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• Year-end Report (January 2008)

  We have run all the final numbers on 2007 and are happy to report the results of a very good year. This blog post also highlights some of our past year’s major accomplishments. Our customer count at the end of the year was 706 church partners. Of those Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 5:34 AM by jhook | 1 Comments | Filed under: Fellowship Technologies, Year in Review

• Change or Die?

  We have seen over and over that the biggest hurdle to embracing the real value of better information systems in churches is change management, or should I say the lack thereof? Amongst us church management software vendors, it is even a point of occasional Read More... Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 10:35 AM by jhook | 2 Comments | Filed under: Fellowship One, Change, Process, Change Management, Effectiveness, Leadership

• 2007 OnDemand Conference

  One of my commitments to our partner churches is that Fellowship Technologies will stay current on what is happening in the overall software and technology industry. I came from that market and want to bring the best business and technology concepts from Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:50 PM by jhook | 0 Comments | Filed under: SaaS, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, Value

• What stops a church from fully Experiencing Fellowship One?

  As I write this blog entry for our new community site, I contemplated the above question: What stops a church from fully experiencing Fellowship One ? There are many different answers for the various customer situations ranging from 1) lack of leadership Read More... Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:29 PM by jhook | 8 Comments | Filed under: Fellowship One, Change, Process, Change Management

• So what is a Dynamic Church?

  Dynamic, simply put, means change. When we say we accelerate the dynamic church we mean we help it accelerate in growth. So how do we do that? We help it accelerate in growth by helping its processes scale so that it takes less people to do more things, Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:02 PM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Change, Church Growth, Culture

• Dynamic Church 07 - phenomenal!

  It has been a week now since the Dynamic Church 07 conference commenced. What a great time! I want to publicly thank the Fellowship Technologies staff for all the hard work they put into making this conference better than I could ever imagine. The energy Read More... Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:12 PM by Jeff Hook | 1 Comments | Filed under: Fellowship Technologies, Dynamic Church Conference

• Dynamic Church 07 is almost here!

  Are you a Fellowship One customer, but you ask yourself whether your church is really using the system to its full potential? Have I got a deal for you! Many of our customers have been asking us to sponsor a users’ and developers’ conference Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:56 PM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, Breaking News, Fellowship One, ChMS, Return on Ministry, Dynamic Church Conference

• Fellowship Technologies – three years old!

  Three years, over 500 customers and counting! This week Fellowship Technologies is celebrating a milestone – completing our third year in business. We use this time to reflect on how far we have come - to celebrate our many successes, and also to Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:37 PM by Jeff Hook | 1 Comments | Filed under: Breaking News, Fellowship Technologies

• One church or a loose confederation of ministries?

  We get to know a lot of churches in conjunction with our implementation of Fellowship One; currently we have sold over 500 churches. Plus we have talked to a whole lot more through the selling process. Clearly there are two different kinds of churches; Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 5:43 PM by Jeff Hook | 1 Comments | Filed under: Ministry, Effectiveness, Branding, Leadership

• Solution Selling includes educating the church on Best Practices

  Last night I received a call from the field from one of our Delivery Managers. For Fellowship Technologies, a Delivery Manager is a consultant who works with a church partner (customer) to assist them with their implementation of Fellowship One. The purpose Read More... Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:43 PM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, ChMS, Process, Assimilation, Return on Ministry

• Good Software Stewardship?

  Sometimes we come across a church that puts a halt to a software selection process because they come to the realization that they may not need a new church management software solution. Why? Because they find out that they are underutilizing what they Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:20 PM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Church Management Systems, ChMS, Assimilation, Value, Return on Ministry

• Could your church learn something from Google?

  Google is arguably one of the most successful software companies of the new millennium. No offense meant to Microsoft (I am still a very big proponent of .Net), but since Y2K, Google has evolved from simply a search engine to one of the most powerful Read More... Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 8:28 AM by Jeff Hook | 1 Comments | Filed under: Google, Culture

• Return on Ministry statistic . . . how fast are you growing?

  On Tuesday, October 17 th , 2006, the United States passed the 300 million mark in population. We are only the third country to ever pass this mark; the other two being China and India. This is amazing growth when you think of the modern age and where Read More... Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:10 PM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Return on Ministry, Church Growth

• It takes LEADERSHIP to change . . .

  In my last couple of blogs, I have been writing about how to make change happen. One of the essential elements of organizational change is leadership. I am convinced that in order for a church to thrive it requires leadership. But just like there are Read More... Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 3:56 PM by Jeff Hook | 1 Comments | Filed under: Leadership

• Building from your church’s vision

  In my last blog I wrote about change management and how it takes leadership and determination to motivate a church's staff to change. Experience and research teaches us that people have a difficult time changing unless confronted by one of two scenarios Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 7:18 PM by Jeff Hook | 0 Comments | Filed under: Strategic Plan, Vision