If you’re like me, you’re planning to go to MinistryTECH and the Spring Church IT RoundTable in Oklahoma City the first week of April. Again if you’re like me, you haven’t registered yet. You probably have to figure out all of the travel and event costs, get the expenditure approved, make travel reservations, [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
I recently received an e-mail from a pastor who resigned from his congregation. The last straw for him was conflict over the design of the congregation’s web site. (That’s right, a well established congregation in a major denomination is just now building its first site in 2008.)
He wrote:
We had a large disagreement about the [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
It’s been quite some time since I gave an update on our experience with the wireless LAN bridge that connects our staff offices at Southcreek (SC) with our Central Campus (CC), 1.7 miles away. After putting the pair of 80 GHz radios from Bridgewave into service, I posted about how we were suffering from link [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
We never have before and probably never will again at Living Water, but today was the exception that proves the rule.
The storm began around 6:00 am. The snow came down in huge, wet flakes and accumulated rapidly. By 9:00 am the roads were a mess. My mom couldn’t get up the hill out of her [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Social networking and social media have been near the top of my mind since our senior pastor first announced our Internet campus initiative. I see social networking as the primary method of reaching our target audience – tech-savvy people who "live" online. The Internet campus will grow as participants share church-generated content with friends through [...]
Filed under: Internet campus, social networking | No Comments »
This morning I participated in the Kansas Republican presidential caucus. This is the first time in my 22 years of living here that Kansas has had a presidential primary or caucus. Even though John McCain already has an insurmountable lead in delegates, my fellow Republicans turned out in large numbers to vote for their preferred [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
We’re now in the middle of our Arena implementation. A couple of days ago we became concerned about certain aspects of our Arena performance. The thought occurred to me to contact Jon Edmiston to ask about his experience of Arena performance since he has a very large Arena installation. We found the main number for [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
It started with success stories from Andrew Mitry and Justin Moore. Now comes the announcement from Jon Edmiston that CCV has cut over to Asterisk. This morning I read an article in Network World about Asterisk. You know when Network World starts talking about it that it has emerged into the mainstream. So now I [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Yesterday was our IT Department 2nd annual off-site meeting. I decided not to call it a “retreat” because that term implies down time for spiritual nourishment. I do hope this meeting is spiritually nourishing, but that isn’t its primary purpose. We leave one help desk person behind to man the fort. [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
JP has the deets. I hope to see you in Oklahoma City on Saturday, April 5! Come early and check out Terrell Sanders’ MinistryTECH.
Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
