solutions to problems encountered in a church tech environment

Any event that only happens once a year tends to bring unique challenges and surprises, as well as things you wanted to do differently the next time but completely forgot about. For many years at our church, that was registering kids and volunteers for VBS.

It seems that in the past several years just about every software service has moved to the cloud and adopted a subscription model: Microsoft Office, the Adobe Creative Suite, Quickbooks, etc. The idea of running your own server that's physically sitting in your facility might…

Well, we're keeping the electronic drums. Most of the gripes I mentioned in my last article have been resolved, and the improvement that the drums have contributed to our mix in the room have been undeniable. In this article I want to cover all the…

We've used an acoustic drum kit for years at our church, and for most of those years without a drum shield (it made very little difference in the overall volume). The kit sounds great, but we're always right on the edge of our volume limit.

Last time I wrote about how we use Pikapods to host a Vaultwarden password manager for our staff. Today I want to share how we're using Pikapods to also host an automation server, specifically to connect Planning Center People with Mailerlite, our newsletter service. First,…

In the first article of this two-part series, I discussed why account security is important and gave a broad overview of passwords, multi-factor authentication, and password managers. In this article I'll dive into specifically how you can implement these principles in your organization. Keep in…

Typing in a password to access your bank account makes it less convenient than simply typing in your username or email address, but my guess is that you would agree that that password is very much worth the trouble to protect your money. The problem…

What is digital signage and where might you use it? Digital signage is just a term for putting helpful information on TV screens that you might have otherwise put on printed posters. While posters can be a great tool, they're static, and any time you…

Sometimes it's easy for expenses to go unnoticed, or at least not to consider that perhaps an alternative service might be cheaper. This was where we found ourselves when preparing our church's annual budget last year. We'd been using Ooma Office for several years and…

Our worship arts team is doing an experiment this year. And, shh, they don’t know it yet. But first, some context. When planning songs for a given Sunday, we’re typically looking at the planned sermon content for that week to see what songs might do…