Archive for September, 2006

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Church Management System Selection

At the Innovative Church Conference last week, I met several people who asked about how we decided on using Fellowship One for our church management system. In the summer of 2005 we had a great volunteer intern, Philip Meawad, come in and work with us to research and select a new system that would [...]

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Friday, September 22nd, 2006

ICC IT Lunch Pictures

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Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Innovative Church Conference - Day 2

Just came out of Day 2 at the Innovative Church Conference…I had a great time with Jason Powell and Ed Buford today talkin tech shop. They definitely do a great job at Granger. I am definitely looking forward to attending the IT round table coming up in the spring. Now we are [...]

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Friday, September 22nd, 2006

ChurchTechBlogs

anchorite.org should start appearing on ChurchTechBlogs this weekend. I often refer people who ask me about keeping up with church technology to this great site…
ChurchTechBlogs.com is an aggregator of a diverse group of church technology related blogs. It is an opportunity for those integrating technology into church ministry to learn from the experiences of [...]

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Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Innovative Church Conference - Day 1

Day 1 of the Innovative Church Conference at Granger Community Church was definitely eye opening, they definitely know how to create an “experience” for their guests. From the walk in to the parking lot all the way into the auditorium, we were enthusiastically greeted along the way. I attended a breakout session on [...]

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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Tech we Use: Part 2 - Streaming and Recording

Kem Meyer answered a question that we get a lot as well - “How do I stream our services?” She links to posts on how Granger does streaming and audio recording…St. Mark’s has a similar setup with a few differences. Here is how we do streaming and recording:
Cameras: Sony EVI-D100 Pan/Tilt/Zoom and [...]

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Monday, September 18th, 2006

Dynamic Church 2007 - User and Developer Conference

In case any one missed the announcement (I know I almost did), Fellowship Technologies is having its first user and developer conference, Dynamic Church 2007, May 17-19, 2007.

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Monday, September 18th, 2006

Hard Drive Recovery and Backup Solutions

A few weeks ago I got a call from our senior priest, Father Bishoy. He told me that the server I had setup for him at home wasn’t working anymore. I had set the server up with a hardware RAID 1 and apparently both drives had failed. I had setup an external [...]

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Monday, September 18th, 2006

I’m back

It has been an exciting and busy few week at St. Mark’s, the new school year kicked off smoothly at LFCS and our Come In Unity festival this past weekend was a great success. Hopefully I can set aside some more time for blogging now that things have calmed down.
John and I leave tomorrow [...]

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