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In past years, many of us have separated how businesses run from how churches run. The church isn’t about making a profit and getting more revenue, but that doesn’t mean there are a lot of things we can learn about operations, efficiency, and even the techniques of onboarding.
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Most of us have visited a new church for the first time. It’s a unique experience and one that many churches struggle to perfect. Thinking through each step that affects a newcomer can be tricky, especially if you have been part of the church for years and know everything there is to know.
How do we get a sense of what’s happening with our churches’ collective presence on YouTube? There currently isn’t a one-click YouTube category to find religion & spirituality content like over on Apple Podcasts. That’s why we’ve rounded up the 23 most popular YouTube channels for churches, both in the United States and other countries too, sorted by the number of subscribers.
There are still many educators for whom online education represents uncharted territory or a medium for which their skills are “good enough,” and not excellent. Here are a couple reasons to level up the online experience for students with a video-sharing platform.
For all churches, the pursuit of efficiency is high on the list of things to achieve. When churches and Sunday services run efficiently, the church serving experience is far less stressed and everyone is released to be more Kingdom-focused than system-focused. This is why churches must use integrated ministry platforms to aid their tasks.
In past years, many of us have separated how businesses run from how churches run. The church isn’t about making a profit and getting more revenue, but that doesn’t mean there are a lot of things we can learn about operations, efficiency, and even the techniques of onboarding.
Now that there are actual VR churches in existence – ones with real congregations and even baptisms – it’s clear that we do not have to wait for a world where church can be held in the metaverse any longer. In this article, we’ll explore what is making it easier than ever.
Bible software can be a great resource for Bible study, graduate studies, sermon prep, personal devotions, group reading plans, and the list goes on. But with so many different options on the market, it can be hard to know which one is right for you. The following considerations will help.
Drafting your sermon application could be tedious, especially looking for actionable sections of your passage. With the use of Logos Bible Software, you could have these imperative verbs highlighted automatically, making sermon prep easier.
At the rate of 30% of volunteers quitting to serve each year, the church doesn’t want to give willing community members a reason to join that statistic. Using smart software that allows volunteers to easily and quickly sign up for opportunities helps.
Get featured on the Church Tech Today blog when you answer some industry-specific questions about your workstation, your gear, and your church's livestream details.
Lighting consoles are the stuff of dreams when you’re a church lighting director. For Jeremiah Trombley from San Antonio’s CityChurch, he has found a solution in the Hog4 Lighting Rig.
Tyndale offers several editions of the Filament Bible that pair with Filament, an app filled with study tools, devotionals, videos, and interactive content.
How many apps do you have on your phone? In the last month, how many apps have you downloaded?
According to Quartz, the average iPhone user downloads fewer than one app to their phone a month. It’s a staggering number, considering Apple boasts 78 million app downloads since 2008. The data suggests that people love to download apps, but they are selective in what they download. To win the coveted home screen space, the app needs to provide real function and content that keeps the user coming back for more. If it doesn’t check those boxes, the delete button is just a finger stroke away.
As it relates to the church, there are a growing number of apps your members can download. There are giving-only apps. Video and audio apps for your sermons. There are live streaming apps. There are note-taking apps for your sermon notes. There are several Bible apps. There are even bulletin-only apps.
While we love that virtually every aspect of the church has gone mobile, there is such a thing as too many apps. Strange for a mobile app company to say, right?
We’ve all experienced this phenomenon at a restaurant. You open up the menu, and there are so many options you feel overwhelmed and lost. It makes deciding what to eat feel almost impossible. As a result, you end up ordering an old standby that likely isn’t the best option on the menu, or you pass altogether.
With app download stats as they are, your members and guests might download and use one church-related mobile app. How do you make the best use of that one download?
Three key things to consider:
1) Leverage Your Brand to Drive Downloads and Usage
Your members have a relationship with your brand. They know it. They trust it. They are much more likely to download and use your app than a third-party app where there’s not a relationship.
2) Create Connection to Drive Generosity
Technology alone does not drive generosity. Rarely is giving the first feature people use in our apps. In fact, it’s usually the third or fourth. This tells us that users are watching videos, listening to sermons, reviewing sermon notes or connecting in another way first. This connection leads them to the give button. This is why our average church sees a 31.5% increase in their online giving. It’s why our average gift is $185. Connection drives generosity.
3) Make Your App the One-Stop Shop
Your app should serve as the digital front door to your church. Instead of pointing your members to multiple apps, you should point them to one app and get them to everything they need from there. If you want to connect with your people through mobile, it has to be easy.
If your members are only going to download one app, whose app is it going to be?
To learn more about Aware3 and how they can help you with your branded church app, visit them here.
Tony is the co-founder and CEO Aware3. Prior to starting Aware3, Tony worked for Accenture, at top three consulting firm, helping Fortune 500 companies grow through mobile. In 2013, his heart led him to apply that knowledge and experience in an area he felt needed it the most – the Church.
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[…] An average church with a mobile app sees a 31.5% increase in their online giving. And an average gift of $185. (Aware3) […]
So, what features of a church app are most important? Sermons, of course… We have a mobile app (which has become necessary anyway). As I see it, a church app is specific to members, limited to fewer features, and a duplication of work (e.g., in addition to posting a sermon the web, it has to be added to the app.) that said, our members are not utilizing the website.
Thanks for your comment, Ginny. You hit on a topic that we’re super passionate about at Aware3. Mobile can be a blessing for your church, but it shouldn’t be a headache. When we launch an app, our goal is for it to go on auto-pilot as much as possible. We’re able to do that via integration we’ve built with many popular online ministry tools such as Vimeo, YouTube, iTunes, Church Community Builder, etc. Take your video for example. As long as you’re uploading your video into Vimeo and/or YouTube, we’ll automatically pull it from there so you’re not uploading twice. Same is true with your audio via iTunes.
I hope that helps. Happy to connect live if helpful.
Most of us have visited a new church for the first time. It’s a unique experience and one that many churches struggle to perfect. Thinking through each step that affects a newcomer can be tricky, especially if you have been part of the church for years and know everything there is to know.
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[…] An average church with a mobile app sees a 31.5% increase in their online giving. And an average gift of $185. (Aware3) […]
So, what features of a church app are most important? Sermons, of course… We have a mobile app (which has become necessary anyway). As I see it, a church app is specific to members, limited to fewer features, and a duplication of work (e.g., in addition to posting a sermon the web, it has to be added to the app.) that said, our members are not utilizing the website.
Ginny, You bring up some valid points. I will ask Tony to chime in. I agree, duplication of efforts is no fun at all.
Thanks for your comment, Ginny. You hit on a topic that we’re super passionate about at Aware3. Mobile can be a blessing for your church, but it shouldn’t be a headache. When we launch an app, our goal is for it to go on auto-pilot as much as possible. We’re able to do that via integration we’ve built with many popular online ministry tools such as Vimeo, YouTube, iTunes, Church Community Builder, etc. Take your video for example. As long as you’re uploading your video into Vimeo and/or YouTube, we’ll automatically pull it from there so you’re not uploading twice. Same is true with your audio via iTunes.
I hope that helps. Happy to connect live if helpful.