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…
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Group Export Makes Pre-filled Registration Forms Possible
A new group list export has been released in response to customer requests for an output format that can be used in mail-merge fashion to produce a pre-filled Sunday School registration form for each child. This export includes information for secondary households. It also assumes that a member group exists for the Sunday School class. Output… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Church Small Groups and New Visitors
I’m reminded of a blog entry by Seth Godin where he talks about two different organizational models. He discusses for-profit industries, but the organizational concepts are the same for any organization. One model is the easy and straight forward where you get paid for your creation or service. The other model, which Seth goes into… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Using Birthday Reports to Select an Age Group
One of our customers recently contacted us with an interesting scenario. She needed to be able to identify youngsters in their church who would be 5 years old by 9/1/2014. She asked us how she could generate such a list in IconCMO. IconCMO has several birthday reports which can provide such information. We started by… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Favorite Recipes from the Icon Team Part 1
Josh’s Bacon chili 1 pound thick sliced bacon 2-3 pound ground beef 2 packages of fresh sliced baby bella mushrooms 1 large sweet onion chopped 1 to 1 1/2 green pepper chopped 3 cloves garlic or garlic powder for taste (if using fresh garlic mince it) 3 cans petite diced tomatoes 1 can chili beans… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Summer months are here!!!! Take a break!
Here in the upper Midwest the summer months are too precious of a thing to waste. Here are some activities the staff at Icon recommend: 1. Take in a ball game 2. Plant a Garden 3. Go to the Lake 4. Hang out by the pool 5. Have a Picnic We would love to hear… ⪼ Continue Reading…