Category: Tech Gadgets

  • 5 Ways to Use Your Church Plant Target Area Map

    5 Ways to Use Your Church Plant Target Area Map

    Whether you’re planting a church in a community that’s new to you or returning to plant in your home town, you need to be an expert on your community. Here are 5 great ways to use a church plant target area map to help you make a difference in your town. Free Church Plant Target […]

  • How to Podcast Church Plant Sermons

    How to Podcast Church Plant Sermons

    Podcasting sermons has always been complicated & confusing for me. And I’m pretty handy with software stuff. There have been a couple of decent but limited tools that have come & gone over recent years, but figuring out how to podcast church plant sermons has been off my radar for a while. Turns out, it […]

  • Free Church Offering Counting Tools

    Free Church Offering Counting Tools

    Part 3 in a 4-part series on How to Count Church Offerings It doesn’t get much more practical than this. Here are the church offering counting tools and the step-by-step process your Counting Team needs every week: Keep in mind that this is geared toward the mobile church plant. There might be a few things […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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: Sitegeist

    Free Demographics App Want the quick & dirty lowdown on the community where you’re church planting? Sitegeist is the free app for your mobile device that gives you quick insight into: People Housing Fun Weather History Available now in the App Store and Google Play. It’s another free & easy way to learn about your […]

  • Electronic Connection Card for Your Church Plant

    Call it a Connection Card or a Communication Card or whatever, but getting contact information from a visitor is the weak link in your ability to follow up and get them connected. For years churches have been using paper versions. More recently, some have begun using kiosks & computers in the lobby. Why not add […]