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• 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

• 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 | 8 Comments | Filed under: 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 | 4 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

• Take A Census

  Attendance carries the stigma from your school days where everyone had to be in class and everyday attendance was taken. Census means that on some interval of your choosing you stop and count how many people are actually involved in this activity. Like Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:00 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 2 Comments | Filed under: small groups, attendance

• I am Delivery...

  I know where Seat 21F is and the value of “exit row seating” I know how useless airlines upgrade points can be I have 2 sets of toiletries, one for at home, one for my suitcase My toothpaste is less than 3 ounces and is carried in a one quart clear plastic Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:44 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 2 Comments

• Why Was I Successful at DC08?

  After all the cheering and applause died down following the DC08 conference (mostly in my head) I had to stop and look back at a very successful event and wonder why it (and more importantly I) was so successful. God played a big role in this year’s conference Read More... Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 7:27 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 5 Comments

• Change and Accountability -- two sides of the same coin

  It seems to go hand in hand when you talk about change it brings up accountability. When you talk about accountability it inevitably brings up the need to change things. Fellowship One is an enterprise solution for a church. Enterprise means the whole Read More... Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 6:30 AM by FTDeliverySvcs | 0 Comments

• Visitor Cards – Is it about the church or about the individual?

  Hello! I wanted to share with you my experiences of Visitor Cards. Visitor Cards or First Time Guest Cards or Connection Cards or… whatever you choose to call them play a very strong part in connecting a person into your church. However, some churches Read More... Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 6:25 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 2 Comments

• Self Check-In: The Red Headed Step Child

  Ok, I admit it… I have a bit of an inferiority complex. But I have it because I am misunderstood and underutilized. Why don’t you love me ? I am faster than my sibling “Assisted Check-In” and way more flexible than my other sibling “Rapid Barcode Check-In”. Read More... Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:50 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 7 Comments

• 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 | 3 Comments | Filed under: Best Practice

• Stories from the field: Paintballing for Christ

  I am on the plane flying back from Portland Oregon where I had a terrific onsite visit with Rolling Hills Community Church. For this trip I flew out a few hours early so I could hike Montoloma falls and truly experience the beauty that is the Pacific Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 4:43 PM by FTDeliverySvcs | 1 Comments