I am testing out ministry management software called Churchdirector.com. We hope to use this for all ministry’s within the church. So far, it looks fairly straight forward. However, I have to “invite” volunteers. It would be nice if I could create an account for them on my own.
I am learning that people really like the opportunity to communicate about many things at all times of the day. In the past few days, I have witnessed or commented on the following:
Youth asking others to come and volunteer unload pumpkins at our pumpkin patch
Someone else at the pumpkin unloading saw my post with [...]
It’s the part of putting up a website that I have the most trouble with – designing the template. While can code a website (almost entirely) from scratch, the graphics and their layout are not my forte. So, I rely upon other to do their magic and voila, templates galore. Not exactly. [...]
It’s the inevitable question for any ministry coordinator – “Sorry to call you so late this (Saturday) evening, but I won’t be at church tomorrow, maybe you can find someone else to replace me”. No matter how many times you offer a ministry roster and remind all involved that locating their replacement is their [...]
It turns out that almost all the kids in my youth group have a YouTube page with videos. Now, if I can only get them interested in doing something for the church. Hmm…. Oh wait! We are doing something – that’s our summer project.
Here are the youth’s websites:
Godfather410
King Productions, Inc.
Their talents never cease [...]
This weekend I was pleasantly surprised to to have the church volunteer coordinator ask me if there wasn’t some way to get volunteers to confirm/change their Sunday assignments via an online system. Well, this was music to my ears. I had looked at some systems in the past. However, I was certain [...]
My church has been using FB for quite a few months now and I am still astounded how much conversation takes place between Sunday services. Not a day goes by without someone discussing a personal experience or offering a topic for discussion. While I expected some participation, this is larger than I thought. I [...]
And I think it will set the future course of the Episcopal Church here in the USA. As a late comer to the party, I am still feeling my way around this church. I have found much to my liking. I have also found some things I profoundly dislike and find distasteful. However, this [...]
The youth group finished a new video for uploading this weekend. However, I have learned a few things during this process:
It’s sometimes hard to control the program you used to make the video. We used iPhoto for the second one and we could not identify how to move a picutre’s sequence.
The video file is quite [...]
