Boyd Pelley

Boyd Pelley
Co-founder, Churchteams. From 1990 to 2008 served as discipleship, administrative and family pastor of churches in New Mexico, Nebraska and Texas. Married 30+ years, 2 married adult children.
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5 Ways Software Can Help Your Church Grow

Posted by Boyd Pelley on 3/7/19 1:34 PM

A church executes its vision by developing a strategy. But, whether or not that strategy succeeds is determined by how well a church uses its software. 

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Tags: Church Management Software, Best Practices

Workflow Magic: First Time Guests

Posted by Boyd Pelley on 3/5/19 8:55 AM

The most obvious use of workflows is to follow up people who have visited your church for the first time.  You want to make them feel welcome, answer any questions they might have and invite them back.  The goal of this workflow is simple: get people to come a second time.  

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Tags: Automation

Meet NED - Next generation EDitor

Posted by Boyd Pelley on 2/26/19 8:00 AM

NED gives you the power to communicate in a bold, fresh, new way.   He offers those of us who don't know how to code the ability to create incredible emails and email templates.  And we just released him into the Churchteams application.  NED is our Next generation EDitor. If you haven't met him already, let me introduce you

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Tags: New Release, Communication

Workflow Magic: Context For A New Series On Workflows

Posted by Boyd Pelley on 2/19/19 8:20 AM

Ready to use our Church Management System to automate some of those important but repetitious administrative, communication and follow-up tasks?  Workflows are here to help. 

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Tags: Automation

New releases. The mysteries of programming.

Posted by Boyd Pelley on 2/12/19 7:40 AM

 

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Tags: New Release

We're Putting Our Church Management Software on Trial for Your Review

Posted by Boyd Pelley on 2/5/19 7:53 AM

We offer a 30 Day Free Trial of our Church Management Software because confidence in choosing the tool that will be the back-end server of your entire ministry is extremely important.  Feel free to use the trial as an opportunity to occasionally login and play around to get a feel. But, here are some ideas on how to make sure the trial gives you the results you really want.

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Tags: Church Management Software

Check scanning for data entry and remote deposit capture: how we compare.

Posted by Boyd Pelley on 1/29/19 7:53 AM

Last year we released an upgrade for scanning checks for batch entry and remote deposit capture.  This blog post summarized the research and re-thinking that went into that feature development.

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Tags: Giving

How SMART is Your Database?

Posted by Boyd Pelley on 1/22/19 7:40 AM

 

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Tags: Groups, Text-To-Church

New in 2019:  Integration With eSPACE

Posted by Boyd Pelley on 1/8/19 7:36 AM

Calendars are a timely topic for the start of a new year.  Here are a couple of blog posts I did on 3 Problems Calendars Help Solve and Using Google For Church Calendars.  Though Google is helpful for many churches, we recognize that there are additional challenges and software possibilities for managing church facilities.  

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Tags: Groups

Tis The Blog Before Christmas

Posted by Boyd Pelley on 12/18/18 10:11 AM

This is my last blog post for the year and may be a little geeky, but I'm going to share it with you anyway. I've always loved this poem and have customized it before for Christmases past. But, this one is for Christmas present. Receive it not just from me, but from our team as well. This is why we do what we do.  

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Tags: Best Practices

Measuring Small Groups Compared To Worship

Posted by Boyd Pelley on 12/11/18 7:12 AM

Most churches measure worship attendance.  They also have some sort of metric for small group attendance.  Comparing one to the other demonstrates how effective they are at moving people from being anonymous to being known - from rows to circles. 

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Tags: Best Practices

WFX 2018 New Product Award & Better Sleep

Posted by Boyd Pelley on 11/27/18 7:45 AM

Great news, Churchteams friends and fans.  WFX magazine recognized Text-to-ME with a New Product of The Year Award for 2018!  Some of you may recall that we won the same recognition last year for Text-to-Check-in.  It was announced at the WFX Conference and Expo in Orlando recently.  Here is their announcement of the winners.

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Tags: Church Management Software

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