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In July last year, I wrote a series on ‘Search for the ideal church database’, exploring a range of web-based member database solutions. After much deliberation, the member database my church decided on is Jethro…

Last week I wrote a post where I mentioned Church Community Builder and gave it a bad write-up, citing poor responses to my emails. I would like to publicly apologise to Church Community Builder. The problems I was experiencing were not due to Church Community Builder failing to reply, but my email server failing to [...]

I’ve now written out the requirements (and some optional extras) for the database for my church. I’d encourage you to do the same for your church. As I’ve been pondering requirements, I’ve also been contacting different database providers to arrange for demos/trials, and some of them have been contacting me with details of their databases. [...]

I’ve been doing some thinking about my church’s requirements for a database. There are some things that we need in a database. There are other things that we would like in a database, but can live without. Different churches have different needs, but I think that a lot of these requirements would be common to [...]

The search continues (for some context, read Part 1 and The List: 32 Church Database Solutions). Where am I up to in the search? I’ve signed up for some trials of church databases and it’s been an interesting (read: frustrating) but enlightening experience. Here’s what I’ve encountered: 1. I’m trying to get details on the [...]