Fri 22 Sep 2006
Innovative Church Conference - Day 1
Posted by Andrew Mitry under Christianity, Fellowship One
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 First Impressions that went through creating a “wow” first impression when someone first comes to the church based - check out Mark Waltz’s book on it. We got to meet up with Jason Powell and other church techies during an afternoon break and we will be meeting up for lunch today.
Got to speak a little with Fellowship Technologies and check out their check-in system, which we are considering adding earlier next year - it looks pretty slick, especially the bar code tags. George Kaldas, a deacon from our church in Chicago was talking to them about their basic edition, which is priced well for smaller churches just getting started to use church management systems.
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September 26th, 2006 at 4:17 pm[...] 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 meet our needs. Here is a writeup he did at the end of the summer. Please note that this research is over one year old and some things may have changed since then. While conducting research for a new church management software solution for St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church of Washington, DC, I was very surprised to learn that there are well over 100 software choices. These range from the simplest systems which do little more than just store information about the church’s members in a Microsoft Access database to very complex systems with powerful reporting and statistical analysis tools, as well as high levels of web integration.For those of you not familiar with St. Mark’s, it is one of the largest Coptic Orthodox churches in the country. The software needs of this church extend well beyond simply tracking member information in an Access database. While I will address the specific needs of our church’s management software later, I understand that many churches don’t have the same needs as we do. Therefore, this analysis will include many of the software systems we found insufficient for our needs, because they may well meet all your church’s needs. [...]
September 25th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
Hey, Andrew -
Thanks for joining us for the ICC! And thanks for the encouraging prop of the book. Really glad you all experienced that you mattered while at GCC!
mark
September 26th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Hello Mark,
I look forward to reading your book, thanks for sharing how Granger puts together such an amzaing experience.