Tech Resources that (Are Supposed to)

Help the Church

By Pedro Trinidad

Lately I have been compiling a list of resources that can help pastors and church administrators to be more efficient. I get e-mails all the time from different ministries with resources that are supposed to lighten the load church leaders carry. Here are a few of the resources you may find helpful in your ministry. As a disclaimer, I have not used all of these tools - some just don't fit my current context - but they sound so cool that I hope to use them sometime in the future. Some are free. Some are not. So here we go -  Read More  
Scheduling Posts

By Angela Taipe

One of the biggest challenges that social media managers face is time. For most people, overseeing a Facebook page or Twitter account is just one of many tasks they have to accomplish on a daily basis. 
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Four Things You Need to Know

About Church IT Security

By Tony Vargas

Information Technology (IT) Security for Churches? So what is the big deal and what is it all about?      

While dealing with unlocked doors, open windows, vandalism and other such costly issues, many churches don't give much thought to the security of their technology. What this document is intended to do is to illustrate why IT Security should be at the top of the list along with the question of who has keys to the building. Each can be just as costly as the other.  Read More    

A Review of Eugene Peterson's Book

Under the Unpredictable Plant -

An Exploration in Vocational Holiness

By Mic Thurber

Some books I have read have a sort of timelessness about them. This is one of those books for me. It is also one of those books for which the Introduction (which I usually skim) is required reading because it not only sets up the premise of the book so well, it provides food for thought. There are no empty calories in this food. One example from the introduction -  Read More

Resources to be Given Away to Attendees    

Pastors who attend the CALLED Pastors convention will receive hundreds of dollars worth of ministry resources. Every pastor or chaplain who attends will receive the first printing of CALLED, a compendium of ministry written by some of Adventist's leading pastors. 

Every pastor will also receive a full release of Bible Study Factory, a customizable Adventist Bible study printing and editing software designed for small groups, pastors Bible classes and personal Bible studies.

The new book Best Practices for Women Clergy will be released at the convention and distributed to all women pastors and chaplains. 

In addition pastors will receive dozens of other resources at the Ministry Resource Hall with 150 ministry resource exhibitors. 

Registration for the convention is limited and is on a first come first served bases. The regular registration rate expires March 31. If you have a ministry resource that you need pastors to know about there are still a few exhibitor spaces available.

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Offering Appeal Videos: Two minute video clips are available for use during the offering appeals at church by visiting the NAD Stewardship Channel. You will meet leaders from different conferences in the Adventist church throughout the North American Division and the General Conference. You have the printed offering appeals, now you have them on video.

 

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