who is a software developer who wants to donate their time to develop a data base. Before you [...]

First, I want to be right up front. I have been developing software for churches for 10 years. My opinions may be skewed slightly to my benefit (off the shelf software) so use what I have to say as you wish.
 
Custom software development is an option for churches wanting church management software tailored specifically to [...]

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 [...]

This is the first of a series of blog entries I want to write related to choosing church software. Whether your church is a small church with less than 100 members or a big church with over 1000 members selecting a data base is necessary and the right choice will bless your ministry in many [...]

Have you ever tried to be creative when the creative juices just were not flowing? I’ve been there. I work in youth ministry, church software, blogging, and a whole world of other things that require me to be creative. I am on the side that if you are going to do something… do it to [...]

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, [...]

Well, this week I wanted to let you know about a really creative idea I have heard about, a few times, to reach out to visitors. I have a friend, who is one of our customers, that has organized a team of volunteers that every night after service drive out to all the visitors house’s and they [...]

 
If you haven’t heard of Serendipity House it is an excellent resource for Sunday School, small group, or general meetings. I found out about Serendipity House from a Youth Specialties show I was working at. They had a free lesson from their Flood series that included some of the best DVD video work I have seen [...]