City Builders, that's what we call the people who partner with us to launch and oversee The City at their churches. They're amazing people who long to see the gospel lived out in the lives of their churches and believe that The City is one way they can enable that.
One of the best things about our annual Ideas to Impact conference is that we get to talk face-to-face with...
read more »At The City, we’re blessed by each and every church partner we have, but there are some that are more than just partners; they’re fans, and we love fans. These people see eye to eye with us; they light up when The City is a subject of conversation, they champion its use at their churches and with anyone who’ll give them space to talk, and they give us honest...
read more »While browsing the Ideas to Impact class list in search of interesting blog opportunities a few weeks ago, I ran across a class title that caught my attention, Implementing The City: a How-Not-To Guide. The description framed it as an examination of a church’s City launch, complete with all the foibles and choices they’d do over if they could. It sounded like such a...
read more »Today, City trainer Tim Zion gave an in-depth look at what good City administration looks like when your problems require more than any one feature can deliver. For those of us who couldn't attend, he offers a post to share some of his thoughts.
The City puts many powerful administrative tools at your disposal, and our helpdesk is full of...
read more »In a little under an hour, City trainer Rachel Stanley is leading an I2I class on the basics of good City communication. For everyone who can’t make it, she was kind enough to write up an overview of what it takes to really communicate well. Though it pays special attention to the tools of The City, the principles are worth consideration in virtually any setting.
The events of Ideas to Impact don’t officially begin until tomorrow, but that didn’t stop us from getting things moving today. While the trainers were busy at a full day of bootcamp, our City developers got to spend some time workshopping with developers from churches that are using our Admin API and webhooks to create their own tools that utilize City data.
After an...
Greetings from Orlando!
After a long day of flying, Tim Zion and I arrived at Disney World just a few hours ago. Several of our fellow City staffers have also arrived over the last couple of days, and the rest are slated to show up tomorrow.
Why are we here? Aside from the prospect of meeting Mickey and getting a bit of a tan—for those of us who can do that sort of thing&...
Church Management software has been around since before the PC—that’s more than 30 years. The Christian Church itself has been around for 2000. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of legacy there.
I'm sure you've run headfirst into legacy issues if you've spent much time in a church. In some cases, legacy binds us to what matters about what we believe,...
read more »We get feature requests all the time, but one thing that's been requested over and again from church after church is a more integrated way to facilitate event registration in The City. Today, with The City's new API capabilities, we're able to partner with other world-class products to provide ever-expanding functionality, including event registration.
We're...
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