Let’s get a few facts out of the way first. There is no one solution that will work for every fellowship, synagogue, Christian or other churches. Secondly, church software shouldn’t be picked based on bottom line pricing – ever. Click here to see why. Pricing shouldn’t be reviewed until after the church made the decision… ⪼ Continue Reading…
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How Long for a Worship Sermon? (part 2)
The youth culture: (cont.) This is the second part of a two part series. If you haven’t read the first part you may want to read it first before moving on. In the last blog, we asked if the younger culture’s questioning should be dismissed or looked down at? The answer is, NO. The older… ⪼ Continue Reading…
How long for Worship Service? (part 1)
How long for Worship Service? Is this just another way of saying how long should a pastor preach? 🙂 The idea for this blog came from reading an email from Steve the editor of CCMag, when he posed the question “How long do you preach and why”? My next stop was Google to see what… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Happy Thanksgiving from Icon Systems!
I thought it would be nice to put together a post in honor of Thanksgiving. Taking a moment to pause and reflect on what the holiday is really about is refreshing amidst the traveling, football, and shopping chaos. So last week I sent out an email to the entire Icon Systems office asking everyone what… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Handling a Large Credit Card Refund
A while back, one of our customers presented us with a scenario involving a large credit card refund that we thought had the makings for some good discussion here on the blog. For purposes of anonymity, we’ll change some of the details while keeping the basic accounting concepts intact. The church’s pastor had been given… ⪼ Continue Reading…
In Church – Are more People Producers or Consumers?
Do you see more producers or consumers in the church or the community? For example, do you see others: consume more raw materials in a week than what they produce, or vice versa, or produce something for the greater good of humanity verses consume things that bring humanity down, or in the church consume the… ⪼ Continue Reading…