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Building Software for the Church is More Awesome Than You Think

Tuesday
Dec 11, 2012

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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, and connects us to the valuable things… read more »

Who Is My (Neighbor) User? Part III

Tuesday
Oct 30, 2012

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UX inspired by the Good Samaritan: Getting Beyond Ourselves

Read the first post and second post in this series, about how talking to a client led to the idea of Jesus-as-software-designer.
 
And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’ Which of these three, do you… read more »

Who Is My (Neighbor) User? Part I

Monday
Oct 08, 2012

from The City
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UX inspired by the Good Samaritan

I met one of my users at our annual conference earlier this year. Her name is Kitty, she's in her sixties, and she's a Ministry Coordinator at a Catholic Church outside of Nashville. I spent a good chunk of time getting to know her, to understand her motivations and see what I could do to help her use The City in her church.

The whole time, I had the story… read more »

The First Year

Tuesday
Jun 05, 2012

Events
from The City
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This past month marks The City's first anniversary as part of ACS Technologies!

Last year at ACST's Ideas to Impact Conference, some of us were able to attend, but we were waiting for the acquisition to go through. It was an exciting time for us, but with all the typical secrecy around an acquisition, we had to keep a lid on things until everything was final. And of course the path forward… read more »

Seacoast Church shares how it finds success in The City

Thursday
Apr 07, 2011

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Every day we see example after example of how God is using The City in the hands of people like you to make an impact in the lives of people around the world. In a recent City Conversation with Greg Surratt from Seacoast Church in South Carolina, Greg shared about the increase in engagement Seacoast Church is seeing through The City. An excerpt from the Conversation is below.

Have you seen a… read more »

Hear how Apex Community Church finds success in The City

Thursday
Mar 31, 2011

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We love hearing about how churches are using The City and the impact they are seeing in their church body. In a recent talk with Drew Clemens from Apex Community Church in Ohio, Drew shared how Apex is seeing success with The City in their house churches. A transcript of our conversation is below.

How have you measured success in your roll-out of The City to your congregation?

“My focus is… read more »

Ariel’s Story — Growth from Pain

Wednesday
Sep 22, 2010

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When our pursuit of technology is gospel-driven and other-focused, it becomes worship in a very real sense. Of course, it's very tempting to pursue technology for the sake of our own comfort, to numb ourselves from feeling pain or need. But, as Ariel reminds us in this story, God uses our pain and discomfort to lead us to the only real source of healing, comfort, and joy there is:… read more »

Glendine’s Story — Praying in Faith

Wednesday
Sep 15, 2010

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A woman named Glendine recently shared a story on The City’s Story Center. It’s a remarkable story about how God miraculously healed her niece, Ariel, after she was in a terrible auto accident.

Many people in Glendine’s church had been praying for Ariel’s healing, and Glendine says she writes in the “hope that this story will serve as an encouragement to you, that your faith… read more »

Sharing the Gospel via Snail Mail

Friday
Sep 10, 2010

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The following story was shared with us through The City's Story Center. Apart from simply being a great story of redemption, it's also interesting to see how God used a pretty rudimentary method of communication to make Himself known.

Growing up, my brother Mark and I were very close. When I graduated from high school and went into the military, Mark began working with a… read more »