Apr 20, 2010
They're Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences (with all the BLOOPERS) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services...
Apr 12, 2009
We are pretty excited today to roll out the EpiphanyCMSLite. This gives churches the ability to get on line at a lower price point and start doing ministry. The system has the functionality of our current system, just that it is more templated, with fewer settings. For some, this will make things a lot easier to maintain. Sermon podcasting, calendar and events, photo album and media gallery, email messaging system, ecommerce for giving and bookstore and so much more. To take it a step ...
May 30, 2008
Ryan and I headed over to Starbucks to meet with Doug Anderson and Carter from the Nat'l Association of Vineyard Churches. Carter works in IT while Doug serves as Nat'l Coordinator. Doug was in typical Vineyard fare with hawaiian shirt and lucky charm. We pulled four chairs together over at "5 Bucks", where we talked about the Vineyard on-line, a little about Epiphany Systems and where this will go. With groups gathering on-line, it has some ecclesiastical implications (is that the right ...
Oct 15, 2007
Epiphany Systems was formed at the end of the dot-com era in 2000 as a sister company that handled our technology maintenance, hosting and technology licensing. Since that time we have prayed about pushing this ministry out, but the timing was too early. Two obvious reasons topped our list: The user base wasn’t ready or mature for the systems we wanted to deploy The technology was expensive to develop and we did not have the economies of scale to make it affordable to all churches. ...
Oct 12, 2007
Will the Internet create a new Reformation?By Drew Goodmanson and follow-up commentary by Chris Conant Pax Romana, the Gutenberg printing press, radio and the internet. God has used major technological and cultural shifts to bring sweeping changes in the church. As our culture moves increasingly online, the church is being radically altered by this powerful force. The internet has fostered several paradigm shifts in the church that we are only beginning to see. In time, we will see the full ...