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• भगवान भारत के लिए मुझे बुलाया ... अब क्या?

  (To Translate the title from Hindi to English click here) As the missions pastor, I have been praying to know where God wants us to go as a church to reach people. Over the last few weeks he has been guiding me to India. I was thinking Aruba or maybe Read More... Posted Friday, December 05, 2008 11:45 AM by FTDeliverySvcs | 2 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice

• This just in... Church of the Prim and Proper in Chaos!

  To keep from leaving your church in a lurch, please don't create a single point of failure on your staff. This is where creating, fertilizing, and growing a healthy Fellowship One Champion team can be a life saver for many churches. Attached to the picture Read More... Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 2:27 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 0 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice

• I lost my receipt thingy.... NOW WHAT!?

  Last year I was attending a big church in Grapevine Texas. One thing you never want to do when attending this church is lose your receipt . They take your children's safety very seriously and they don’t mind making you wait to get that point across. The Read More... Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 4:11 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 5 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice

• What do I do with this 3 digit code?

  As a father of two, I still remember the first time that I dropped off my children in a Children’s Ministry when I was searching for a church home and a relationship with God. I didn’t have a clue of how secure my children were in those back rooms. During Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:05 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 9 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice, Check-In

• Critical Information About Check-in

  Hello... Hello... Is this thing on? One benefit to Fellowship Technologies that you may or may not know is that Big Brother is watching. No, this isn't the fictional character in George Orwell 's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four . But rather our nerdy database Read More... Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 11:14 AM by FTDeliverySvcs | 8 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice

• Swim Lane Documents: Contact Management 201

  In this blog entry I will be sharing something the delivery team has been working on. (When we are not doing the Delivery side of our job) We have been documenting processes and putting them into a usable form. The document needed to be flexible because Read More... Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 11:26 AM by FTDeliverySvcs | 6 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice

• Using Group Manager for Care Ministries: A Case Study

  Recently I was working with CrossWinds church in Dublin CA and came across a situation I had seen in the past but did not have a great solution to meet their needs . Recent advances in F1's ability to send contacts to small group leaders has provided Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:34 AM by FTDeliverySvcs | 6 Comments | Filed under: small groups, Pastoral Care, WebLink, Best Practice

• The Best First Time Visitor with Children Process EVER

  The pressure created by putting a title like that on a blog is not lost on me but I love this process. I have seen so many exciting and dynamic churches use this documented process and heard the success stories enough to know that this process has meat Read More... Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 4:00 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 0 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice

• Check-In Dos and Don'ts

  I have recently volunteered to be on site at churches when they go live with Fellowship One check-in . Not too long ago, I always passed on these opportunities because I believed it to be a waste of my time and a waste of the churches money. I had explained Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 5:09 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 4 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice

• Data Integrity Team Responsibilities

  Weekly Data Integrity Team Tasks Meet weekly initially to establish training guidelines and come up with a list of authorized data input specialist. Weekly meetings to establish how and in what format data will be tracked in Fellowship One. I.E. Will Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:42 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 0 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice

• Why Do We Need a Data Integrity Team?

  Church silos continue to be a problem at many churches I visit. What many churches don’t understand is that there is more than one type of silo. Communication between ministries (written and verbal) is the easiest to comprehend. Many churches will say Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:48 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 2 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice

• Fellowship One Champion Team

  One mistake we have made in the past in the Delivery Team at Fellowship Technologies is putting all of our eggs in one basket. This basket was the Fellowship One Champion. We would pour all of our knowledge and experience into this one person. They in Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:17 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 2 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice

• Silos… The Unspoken Barrier to Ministry

  My name is Matthew McMaster and I have been a Delivery Manager at Fellowship Technologies since March of 2004. In that time I have implemented over 100 churches. Some of them have been very sophisticated in how they communicate within their ministries Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:40 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 1 Comments | Filed under: First Time Visitors, Volunteers, Student Youth Check-In Name Tags, silo, teams, Best Practice

• Student Ministries - Name Tags - Are they worth it? 3 of 3

  I hope eveyone had a safe and fun holiday weekend! The last blog entry was all about making the name tags cool for the youth. This week, we’re going to talk about how to implement Self Check-In for Student Ministries. This last cool factor of name tags Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:23 AM by FTDeliveryTeam | 2 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice

• Student Ministries - Name Tags - Are they worth it? 2 of 3

  Last week we talked about the importance of Name Tags. The top 3 reasons for having the youth wear name tags were Name – Face Recognition Approachability 100% Attendance Reporting. Now, how do we get those cool congregants to wear name tags? We make it Read More... Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 9:18 PM by FTDeliveryTeam | 0 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice