Ten Technologies for Pastoral Care
A few weeks ago at the national meeting of the Church IT Roundtable at Saddleback, Rick Warren made the following statement, “The purpose of technology is to make the church more personal.” He is right, that is indeed one of the purposes of technology in the church.… READ MORE
ChMS of the Top 10 Largest Churches
Last October, Joel Lingenfelter had an interesting post titled, “ChMS,- What do the big guys use?” He listed the church management software used by each of the top 10 largest churches are reported by Outreach magazine.
For convenience, I will reprint his list below:
3 Churches use FellowshipOne (Lakewood Church, Lifechurch.tv, and Fellowship Church)
3 Churches use Arena (Willow Creek, North Point Community Church, and Southeast Christian Church)
1 Church uses iMIS from Advanced Solutions International (Second Baptist Houston)
1 Church uses ACS (Woodlands Church)
1 Church wrote their own database.… READ MORE
Global Dominance of Social Media
Have you ever stopped to consider the global presence and use of online social networks? Most of us have heard of the large number of users on Facebook and MySpace, but the map below will tell a bigger story. Social networks are not mere fads, but a new era in communication and community.… READ MORE
Event Management Integration: Decision
We saw one last demo this past week from Dean Evans and Associates. We looked at the features of EMS Enterprise. It definitely is robust and has all the work flow one would need for facility room request, food services requests, setups, and web promotions. We did identify 3 gap items in using EMS as our back office engine for pushing event info to our website:
1.… READ MORE
Event Management Integration Update
We saw another demo today from Dean Evans and Associates. Today we looked at their Master Calendar which can be used with or without EMS. It definitely accommodates our needs for our multi-site planning calendar….allowing us to add an item to multiple campus calendars at one time.… READ MORE
About Equip Them
Equip Them focuses on technology as tools for evangelism and spiritual formation in the church and family. It is the personal blog of David Drinnon, pastor and Director of Information Technology and Websites at Second Baptist Church, Houston, TX. The opinions and views expressed on this site are his own and do not necessarily represent those of his church.
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