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15 Things Every Church Must Have in Its Technology Stack

When I was young, I used to collect and trade baseball cards with the other kids in the neighborhood. The cards we collected were not really worth much money, so whenever I tried to...
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Protecting Your Church Members’ Privacy

If you’ve purchased anything in the last twenty or so years, you’ve almost certainly experienced it: that moment when you get to the register to purchase an inconsequential item,...
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How to Find Joy in Your To-Do List

I’m always impressed by a good marketing strategy, and the folks at Netflix have shown once again they know how to market. On January 1, 2019, the day when New Year’s resolutions are...
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Pros and Cons of Slack for Churches

With the rapid-fire pace of web applications today, it seems there’s a new must-have product about every other week. Generally, these come and go and aren’t actually all that new or...
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5 Ways to Implement Agile Methodology in Churches

Sometimes churches move at the speed of committees. So there’s a lot we can learn from the software development world’s use of agile methodology, in which prototypes are created quickly, tested early,
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5 Ways to Implement Agile Methodology in Churches

Have you ever worked on a project for a church committee where you’ve spent weeks meeting, planning, studying, and preparing to make a decision, then a few more weeks double-checking...
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Adjusting Your Schedule to Get More Productive and Creative

One of my greatest struggles working in a communications role for a church is finding the balance between executing existing plans or ideas and finding space for creativity and...
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Evernote for Pastors, Church Offices, and Ministry Teams

Before computers became integrated with our lives, the big office complaint was about paper. A good deal of our communication and information storage involved paper. How to store that...
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Software Training for Successful Change

Perhaps you’ve heard this story before: a congregation invests a great deal of money in a new church management software, rolls it out to pastors, secretaries, and other users....
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Resources for Continuing Education in the Church

Our churches can’t always afford to hire people to fill each role we need to do the ministry God has called us to do. That doesn’t mean, however, that God doesn’t provide exactly what we need to accom
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Resources for Continuing Education in the Church

In a perfect world, our churches would have all the financial means to employ ginormous staffs who can serve both the people in our congregations and the communities around us. We’d...
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Delegating to Trusted Volunteers to Give Yourself More Time

Many of us working in the church have a hard time letting go of tasks, but delegating work to volunteers can benefit both you and the church's members. Hear more from Andrew Osborne, director of worsh
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Delegating to Trusted Volunteers to Give Yourself More Time

If you’re a church worker, you never have a shortage of ways to stay busy. It seems like as soon as you finish your Sunday services, you’re already running out of time to get everything...
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Communicating with Your Staff at a Multi-Site Church

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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Protecting Your Family Online

Because of their leadership with various communication channels, church communicators are sometimes asked by parents how to keep kids safe online. This article was originally posted on...
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Purchasing Audio & Visual Equipment - A Guide for Churches
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Understanding Vocation in a Machine-Filled World

There’s a story that’s told of a wise man to whom a king was indebted. The king offered him his choice of any reward in the kingdom, but the wise man demurred. Instead he asked only...
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Peace in the Chaos: Managing Stress during Holy Week

What can we do when the schedule is packed and we feel like we’re juggling twelve things while hopping on one foot and playing a banjo? Here are some tips from Pastor Daniel Ross about managing stress
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Peace in the Chaos: Managing Stress During Holy Week

This is not a usual Concordia Technology Solutions blog post. In fact, there will be very little discussion about technology at all. No trends, no flashing doodads, no talk about social...
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Harnessing Technology So It Doesn’t Harness Us

DCE Katy Munson advocates approaching the conversation on how much and when to use technology from a stewardship perspective—managing the resources God has given to us, particularly in our homes.
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Management

15 Things Every Church Must Have in Its Technology Stack

When I was young, I used to collect and trade baseball cards with the other kids in the neighborhood. The cards we collected were not really worth much money, so whenever I tried to...

Protecting Your Church Members’ Privacy

If you’ve purchased anything in the last twenty or so years, you’ve almost certainly experienced it: that moment when you get to the register to purchase an inconsequential item,...

How to Find Joy in Your To-Do List

I’m always impressed by a good marketing strategy, and the folks at Netflix have shown once again they know how to market. On January 1, 2019, the day when New Year’s resolutions are...

Pros and Cons of Slack for Churches

With the rapid-fire pace of web applications today, it seems there’s a new must-have product about every other week. Generally, these come and go and aren’t actually all that new or...

5 Ways to Implement Agile Methodology in Churches

Sometimes churches move at the speed of committees. So there’s a lot we can learn from the software development world’s use of agile methodology, in which prototypes are created quickly, tested early,

5 Ways to Implement Agile Methodology in Churches

Have you ever worked on a project for a church committee where you’ve spent weeks meeting, planning, studying, and preparing to make a decision, then a few more weeks double-checking...

Adjusting Your Schedule to Get More Productive and Creative

One of my greatest struggles working in a communications role for a church is finding the balance between executing existing plans or ideas and finding space for creativity and...

Evernote for Pastors, Church Offices, and Ministry Teams

Before computers became integrated with our lives, the big office complaint was about paper. A good deal of our communication and information storage involved paper. How to store that...

Software Training for Successful Change

Perhaps you’ve heard this story before: a congregation invests a great deal of money in a new church management software, rolls it out to pastors, secretaries, and other users....

Resources for Continuing Education in the Church

Our churches can’t always afford to hire people to fill each role we need to do the ministry God has called us to do. That doesn’t mean, however, that God doesn’t provide exactly what we need to accom

Resources for Continuing Education in the Church

In a perfect world, our churches would have all the financial means to employ ginormous staffs who can serve both the people in our congregations and the communities around us. We’d...

Delegating to Trusted Volunteers to Give Yourself More Time

Many of us working in the church have a hard time letting go of tasks, but delegating work to volunteers can benefit both you and the church's members. Hear more from Andrew Osborne, director of worsh

Delegating to Trusted Volunteers to Give Yourself More Time

If you’re a church worker, you never have a shortage of ways to stay busy. It seems like as soon as you finish your Sunday services, you’re already running out of time to get everything...

Communicating with Your Staff at a Multi-Site Church

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...

Protecting Your Family Online

Because of their leadership with various communication channels, church communicators are sometimes asked by parents how to keep kids safe online. This article was originally posted on...

Purchasing Audio & Visual Equipment - A Guide for Churches

Understanding Vocation in a Machine-Filled World

There’s a story that’s told of a wise man to whom a king was indebted. The king offered him his choice of any reward in the kingdom, but the wise man demurred. Instead he asked only...

Peace in the Chaos: Managing Stress during Holy Week

What can we do when the schedule is packed and we feel like we’re juggling twelve things while hopping on one foot and playing a banjo? Here are some tips from Pastor Daniel Ross about managing stress

Peace in the Chaos: Managing Stress During Holy Week

This is not a usual Concordia Technology Solutions blog post. In fact, there will be very little discussion about technology at all. No trends, no flashing doodads, no talk about social...

Harnessing Technology So It Doesn’t Harness Us

DCE Katy Munson advocates approaching the conversation on how much and when to use technology from a stewardship perspective—managing the resources God has given to us, particularly in our homes.