Years of ministry sit unused on drives across your campus. AI is how you find it again — and how you give your media team their week back. By Christina Kennedy Someone’s first introduction to your church happens on a Tuesday, on a lunch break, scrolling. They were not looking for a church. A 30-second […]
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By Michael Lattis Church leaders and staff are called to wisely administer the resources God has given them. Stewardship, however, extends beyond managing finances. It also includes protecting information. Caring for congregants’ personal and sensitive data is a sacred responsibility that reflects the trust members place in their church. Discretion helps safeguard not only […]
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Don’t outsource your discernment Artificial Intelligence is no doubt one of — if not the — defining technological advancement of our generation. In the past 100 years, humanity has gone from inventing airplanes to landing on the moon, and from creating the internet to building machines capable of generating essays, writing code, answering questions, […]
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Why similar organizations experience very different outcomes By Jon Barron A ministry has a major water loss over a weekend. The policy responds. Adjusters are assigned. Mitigation begins. On paper, the organization is covered. By Monday morning, however, the harder questions are operational: Where will programs meet? Who speaks to staff, donors, residents, parents, or […]
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The news and media are full of stories about how AI will either solve all of our problems or ruin our lives — and amidst all of that chatter, folks still wonder: Is AI safe? When people ask this question, they might mean several things: • Is my data safe? • Is the information […]
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By Brianne Shaw It wasn’t part of the program. It happened off to the side at a conference, between sessions, the kind of moment where someone finally says what they’ve actually been thinking. “I want this,” a pastor told me. “I just can’t figure out how to use AI.” He wasn’t skeptical. He wasn’t pushing […]
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LESS CHASING, MORE STEWARDSHIP Simplifying church finance without losing accountability Church Executive: Why do churches struggle to simplify accounting without sacrificing completeness? Adam Alphin: Church finance is complex because churches are managing funds, not one pool of money. Operations, missions, building projects, youth, benevolence and other restricted purposes all need to be tracked so each […]
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Why humility and wisdom should go hand in hand As someone who considers himself a quasi-IT “professional,” I’ll admit something many of us in technology probably won’t say out loud: we can sometimes come across as a bit … all-knowing. You know the look — slight head tilt, confident nod, maybe a quiet sigh when […]
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Why the Church must champion real human connection in an age of loneliness By Denise Craig, CAE, CCA Walk into any airport, coffee shop or college campus today and you’ll see something both fascinating and heartbreaking: people talking to their phones. They’re not scrolling, not texting, but talking. On the other end of that conversation […]
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(Above, left to right) Kingdom Kids Director Mary Tod Braswell; Ministry Coordinator Sarah Miranda; Worship + Communications Pastor Reid Work; Youth Director Hunter Stonebraker; Lead Designer Mary Kate Kitsmiller; Assimilations Coordinator + Interim Kingdom Kids Coordinator Logan Hunt; College + Young Adult Director Caleb Anderson; Teaching Pastor Will Campbell Six years ago, Reid Work and […]
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