Category: Software

  • Practice Church Plant Guest Followup

    Practice Church Plant Guest Followup

    Making guests feel welcomed and wanted is an important part of building a healthy church culture. So important that you need to practice your church plant guest followup process before your grand opening. Maybe you’ve dreamed up or read about a killer guest followup strategy. Whatever it is, there are going to be a lot […]

  • 3 Keys to Handling Church Donor Info

    3 Keys to Handling Church Donor Info

    Part 4 in a 4-part series on How to Count Church Offerings In America today, the information that comes through the church offering plate needs to be safeguarded as much as the money itself. Here are 3 keys to handling church donor info: Keep it Organized At the end of the year, your tax-savvy donors […]

  • How to Create a Church Plant Budget – part 2

    How to Create a Church Plant Budget – part 2

    Last week we looked at first things to consider when you create a church plant budget. Here’s a few more: Startup vs. Recurring Expenses For a lot of expense categories, it makes sense to think of the budget on an regular monthly basis: if your worship department budget is $2,400 for the year, you have $200/month […]

  • Church Plant Freebie Friday – Reftagger Scripture Hyperlinks

      Reftagger automatically tags Bible references on your website and shows readers a preview of the entire verse. I discovered the Reftagger WordPress plugin on one of my planters’ websites almost by accident. I was adding a ‘what we believe’ page to his site. After copying & pasting his content onto the page, I thought […]

  • Church Plant Freebie Friday – YouVersion Live

    I read the review and instructions over on ChurchMag, and I can’t say it better: YouVersion’s Live features give the mobile user a chance to interact with the Bible and your custom content during the service. Launching the Bible app from their phone (iOS, Android, et al), they simply: Choose Live Search for the church […]

  • Church Plant Freebie Friday – Signup Genius

    Signup Genius is a great FREE tool for organizing your church plant prayer team and/or volunteers around events, projects, etc. Here are a couple of ways you could use it: Church Plant Outreach Events Your launch team is participating in a local community event and you need people to take 1-hour shifts during a 6-hour […]

  • Use a Password Manager

    With the advent of Web 2.0 and all of our apps being in the Cloud, I’m sure your online accounts have multiplied exponentially like mine. Now mine’s an extreme case, perhaps, because I work with so many planters all the time. But I just crossed the 1,000 logins mark. Yeah, like I’m going to remember […]

  • Electronic Offering Voucher

    One of the residual objections to using online giving at your church plant will be from people who like to make the offering an active, participatory part of the worship service. “If they just deduct it from my checking account, it doesn’t feel like giving.” Give Them Something to Give In light of the many […]

  • FREE Church Plant Resource Friday: Google Stuff

    For years I’ve been setting up my church planters with Google Apps for their email service. It’s free for any organization [as of Dec 2012, Google no longer offers a free option], and along with 10 email addresses, you get the standard Gmail suite: docs (now called “drive”), calendar, shared contacts, etc…  I usually add […]