The simplest, fastest, easiest way to check-in at your church. Icon Systems is excited to announce Icon Check-In: a fast, secure, and safe child check-in software for churches that lets your whole team work together in real-time! Checking in children as fast as possible is essential to a smooth-running event, like a Sunday morning worship… ⪼ Continue Reading…
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Connecting your people in the community
Churches go to great lengths connecting to their member and visitors. This type of connection is no different from organizations connecting to their customers. After all aren’t church members and their visitors the ones that largely fund the church, just like when customers buy products from companies, the money made on the sale funds the… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Why’s nobody coming to my church groups? (p2)
Here’s the second part of this two-part series. Please read the first part here. 2. Trying to fit everyone into one nicely made church group model is what I call the magic silver bullet syndrome. The church believes that there’s one magic silver bullet (group model) that will work for every one and elevate group participation… ⪼ Continue Reading…
Why is Nobody Coming to my Church Groups? (p1)
Church leaders that work with small groups wonder why the percentage of small group attendance is just a fraction of the overall church attendance. Why is it important for people to participate in groups? Church leadership knows when people connect or dare we use the cliché term ‘plugged in’, they will be a viable part… ⪼ Continue Reading…
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…