Tracks & Sessions

Fellowship One Health Check-up : Interpreting your Personalized Account Review

Do you ever wonder if you are using Fellowship One to it's fullest potential? Suzee Bolton, Customer Care Specialist will demonstrate how to maximize Fellowship One through a Personalized Account Review. She will show you the best resources to use in order to understand how you can better utilize Fellowship One.

Regional User Groups : Creating, Leading, and Growing a Fellowship One RUG

Regional User Groups (RUGs) provide a way for you to share information and experiences with other Fellowship One Users in a particular area of the country. Join Suzee as she shows you how you can connect and be supported by other Fellowship One users. She will take you through a model of what a RUG meeting embodies and how you can lead or just become involved and why you even want to!

Increasing Awareness of F1 Strategy : Where we're headed the next few years

Your Vision, Our Mission, One Solution. Join Curtis Harris, Director of Product Strategy as he reveals how Fellowship One will accelerate in the Church market place in the next three years. He will unveil how your vision combined with our product development will provide the one solution that brings you closer to what matters most, reaching people for Christ.

Event Management : Making the Most of a Ministry Opportunity

Whether you are setting up a block party, vacation Bible school or a women's retreat you can use Fellowship One to create ministry opportunities in your church and community. Join Patrick as he shows you the best operational tools to minister to event attendees.

Activity Configuration : Student Ministries

Reaching Students is critical to the next generation of Christians. Join Mark as he shows you how to take the stress out of creating activities so you can spend the time you need ministering to the Student! Mark will also be conducting a hands on lab on this subject; check your schedule for time and location.

Activity Configuration : Mission Trips

Go out into the world…the mission field. We are all called to witness to the lost. That should be where you are spending your time, not setting up a Mission Trip. Mark will teach you to how to efficiently set up a Mission Trip activity in Fellowship One easing your administration, so you can spend your time reaching the World for Christ. Mark will also be conducting a hands on training lab on this subject; check your schedule for time and location.

Vacation Bible School : Fellowship One Best Practices

Ever feel lost trying to create a VBS activity in Fellowship One? In this session, Jeff will demonstrate how to create basic VBS activities and how to use forms to facilitate online event registrations. Jeff will also be conducting a hands on training lab that will give you experience creating an activity and assigning kids and volunteers to breakout groups and RLC's. Check your schedule for time and location.

Fellowship One Check-in : Creative and Innovative uses

Do you want to advance the Check-in system from a glorified label maker to a strategic partner? Matt will examine some best practices that will help you extend Check-in beyond the nursery and into youth, adult Bible studies, volunteers, and any other situation where your people are involved. It's not about who was there, it's about who wasn't!

Activity Configuration : Semester-based Classes

Creating a semester based activity like a women's bible study can be overwhelming but Jeff will help you become an expert at creating activity configurations in Fellowship One. This session is complimented with a hands on training lab so you can have a complete experience in Activity Configuration.

Event Registration : Closed Loop Process

Don't let your attendees fall through the cracks! Join Scott Lowrie, Director of Product Management as he defines workflow processes through Fellowship One's rich features. He will provide best practices for new members, new from Check In Households and closing the back door. This presentation will energize you to connect with your attendees to the fullest potential.

Fellowship One Check-in : Discovering the Advanced Features

Join Curtis Harris, Director of Product Strategy as he demonstrates the latest advancements and capabilities of Fellowship One's Check-in system. Discover how the new features and functionality will ease and enhance your Check-in processes.

Fellowship One Check-in : Practical Steps to Enhance Your Ministry

Your Check-in system is usually the first impression that someone has of your church. If your church was graded based on how you check in children and adults, what would your grade be? David Morrison of Prestonwood Church will discuss different aspects of the Fellowship One Check-in system on a mass scale and show you some great ideas and tips for getting an A+!

Small Groups : Infrastructure for a Successful Small Groups Ministry

As iron sharpens iron, Jeff Pelletier and Scott Lowrie will share with you how to create effective Small Group ministries. Jeff will discuss the impact that Small Groups have on churches while Scott will demonstrate the new features and functionality being developed in this area through Fellowship One.

Church Plants : Capturing the right data the right way

Seminary prepared you for teaching the Bible but did they teach you the infrastructure needed to run a church? Errol Coner, ordained pastor and Sales Manager for Fellowship Technologies will help you create a structure that eliminates organizational and communication gridlock, which often frustrates your staff and volunteers. His focus will be on showing you the common mistakes church planters can make capturing data.

Assimilation : Using Fellowship One to track assimilation

Do you ever wonder if your visitors are committing their lives to Christ? Join Jeremy as he helps you understand the process in Fellowship One that can help you measure your full time followers of Christ. See what reports you can use and how contacts, assignments, attendance and giving allow you to measure your assimilation process.

Communication Tools: Effective communication with Fellowship One

How do I communicate with my church using Fellowship One? Learn about the different communication tools in Fellowship One. Understand the process for setting up church wide emails and communicating to ministry specific groups. Learn about creating a church communication policy to avoid over-communicating to an information overloaded society.

Contact Management : Fellowship One Best Practices

Contacts come in many different forms from first time visitor cards, prayer request cards, communication cards, bulletins, to phone contacts. Each of these contacts has to be handled in a different way. Many of them have multiple destinations that need to be seamlessly processed by different staff members. Matt will illustrate the best practices for organizing your contact forms and contact items to provide a work flow that will meet your organizational goals.

Care Ministries : Using Fellowship One to track visitations

Hospital visitation is an opportunity for church staff and key volunteers to make a lasting impact on their congregation. Join Marie as she shows you how these care ministries can track individuals in the hospital in such a way that notes can be shared between key volunteer chaplains and church staff overseeing the ministry.

Multi-Campus : Utilizing Fellowship for Multi-Site / Multi-Campus

Multi- Campus does not have to mean multi-headaches! Jeff Rice has assisted many top 100 churches in the implementation process of multi-campus outreach. Jeff will walk you through the various opportunities and challenges of contact management and workflow in Fellowship One. Jeff will also be conducting a hands on training lab on this topic; check your schedule for time and location.

Effective Communication: Engaging your Congregation with Voice Messaging

Here's the Church…Here's the Steeple…Open the Doors and Engage the People. Join Mike Euliss as he shows you how to effectively communicate with your attendees with as little effort as a single phone call. Utilizing Fellowship One and PhoneTree to make the most of the communication process!

Conference Planning : Using Fellowship One for a church conference

Come hear how we used Fellowship One to aid us in holding Dynamic Church 08. Learn how we decided to configure our activities, what we determined we had to know from each registrant and how we tracked that information. Learn how we used Fellowship One to help us manage our volunteers for the conference and how we decided to use Check-in for real-time attendance tracking.

People Reporting : Reviewing the best people related reports

Which visitors are now attendees? Which attendees are now members? Should I use a contact item, attendance, or an individual attribute to track first time visitors? In this session, Brian will discuss the best strategy for tracking your people and which reports to use to maximize your assimilation process.

Group Email : Attractive and Effective Communication

Communicating with class through group email makes a difference. Church attendees live in a world of communication via email and the web. They are used to seeing information and making decisions at a time that is best for them. Effective email communication is one solid way to reach them. Good communication involves targeting the right audience with a well articulated message in an attractive formatted email. Good attendee relations involve respecting their privacy and effectively handling their request to subscribe or unsubscribe. This presentation equips the audience to implement more effective attendee communications in their church.

“Image Strategy” - Harnessing the Full Power of Fellowship One 

Getting your data organized is critical to speaking with one voice across the organization. Learn how connecting the images of your members to the data builds your sense of community faster, improves security and engages your leaders, staff and volunteers faster. Join us for an open and interactive discussion on how Fellowship users are implementing an “image strategy” to harness the full power of the software to improve their organization’s effectiveness.

Empowering Leaders: Growing Volunteers into Leaders

How can we empower leaders instead of recruit volunteers? Everyone is born to lead at some level, but not everyone is a born leader. The obvious issue that we contend with in the church today is getting leaders to step forward and commit. Mark will speak to the many reasons why volunteers tend to vanish as the requirements and tasks become more time consuming and provide insight on how to make and empower leaders instead of just finding volunteers.

Leveraging Fellowship One Giftedness : Integrating giftedness and skill assessment programs with Fellowship One

Join Lisa and Rick as they demonstrate Giftedness tracking in Fellowship One. Gain a general understanding of how tracking giftedness can help match volunteers to jobs they will be happy to perform. When people are passionate about their job they perform better, show joy and engage others. Find out how you can use giftedness tracking to create passionate volunteers.

But we don't the space! Creating a Volunteer Central room

It so important to treat your volunteers like they are a part of your team and what better way to do that than to have a central meeting location? You might think you don't have enough space but time and time again we have seen that dedicated space makes dedicated volunteers.

Navigating the Volunteer Pipeline : Using Fellowship One to recruit, assess, and staff volunteers

It begins with a member trying to find out a little more about the volunteer opportunities available and ends with a volunteer staffing assignment. In this session examine every stage of the volunteer pipeline including how to collect the volunteer interest, how to ensure this information is forwarded to the right people, how automated background checks work, and ultimately how people are established as part of your volunteer force in Fellowship One.

Educating Volunteers: Effective Adult Training Techniques

You have an effective tool for church management in Fellowship One, but how do you transfer the knowledge of how to use it to your volunteers? Teaching adults can be tricky. Join Bill in this examination of the ways adults learn and how you can be an effective trainer for your church.

Background Checks Volunteers and Staff: The Why and the How

Join the President and CEO of SecureSearch (an Integrated Solution Provider and Partner), Steve Durie, as he reviews all the options churches have when looking into protecting the children and youth in their care. He will discuss the differences between types of searches and the pro's and con's of each. He will cover what level of diligence is necessary for volunteers and staff member. Steve will include information on how the integrated process works, consent forms, compliance to Federal laws, insurance trends, adverse action policies, along with statistics of violent offenders.

Check Security : Discuss check fraud and preventative measures

Check fraud is one of the fastest growing financial crimes in America, growing at 25% per year. Join Melba as she discusses the risk of check fraud in the marketplace today, and what you can do to protect your church. Develop an understanding of overt and covert security features for your checks and how to layer them on the product to ensure adequate protection. Learn more about "Uncompromised Check Solutions", a check program that was built to meet all of your check security needs.

Financial Reporting : Reviewing the best finance related reports

With so many report options it can sometimes be confusing on what is the best report to run for different situations. Brian will guide you through the best reporting choices for giving. This will include batch auditing, pledge drives, contribution statements and many more. He will also discuss how to view new online contributors, upcoming contributions for date range, pending transactions that have been processed through the payment gateway verses those that have been posted to your merchant account

Reconciling General Ledger with Fellowship One : Fellowship One Best Practices

Churches are always seeking to improve efficiency and lower costs throughout their organization. This is particularly true in the finance department, where timing is critical when handling the data entry and deposit of financial contributions made to the church. This session will discuss the best practices of church finance as it relates to Fellowship One.

Contributions Processing : Fellowship One Best Practices

During this session, Mark will discuss best practices that make processing contributions more efficient and accurate. Learn how to sort contributions, process batches, and ergonomically configure your desktop to make the most of your contributions processing time.

Pledge Drives : Fellowship One Best Practices

Join Lance Dacy, Director of Customer Support as he explores some creative solutions to Pledge Drives in Fellowship One. Lance will address the common pitfalls and the creative ways to work around those issues. He will address reporting and how to analyze your data so you can get the most out of your Pledge Drive in 2008.

Customizing Contribution Statements : How to customize your statements with XSLT

Would you like to replace your church logo on contributions statements with the special logo you had created for a pledge drive? Are you interested in changing the order of the data displayed on contribution statements? Would you like to see non-cash items but do not want the stated value displayed? Is it possible to take an existing statement style and modify the format to fit pre-printed letter head? Jeff will answer these questions using the flexibility of XSLT.

Online Giving : Fellowship One Best Practices

Do you wish you could offer online giving but are hesitant to rollout the service to your congregation? Dave Moore, CFO of Granger Community Church will show you the power of online giving and how it can impact your church. Learn how to use reports to show your leadership team the power of giving schedules to affect the bottom line. Learn methods to address arguments against online giving and how to engage your leadership team to promote scheduled giving. Dave will share the lessons Granger learned while introducing this powerful tool to the church.

Online Payment Processing : Fellowship One Best Practices

Be ahead of the game when it is time to setup your Fellowship One Payment Gateway! This class will answer the most common questions that arise during the setup process as well as highlight potential roadblocks along the way. Whether you are processing Online Payments through an outside company, or you have never worked with Online Payments before, this class is instrumental in assuring a smooth Fellowship One Payment Gateway setup.

Future of Fellowship One Contributions : Integrating Remote Deposit Capture

Curtis Simmons will introduce a new business partner, Profit Stars, that will provide remote deposit capture services to churches. He will outline the details of the partnership, how to get started, and the roadmap for full integration with Fellowship One.

Outreach Fund Raising : Leveraging Fellowship One and other tools for capital campaigns

Many churches, pastors and committees enter the building process overwhelmed and under prepared. Learn from Lamar and Jeff as they walk you through the process on how Fellowship One can make your capital campaign a little less "paign-ful!" Hear what works and what hasn't for an outreach ministry that needs to raise anywhere from $1,000 to a cool million!

Fellowship One Implementation : Hindsight is 20/20

Implementation for any new system can be stressful because no one likes change. Since it is easier to identify mistakes after they are made, we will offer tips and lessons learned in hindsight to make data transition a little smoother. We will also discuss how our Membership Services department adapted to the change in regards to data entry needs of the church and the difference this made in overall ministry of the church.

Pastoral Perspective on IT: What Sheep Wish

Michael J Sanicola serves spiritual communities and professional organizations as a consultant and advisor on matters of communication between leaders and followers. His insights about the relationship dynamics between clergy and laity are progressive. Mike believes that ‘good ole' time’ religion is falling short in reaching the multitudes numerically but equally important, dimensionally. Michael teaches how to improve communication within the spiritual communities of the 21st Century by incorporating new technology. A graduate of Florida Atlantic University (Psychology) and a former Christian missionary for nearly 20 years, Michael knows how to create group synergy.

Managing Data : Fellowship One Best Practices

Is your church getting the most out of your data? Are you sure you are utilizing Fellowship One in the most efficient and consistent manner? It all comes down to what you are putting into your database and how it is being entered. In this session, Julanne will discuss various important topics such as data integrity, data security, proper training for staff and data entry time management.

Data Integrity : Fellowship One Best Practices

Why is Data Integrity important? What can you do to protect the data that comes into Fellowship One to ensure the best possible information exists? Join Marie as she discusses all the ways you can employ to ensure your data is clean and accurate. Marie will also be teaching this concept a hands on training lab at 3:00 P.M. on Friday.

Fellowship One Champion : Cross Functional Teams

When each ministry functions as its own separate entity with little or no regard for the larger entity (the church) as a whole, you have a group of silos rather than a unified team. Patrick Lencioni's book Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars proposes that one way to destroy silos is to build cross functional or in the case of churches cross ministry teams. The Fellowship One Champion Team and the Data Integrity Teams have completely different areas of focus but both teams work together to bridge the gap between ministries and bring a common approach to Fellowship One. Learn how to implement cross ministry teams at your church in this exciting session.

Fellowship One Champion : Connections through Fellowship One

Join Kim as she covers the diverse topics of the connections that can be fostered through Fellowship One. Learn how users can extract data for presentations and measurements to leadership. Learn how Fellowship One technology in the church is seamless in moving, connecting and communicating with its community. Kim will be discussing systems of connection and process using Fellowship One and how its implementation has affected her church. Discover how to use reporting to show the big picture and create connection discussions in your church. Find out how you can lead change by becoming a change agent at your church who is adept at showing hard data. Understand how numbers are only important when we remember that numbers represent the people we want to connect with and to the life of the church. See real data and discuss how you can use these same tools and methods at your church.

Business Cycles of Church Ministry : People, Process, and Technology

One of Fellowship Technologies' key philosophies that lead to successful implementation of Fellowship One in churches is the right balance among People, Technology and Process. You can have great people and good technology, but if processes are weak then the others become weak. Jeff will offer direction for the planning of the business cycle for church ministry in order to create replicable, solid processes. Learn how well executed, proactive planning and documentation can create these essential processes.

Reporting Solutions : Determining the best method to find what you're looking for

So you have volumes of data in Fellowship One, now how is the best way to report on that data. Which solution should I use for operational reports, contribution statements or a trending report for the executive pastor. Rick will guide you though many reporting scenarios and how you might solve each of them with Fellowship One.

Ministry Reporting : Reviewing the best ministry related reports

With so many report options it can sometimes be confusing on what is the best report to run for different situations. Brian will guide you through the best reporting choices for giving, ministry, process, outreach, involvement and volunteering.

Fellowship One Champion : Full Process of Implementation

Are you considering purchasing Fellowship One or upgrading your current version? What are some things you should consider during the implementation process? Listen to Crystal discuss the implementation process form a large church perspective and learn processes that worked for her church while implementing Fellowship One.

Reporting Solutions : What your Pastor needs to know... but doesn't know to ask

Pastors and church leadership need information in order to make decisions. In many cases, they don't ask for information because they don't know what information is available. Learn how you as a Fellowship One user or administrator can help your leadership by feeding them information. Join Bob as he shares how to dig deep into the details, summarize the information and produce meaningful reports that leaders can absorb quickly.

Fellowship One Champion : Super Team

A panel of stakeholders at Granger Community Church discuss the implementation of their Super Team strategy. This interactive conversation will reveal how this team of advocates help manage Fellowship One across multiple departments to establish trust, maintain data integrity and improve church health.

Fellowship One Champion : Best Practices

How can you get your staff excited and involved in implementing Fellowship One functionality to its full potential? Gary offers some great advice as he shares all the ways you can encourage your staff to adopt Fellowship One.

Fellowship One Implementation : Strategic Planning for Fellowship One

What are the best strategies for implementing Fellowship One in a short period of time? What strategic plans should be formulated? Who should be in charge of the implementation process? What does implementation involve anyway? Join Katie as she answers these questions and many others. Learn how a slow roll-out to a select few ministries can foster church-wide adoption. Discover methods for helping your church adapt to this huge change and how to see Fellowship One as a positive tool for the purpose of extending God's kingdom.

Fellowship One Champion : Solving Problems with Fellowship One

What are some ways you can encourage a wider adoption of Fellowship One at your church? Join Beky as she discusses how to win over stubborn or lagging departments through problem solving that comes from utilizing Fellowship One on a daily basis. Hear real-world examples of how Fellowship One has taken Sandals Church to next level of efficient and effective ministry. Learn how group trainings and manuals will empower your staff and volunteers in their use of Fellowship One.

LifeChurch.tv – The here and now, and the future.

LifeChurch.tv is known for continually pushing the proverbial technology envelope. A few things that have come out of the digerati team at LifeChurch.tv include a fully interactive Internet church campus, Second Life, as well as YouVersion.com. Join Terry as he pulls the veil back, and exposes the white board on these projects and many others that are currently in the works.

Customizing WebLink : Using CSS to change the style and behavior of WebLink

Ever look at other Fellowship One customer's web sites and wonder how they made their Weblink pages look so great? Tara will demonstrate how to modify your style sheet to effectively change the way WebLink appears on your website. Learn basic ways to change the fonts and colors to make WebLink look like your website. Learn more advanced tricks like how to add a repeating background image as well.

Social Networking Trends : Joe Suh, Found of MyChurch.org

Social networking has been a hot trend on the Internet since 2004. The networks have evolved from simple friend list tools to becoming platforms and social operating systems. The industry is trending towards true interoperability and data portability between social networks. Churches have started taking advantage of social networking sites for communication and outreach purposes. Joe will highlight some case studies of churches on MySpace and Facebook. He will offer best practice suggestions while exploring the vast potential of churches looking to connect and engage their congregation as this technology continues to innovate. He will also discuss whether or not there will be a day when a church has an online community for its members that integrates and shares data with a church management system for its administrators.

Broadband Check-in : Using Check-in at a non-permanent facility

Does your church meet in a facility with no or unreliable Internet access? Does the lack of Internet access make using Fellowship One Check-in a distant dream? The advent of Broadband technologies will open you eyes to new possibilities for using Check-in even when you thought you couldn't. Join John as he introduces you to Broadband-based check-in and learn how it can allow your church to take advantage of real-time attendance tracking.

Check-in Stations: How to properly deploy and secure them

Learn how to efficiently deploy and secure a large number of check-in stations. Use Active Directory and Group Policy to deploy, secure, and maintain a consistent user experience for all of your check-in stations.

The Direction of Content Management at Fellowship Technologies

Sneak peek: Content Management comes to Fellowship Technologies! Join Tim as he provides a sneak peek into how you can provide dynamic changes to your church web site that are incredibly integrated with Fellowship One.

Future of Fellowship One API : Moving to a RESTful architecture

Sneak peek: RESTful API comes to Fellowship Technologies. Come see the cool new RESTful API that your developers can use to get Fellowship One data into your custom applications.

360Connected Church: Web 2.0 Tools for Church Leaders Passionate About Connecting People

Come hear how Church leaders who are passionate about building relationships have deployed some of the best Web 2.0 tools available. You?ve got F1 software for managing and reporting, now see how churches use 360Connected Church to build relationships, assimilate visitors, deliver content, register for events and connect God?s people.

Tony Ferraro
360Hubs

Social Media : 10 New Media Values Your Ministry Needs

Using the power behind web-based technologies for your ministry means more than utilizing a great CMS and putting up a slick website. The web has evolved. Come see how Web 2.0 allows communication to take place in new and unrestricted ways. More importantly, learn how the concepts that drive these technologies have replaced formerly accepted value systems across most social institutions. Learn how the social web displays an entirely new set of characteristics with the capability to give your ministry a cultural relevance not found any other way. Discover why an understanding of the new media's disruptive value system is critical for church staff members, particularly so if ministry is to be relevant to the next generation.

Social Media : 10 New Media Values Your Ministry Needs

Using the power behind web-based technologies for your ministry means more than utilizing a great CMS and putting up a slick website. The web has evolved. Come see how Web 2.0 allows communication to take place in new and unrestricted ways. More importantly, learn how the concepts that drive these technologies have replaced formerly accepted value systems across most social institutions. Learn how the social web displays an entirely new set of characteristics with the capability to give your ministry a cultural relevance not found any other way. Discover why an understanding of the new media's disruptive value system is critical for church staff members, particularly so if ministry is to be relevant to the next generation.

Inside FT : Performance montoring from the church to our data center

Come and see one of the ways in which Fellowship Technologies is gaining visibility into how Fellowship One is being utilized at the Church. Coradiant is one tool that is helping us help you. Daniel will show how Coradiant allows the IT and Network team to analyze trends and patterns in the data center like never before.

Network Infrastructure Guidance

Join Daniel as he illustrates the intermediate concepts necessary to operate and maintain network infrastructures. Basic knowledge of network concepts are recommended.

WebLink Integration : Leveraging the power of Fellowship One Data Exchange

Integrating Fellowship One Weblink to your existing website can be as simple as adding one line of Javascript or as complex as calling Data Exchange, Fellowship One's XML-based API. The method you choose will be based on your specific needs, design goals and skill level. This session will review the pros and cons of the alternative approaches, important design considerations and best practices and review some real world examples.