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Welcome to the Concordia Technology Solutions Resources Center. Here you will find a collection of articles, ebooks, webinars, and other tools to help you leverage technology in your ministry.
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Technology & Your Ministry
At Concordia Technology Solutions, we believe that technology can help you accomplish the management side of church work, so that you have more time for the real tasks of ministry.
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19:46Watch VideoThe Passionate Volunteer & the Communicator: Seeing Eye to Eye
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In my last post I touched on how I ditched a well-thought-out communication request form for more personal interactions with our ministry leaders. I think this idea of relationship...
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19:49Watch VideoIdeas for Saying Thank You to Donors and Volunteers
Ideas for Saying Thank You to Donors and Volunteers with Jenn Eickman
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My eyes have been opened over the last two years about showing appreciation. Not that I wasn’t appreciative before, but now that I’m in development, appreciation has become a large part...
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25:33Watch VideoEstablishing Planning Rhythms in Your Church Office
Ben Franklin once said, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” Hear from church communicator Katy Munson as she talks about how her church uses planning rhythms.
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Read ArticleEstablishing Planning Rhythms in Your Church Office
Ben Franklin once said, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” Although I’m one who loves a well thought out plan, I have a lot of growing to do when it comes to having a...
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15:23Watch VideoStaying Connected with Your Church's College Students
As our summer intern, Audrey, leaves CTS to go back to school, she has a few tips for churches on how to stay connected with college students who are away
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As college students are packing their bags to go back to school at the end of the summer, there are a few steps that churches can take to make sure their college students are feeling...
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21:26Watch VideoSegmenting Internal Audiences (or How to Get Emails Read)
Rarely is the same effort expended on communicating with internal audiences as with external ones. This leads to mounting frustrations and stress, but you can mitigate these feelings by simply segment
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Read ArticleSegmenting Internal Audiences (or How to Get Emails Read)
“Why haven’t they replied to the email? I sent it over a week ago.”—A pastor who shall remain anonymous That is a true complaint I have heard from another pastor. And I have heard...
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11:56Watch VideoMy Handy-Dandy Communication Form (and Why it Didn’t Work)
A form for requesting communications will effectively substitute face-to-face conversations, save time for everyone, and increase the quality of the communications. Right? Wrong!
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Read ArticleMy Handy-Dandy Communication Form (and Why it Didn’t Work)
On my job description, it says, “Develop templates for media, agendas, and the like to assist busy ministry teams and lay volunteers in creating better message-driven content in a more...
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23:41Watch VideoA Basic Lesson in How to Write for the Screen
There are three elements involved in communicating a message: the sender, the receiver, and the message itself. When a message goes wrong, it goes wrong at one of these three places. On the internet,
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Creating a church webpage should be easy, shouldn’t it? Whether we’re talking about a home page, an about page, or a simple blog post—type it up and hit “publish,” right? But if you...
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32:47Watch VideoWhy Connection Beats Technology in Ministry
Want to hear from Millennials themselves? Peter interviews young adults to hear their opinions on technology and social media. Watch our live conversation with college students about how they use soci
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Have you sat in a restaurant or in a line at the DMV and just observed? Like really watched people? Are people connecting with those around them? Or are they immersed in the five-inch...
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21:58Watch VideoCommunicating with Your Staff at a Multi-Site Church
Communication at multi-site churches can be extra difficult because you need to learn to communicate well with people you work with, and those coworkers are at a different location. It takes careful a
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For any organization, big or small, one of the biggest hurdles to overcome is the employees learning to communicate with one another. Most problems that occur within a church staff...
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24:33Watch VideoDo We Become Less Human as We Interact with Androids?
As android devices become more prevalent in our homes, is the biggest question we need to ask ourselves whether androids are human? Or is it whether we remain human as we learn to behave in inhuman wa
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Read ArticleDo We Become Less Human as We Interact with Androids?
On May 25, 2018, Quantic Dream released their much anticipated seventh game, Detroit: Become Human. (Warning: Link launches trailer, which contains swearing.) After spending a week or...
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