The sad tale of my laptop’s demise

June 17-19 Chuck Russell and I visited South Florida to benchmark the Internet Campuses of Christ Fellowship and Flamingo Road. When we arrived at the Palm Beach airport, I hit a snag totally of my own making. Somehow I forgot that I had carried my bag on to the plane whereas Chuck had checked his. [...]

Death of the land line

Eight years ago I hired a software developer in his low 20s, straight out of college. He had a cell phone but no land line at home. It was quite weird at the time, but was the start of a trend. The number of land lines in use in the US has dropped every year [...]

Life Church Internet Campus benchmarking day 2

This morning we went back to the LifeChurch Edmond campus to meet with Brandon Donaldson and Terry Storch.  When we arrived, Brandon showed us the new Digerati office and the Internet Campus studio. We then spent a couple of hours picking Brandon’s brain on everything from congregational care to budgeting to vision.  I’ll post details [...]

Life Church Internet Campus benchmarking day 1

I’m in Oklahoma City with Chuck Russell, Brian Slezak, and Andrew Conard to benchmark LifeChurch’s Internet Campus by observing them in action and by meeting with Terry Storch (Digerati Pastor) and Brandon Donaldson (Internet Campus Pastor). Our day began with attending the 10:00 service (“experience” in LifeChurch parlance) at the Edmond campus where the Global [...]

CIO or CTO?

Following up on Tony’s question: “is your role more of a CIO, or a CTO?” here is a post on point by Jason Hiner of Tech Republic.

Should a congregation use technology?

Pastor Andrew Conard of our congregational care team at Resurrection is in a series of posts about the “business side” of the church.  I started to compose a comment to his post on technology and ended up with a post of my own.  So here are my thoughts in response to Andrew. A local congregation [...]