Comments on: ArrowHeights.org Church iPhone App

By: Chris Sharpe

Chris Sharpe — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:06:11 +0000

Great article Jeremy. Sorry for joining the conversation so late. I also saw your article on the Mars Hill app!

Here at Subsplash, the makers of the Church App, we are committed to making great software available for the presentation of the Gospel and have been blessed to develop apps for some incredible ministries such as Mars Hill, Billy Graham, Saddleback, Harvest, IHOP, and many more.

We have a platform catered to the presentation of the Gospel and offer reduced pricing for Christ-based ministries.

You can find out more about us here: http://www.thechurchapp.org

Thanks!

Chris

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:24:42 +0000

TruthCasting is building iPhone Apps for churches- they recently launched Apps for Willow Creek Association and North Coast Church in Vista, CA.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:19:42 +0000

We just got our church app — search "North Point Church". This is a church in Springfield Mo. It is brand new and we are working the bugs out of it — so you will see a few problems… but there is a lot of possibilities.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:41:23 +0000

NCC Iphone App Released Today! Download now using the link below: http://bit.ly/96Cl4o

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:35:21 +0000

Hey Jeremy,

There is an iPhone Web App built into every City Gates (http://www.citygates.org) website.

And you nailed it with the "7-9″ version of the iPhone/iTouch replacing the computer" prediction with the iPad coming out.

If you're ever looking for church-tech related interview or guest blogger for your blog, shoot me an email!

-Nathan

By: David Austin

David Austin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:49:39 +0000

check out the NETBible on line web environment see http://net.bible.org use the search to find your favorite passage in the translation you like or do a word study. See also webmaster tools at http://labs.bible.org You can get widgets likeverse of the day, facebook widget and the NETBible verse tagger that popups the verse when you mouse over a verse reference in a document on your web page..

By: Andy GIrton

Andy GIrton — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:01:16 +0000

http://www.truthcasting.com/iphone.asp

By: Mars Hill iPhone App | Jeremy Davidson

Mars Hill iPhone App | Jeremy Davidson — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:16:53 +0000

[...] the blog, and links to location service times and how to give. I blogged about iPhone apps befere here. Several church apps have shown up in the app store since then, but the new Mars Hill app takes the [...]

By: davey

davey — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:53:06 +0000

Thanks for the great ideas for the iPhone app! We are just putting the finishing touches on our web app for Westwinds and this article was a lot of help! You can see it at http://www.westwinds.info Thanks!

By: Scotty Ward

Scotty Ward — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:33:48 +0000

Jeremy, this is an excellent start. Our church web, admin, communications, and media teams began an email conversation on a NCCOGIC mobile and/or iPhone app, which includes many of the bullets you’ve listed, plus a few more.

Is a FORUM available for this type of discussion? I’d love to participate.

Blessings!
Minister Scotty Ward
New Community Church Of God In Christ
Waldorf, MD

Our discussion (so far) includes:
1. View the NCCOGIC Google Calendar
2. In conjunction with #1 above, offer the capability to synch with their mobile or Outlook calendar.
3. Opt-in/opt-out “tickler” or “reminder” notification of upcoming events found on the church’s Google calendar. The event reminder would popup each time the app is opened.
4. NCCOGIC Tweets (Could have two levels: first, tweets by NCCOGIC, and the second, what the NCCOGIC account sees: i.e. tweets of other COGIC churches or the saints’ activities)
5. View and play NCCOGIC Ustream archive videos (perhaps we should consider moving them to YouTube if they’re easier to “pull” using a YouTube API)
6. View and play live NCCOGIC webcasts
7. View and play pre-recorded NCCOGIC podcasts
8. Bible verse of the Day or focused Bible verse from the Pastor
9. Online articles (from Pastor, Chief of Staff, Auxiliary Heads)
10. Online announcements (from Admin, Communications; may be a restatement of #2 or #3 above)
11. Online ALERTS (prayer requests from Pastor, Chief). Not “opt” able
12. “Buttons” to locate specific data for interested auxiliary members (Youth, Music, Sewing Circle, etc.). This may be a restatement of #10 above.
13. Button to automatically connect to the m.newcommunity-cogic.org Mobile website, which may have some or all of the above (another desire of mine).
14. “Note to the Pastor” which will automatically forward a comment via email to the Pastor@ account
15. “Where’s My Pastor?” button (perhaps shows the GPS of Pastor’s phone on a map, such as the soon-to-be-released Google Latitude)
16. Upcoming Adult Sunday School lesson
17. “Who’s On Duty?”; could show Deacons, Ushers, Media, Sunday School teachers, Bible Band Teachers, or any other staff scheduled for upcoming events (another possible example: Team A and Team B assignments for Evangelistic Outreach, currently occurs using large numbers of emails among team members)
18. DONATE BUTTON for general fund or focused church campaigns (Seniya Fleming Fund, Earthquake relief, etc.)
19. NCCOGIC Forum button. Allow viewing and replying to NCCOGIC Public Discussion Forum (which don’t yet exist either) posts.
20. “Redeeming The Time” button. Allow them to read or submit constructive tips on finance, recycling, or other “social” help functions (think of it as a public – yet moderated – “graffiti wall” of helpful hints. Would probably require a moderator’s API of some sort.