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St. Patrick’s Day

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Much like Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated by people of all races and religions, but was actually started hundreds of years ago from… you guessed it… a saint. St. Patrick is probably the most widely recognized saint of Ireland. According to History.com, he held religious feasts each year on March 17, […]

Check Out Creation Swap!

Sometimes we’ll do a post about products, apps or websites that can be beneficial to your church. Today we’re doing one of those posts because we are big fans of a site called Creation Swap and we want to tell you all about it. It’s a website made for ministries with royalty-free stock photos, church bulletins, sermon […]

Forgiveness

I was inspired to write today’s post after reading an article about an evangelical pastor in Las Vegas, who, from the death of her son, found a way to lead dozens of other people to salvation through faith in Jesus. Forgiveness can be a hard pill to swallow because it demands humility and the grace […]

On the Hunt for Church Software?

Whether you are hoping to convert from one software system to another, or even trying church management software for the first time, you probably know by now that it takes a lot of planning and consideration before you and your church finally decide. Below is a list of what we consider to be the eight […]

Leonardo da Vinci

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” -Leonardo da Vinci As most of us know, Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist from the 13th and 14th centuries who created the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. This quote rings true of why Christianity is so important. […]

Let’s Meet!

Tomorrow is another really fun day for us. We will be at the Unleash 2011 Conference in Anderson, SC! We will have two of our sales guys there to give everyone more information on our products and to help you with any questions that you might have. If you aren’t attending Unleash, you can catch […]

The Shelby Team: Karen Bishop (Events Manager)

As the main writer for this blog site, I get to do a lot of cool things (and get to know a lot of interesting people). A few weeks ago when I sat down with our Arena Software Trainer, Ben Lane, I got to learn a lot more about his life inside and outside of Shelby. […]

Red Guitars & Weird Reactions

I’ve mentioned size and age conflicts that exist in every church, but what happens when you get crazy requests from members who are threatening to leave? My Sunday School teacher recently told our class about a couple that had left the church after complaining multiple times that there was a red guitar on stage. He […]

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