Our Resurrection web sites are currently hosted on a pair of dedicated servers at Vine Hosting in Philadelphia. (Vine Hosting is affiliated with Web Empowered Church, which has received major funding from the Methodist Foundation for Evangelism.) Vine Hosting’s data center is colocated with XO Communications in a massive carrier hotel at 401 N. Broad. [...]
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I bought gas at the Phillips 66 station in Parkville last night. The van tank holds approximately 23 gallons and it was nearly empty. Price was $3.799, so that’s an $85 fill up. Towards the end of the fill up, I noticed the flow slow and then stop exactly on $75. Apparently the pump had [...]
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The next time you have a large project that takes months to plan and execute, be sure to plan the celebration too. For the Arena implementation project we recently completed, we planned two celebration events. First, we invited all staff to an ice cream social in the Student Center on the afternoon of go live. [...]
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Attention all church IT people. The Fall 2008 Church IT RoundTable will be hosted by Trace Pupke at Seacoast Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (Charleston area) October 8-10! Seacoast is among the largest, fastest growing, and most innovative churches in the country. Don’t miss the opportunity to see and learn about this awesome church [...]
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We’ve been working with our Facilities Dept. since March on a new office suite for our pastors of caring ministries who handle the traditional "pastoral" functions such as sacraments, weddings, funerals, hospital visits, counseling, and worship leadership. Over the last 5 years this group outgrew one office and spilled over into two additional offices in [...]
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Yesterday was one of those days when I pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming that I’m on staff at Church of the Resurrection. We had 300+ church leaders from 70 area churches in to hear Bill Hybels and to promote the upcoming Leadership Summit. After a delicious hot breakfast, our senior pastor, Adam [...]
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Subtitle: "Another lesson in how difficult it is to communicate effectively" Regular readers of this blog know that Church of the Resurrection went live on the Arena church management system earlier this week. Travis (the project manager) and I knew that frequent and effective communication would be critical for the success of such a large [...]
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Chris Randolph, lead support tech for Arena joined us yesterday and today for the immediate post go-live support period. In accordance with our Shelby-Resurrection tradition, we had to take him for barbecue. (We also had to memorialize it with the traditional bad cell phone picture taken by a well-meaning waitress with an unsteady hand!) This [...]
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Calling all my KC-area church IT homies. Bill Hybels, senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, will be here at Resurrection next Thursday morning, May 15, for a breakfast meeting to talk about leadership and promote the Willow Creek Leadership Summit coming up in August. All church IT leaders are invited to come to the [...]
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Jason Gant, Director of Student Ministries (youth pastor) picks his toppings Brent Messick, Managing Executive Director of Operations (my boss) Debi Nixon, Executive Director of Adult Discipleship is EXCITED! Specially trained "Arena Facilitators" each received a fuzzy monkey to make it easy for their fellow staff to identify them Andrew Conard, Congregational Care Pastor [...]
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