Second Baptist Church to Host Regional Church IT Roundtable

This fall, Second Baptist Church (Woodway Campus), Houston, TX will host a regional gathering of Church IT professionals called the CITRT (Church IT Roundtable). This gathering is more an unconference or a barcamp rather than a conference. So if you are in the Texas and Lousiana areas, come join us Sunday evening, November 1 and all day Monday, November 2.… READ MORE

Management & Leadership in a Multi-Site Church

Next month will mark our 10 year anniversary as a multi-site church. We started our second campus in the fall of 1999. In 2003, we merged with an existing church and in 2006 we launched 2 additional campuses in movie theaters here in town. Today, we have 5 campuses and 1100+ staff.… READ MORE

Relationship between IT, Communications & Media

Relationship between IT, Communications & Media

Both the church and technology are ever changing. Churches have to work strategically to maximize its staff, resources, and work processes; otherwise, they'll likely experience duplication of effort, inefficiency, excessive expenditures. This is more true with IT, Communications and Media than any other area of the church.… READ MORE

Keeping Our Staff Productive with Email/Spam Filtering

WOW!!! Since November 1, our email filter caught 484,879 emails because of spam, viruses, malware, etc. This is 81.89% of all inbound emails to our church staff. What would we do without it!!!… READ MORE

Great Resource for Authenticating Macs on Active Directory

Daryl Hunter at LifeChurch.tv referred me to this great resource on leveraging Active Directory on Mac OS X. Perhaps it will help you as well.… READ MORE