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A Seattle church automates giving and achieves online community

Puget Sound Christian Center in the greater Seattle area has undergone significant technology updating in its 30 years in order to meet the congregation’s needs and desires to connect and communicate with one another.

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Church ministry shouldn’t end at the property line

While traditional interaction occurs face-to-face, a growing percentage of church-goers connect through another medium — the Web. For Crossroads Church in Grass Valley, CA, their church lacked the kind of online presence that leadership felt was necessary for connecting with their congregation and reaching out to their local community.

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Web sites reveal the mission and culture of a church

When most churches think of a building project, often images of bulldozers, fundraising consultants, bricks and mortar come to mind but rarely a Web site. Although, countless studies have shown that the Web site is the first stop for many people looking to discover more about the church and determine if it might be a place where they could belong.

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Churches make the switch to high-end cameras for outreach

The intended distribution method and target audience for content determine how worship services are captured on camera and how those images are combined into a broadcast production.

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Web 2.0 tools can engage congregants, enhance ministries

The Internet is constantly changing. From its infancy about 15 years ago, “Web 1.0” was a place where businesses and organizations could broadcast information to the public. Users in return could then search for related topics based on their needs.

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Spread the good news in color to gain attention and responses

As communicators, what result do we want from our readers? Whether inside or outside the church, we all seek to inform, educate, or persuade as we communicate to others. Within the weekly messages to parishioners, church communicators hope to increase involvement, attendance, membership and overall contribution.

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Leaders should implement software based on needs, not constraints

For many organizations, effectively evaluating and selecting the right software to address organizational and management challenges is a difficult process. To determine the best software requires an honest analysis of needs and wants.

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Two new studies describe use of technology in churches

Protestant churches across the nation use various forms of emerging technology to influence people’s lives and enliven their church experience.

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Credit card use in churches can be good, bad or just plain ugly

Transactions are handled so differently now than in the past. Society has moved from coins to paper money, checks, and now electronic forms of payment such as credit cards or electronic funds transfers.

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Churches can guard against the threat of cybersquatting

My son sees me on the computer regularly and continually asks, “Can I go on the computer too?” He’s already using the Internet on a limited basis at school, so it seemed like a logical next step for him to click, drag and drop at home.

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