Adapt
Fellowship One surfaces many new opportunities for your church. One opportunity that sometimes gets overlooked is the chance to learn some relevant new technology. The days of packaged software and client/server architecture are quickly fading. Fellowship Technologies is a Software as a Service (SaaS). The SaaS model is widely acknowledged as the future of software distribution and usage. By giving people a chance to learn Fellowship One in particular and the SaaS model in general, people can acquire skills that have much more headroom than the ChMS packages churches use today.
Adjusting and adapting to anything new requires patience, humility and trust. If communication flows freely and the project stays in perspective, it’s much easier for people to adapt and adjust. When staff sees this as an opportunity for their own personal growth, as well as contribution to the growth of their church adaption can come more easily.
However, there is one thing to watch out for as you roll it out and that is being too broad. Next time we will touch on keeping the project Narrow.