Boyd Pelley

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If I were a pastor writing to my congregation about texting to give. Here's the blog post, email and/or newsletter article I would write. Maybe it will give you some ideas or use it as it is, just change the phone number.
Tags: Giving, Text-To-Church
- Stewardship grows. Convenience and consistency increase giving.
- Seamlessly integrated. Contributions automatically post to donor's giving record.
- Save money. On monthly access and per transaction fees.
- State of the art simple.
- Service you know and trust.
Tags: Giving, New Release, Text-To-Church
This blog post is for our newest customers. You are done with the search process, opted to continue your trial, and filled out our follow up form to help us help you get going with excellence. Here are the next steps I would do. Let's go!
Easter is for Church what the Super Bowl is for football. Everything comes down to this. All the creativity, caring, dreams and hard work boil down to this annual celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. By his sacrifice alone, we are healed. This message changed the world. It changes people. Lots of people. People your church is called to love.
A few years ago, a fortune 100 executive, Russ Mcguire, wrote an article for Christian Computing Magazine identifying four technological revolutions in the past 40 years. Here are his four revolutions:
Yesterday, I did a workshop at the Southwest Small Groups conference in Las Vegas that my friend, Mark Howell, is hosting. The title of my workshop was Small Group Intelligence Software. I thought I would take a couple of weeks to share some of that content. Today, I'd like to consider the role of software in ministry. This diagram illustrates it well.
Tags: Groups
A few years ago, we heard about and met a company that had introduced giving by text overseas and were bringing it to the United States. At first, I was skeptical. We've been doing this long enough to know that not every new thing is an improvement. Adoption is more important in the long run than innovation. We decided to watch, listen and learn. We became convinced in late 2015 and began building our own, integrated, version of text-to-give in mid and late 2016. Last week we rolled it out. Here is how we became convinced.
Tags: Giving, New Release, Text-To-Church
For years I've done webinars to show prospects and clients together how to get the most out of the different features of the software. At first, this was fine because the feature set was small groups and then membership. As we added features, I added webinars (virtual classes) for contributions, check-in, volunteers & events, and setup & help. For about a year I've had a feeling that we could do better. With input from clients and staff, we just changed our learning process to three stages: Get Acquainted, Get Going, and Get Trained.
Tags: Membership