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.

We are looking forward to being a part of Exponential 2019.  I asked their team to give us a post to share with you guys some of the Exponential team's thinking about mobilization - a huge value for Churchteams as well.  Here it is. Enjoy.

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.

Our pastoral staff does a fantastic job of presenting the core values of our church each year in a sermon series.  Worship.  Connect.  Serve.  Invest.  We have them posted on our website.  We have signage for the foyer.  We even go into deep detail during the membership class.  However, we found that when it came to actually putting these core values into practice, some folks were at a loss as to where to start.

Whether you are new to Churchteams or power users, plan to join our team and other CT users for our first ever User's Gathering on Monday afternoon, April 23rd before Watermark Church's Church Leaders Conference April 24-26, 2018. 

When Mark and I started, the motivation was to build software to help churches make disciples and build teams.  For us, people are intrinsically the focus of this.  Resources like space and money, though important, have not been the problems that we've built software to solve.  There are other software products focused on just these issues.  I was explaining to our marketing partner a couple of months ago that our focus is on everything related to "People Data."  In my webinars I often talk about the 5 Software sets that from my perspective every church needs, and Churchteams is just one of them.   The one place where all your people data can live.  Here they are:

Churches have always addressed the needs of families.  Priority is often given to worship and the education or discipleship of not only children, but also their parents. As the role of marriage and family continues to denigrate in our culture, churches are taking up the slack to help people better understand and align with God's design.  Although we don't do content for training, another question on the minds of these churches is how can a church database help manage family ministry?  Here how we do it.

Have you ever been on a trip and heard that familiar robotic voice…rerouting? The implication is that you’ve made a wrong turn somewhere and you need to get back on track. Sometimes, it’s not that you made a wrong turn, but the GPS that you are following found a faster, better route to the same destination.

A few weeks ago one of our clients was having an issue with a company that was purchased a couple of years ago by a private equity firm.  He contacted me to see if we might have an idea about what was going on.   When I emailed the company to learn more, I discovered that they were training new frontline support staff.  They had hired young people with a great heart who did not yet have the experience our client expected and needed.

Anytime someone asks about a specific solution to a problem, we ask questions to better under the problem itself first.  This practice enables us to take a fresh look at a problem rather than simply comparing it to other solutions.   Calendars is a great example.  What are the problems that calendars exist to solve in churches?   Here are the three that I've come up with and how we've chosen to address them.  

In 2014, our friends at Leadership Network found that over 8,000 churches in the U.S. were multisite.  And, that was 3 years ago!  In a blog post last year, Portable Church points out that churches of all sizes are going multisite.  This isn't a fad, it's now a normal part of ministry.  In fact I go to a campus of a very large, multisite church ... and love it.   So, what must church software be able to do to serve this growing movement?   Here are six things I believe are essential.

"Let us not give up meeting together as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the day approaching."  Hebrews 10:24-25