Organization & Tools ⁽⁷⁾

There are so many little tasks every week that alone don't take up much time, but added together, amount to a substantial weekly workload. The more of these things I can get off my plate and simply check in on once in a while, the…

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…

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,…

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…