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  • 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 conversation at industry conferences. “If only churches would learn better how to change.” ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  jhook  on December 14, 2007

  • Transmitting Light

    Transparency is to show oneself; having the proper transmittal of light (for our purposes we are going to assume this light is from God); free from pretense or deceit and readily understood.  All of those definitions are great when you are trying to create a holistic work environment where people are growing personally, professionally and ...
    Posted to Engaging Talent (Weblog) by  tpolk  on November 29, 2007

  • 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 to drive change, 2) staff turnover, 3) lack of infrastructure for proper Internet access, ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  jhook  on November 1, 2007

  • 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, such as contact follow-up, activity registration, activity check-in, etc. If a church does not ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  Jeff Hook  on June 6, 2007

  • I now know what I only thought I knew before

    To kick-off the New Year I decided to do something different in my weekly one-on-one meetings with my direct reports. First, we will be meeting as a group to read and discuss The Leader’s Handbook by Peter Scholtes. Second, the one-on-one meetings will no longer be status updates of their respective departments but instead we will use the ...
    Posted to Daily Concerns (Weblog) by  csimmons  on January 17, 2007

  • Cha-cha-changes...

    …let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.  Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect His will really is. - Romans 12:2 This blog entry continues with more start-up information about the company and what we are all about.  One of the things the ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  Jeff Hook  on October 27, 2005