Online Giving - Easy Tithe

A great feature that you could add to your website is the ability to give online.  Any user in the world can log on to your site, give, and money can be directly deposited into YOUR account.
Now, how do you do it?
There are 2 easy options I will tell you about: Paypal and Easy Tithe.
First, Paypal.  Paypal is pretty much [...]

Jott.com

One of my favorite tools.  A free one.  Are you ever somewhere, think of something, but don’t have a good place to write it down to remember it??  Do you use email and have a cell phone?  Then Jott is for you.
Here is how you use it.  

Call Jott. (after you set up your account)
It will [...]

Backup and Sync Contacts - Plaxo

Plaxo is actually a full-fledged social networking site now, but one of the greatest features of it is the ability to backup your address book from your Mac or PC for free.
Any address that you have on your volatile computer is safe on Plaxo because it automatically syncs without you even noticing it.
Also, if anyone in your [...]

Find Music - Rhapsody, iTunes

Today I am working all day on finding special music, scheduling, and planning.  That means I am making full use of Ministry Tools.  Putting the whole schedule on Airset, looking through my library on iTunes, and listening to music on Rhapsody.  
So, I thought I would give a few more tools to help with music for your church. [...]

How to Make a Good Design — EASY!!

It seems that churches often suffer from horrid-design-syndrome.  Which is a horrid shame.  I would consider designing to be extremely important in the church.  For events, website, logos, classes, promotions, announcements, etc.  It does a few extremely important things…

Creates interest and attention on the event
Indicates effort and interest put into the event
Communicates real desire for [...]

21 Factors that Influence the First Impression of Your Website’s Visitors

When a new visitor comes to your website for the first time an initial impression will be formed pretty quickly. A good first impression will drastically increase the chances of that visitor returning again, and a bad first impression will be difficult to overcome.
This list looks at 21 factors that will influence your visitor’s impression [...]

Skype - Video conferencing with Missionaries

There are much more applications that you could use Skype for, but this seems to be the most popular for churches.  
Skype is great because it is free, can be on any platform (Mac or Windows), and can do audio, video, or instant messaging.
Here is an idea to use it to stay in contact with [...]

Easy Worship - Multimedia Presentation Software

If you are inclined to using screens in your church Easy Worship makes this very intuitive.  The difficulty of making screens helpful rather than distracting is to make everything work during a live service.  Easy Worship makes transitions very smooth and puts all features into one simple interface.
Then there is the challenge of accommodating the file formats, Bible [...]

Gcast - free Podcast enabler

Pretty much every pastor I have ever talked to about a website has mentioned the desire for having their sermons available online.  Well, there are a lot of ways to do that, but it can get expensive pretty quick if you are not careful.  Hosting space is one of the major costs when talking about [...]

Email Mailing Lists

Simply one single email address (ex. staff@baptistchurch.com) that is received by multiple recipients.   It is like everyone is in the room hearing what others are saying.  There are basically 2 ways you can set them up: 
1. Everyone sees the email, but all replies are directed to the original sender of the email
2. The whole [...]