Churches Continue to be Prime Targets for Social Engineering Scams and Email Attacks Recently at Enable Ministry Partners, we have witnessed a rash of compromised (hacked) email accounts amongst churches and some of our clients. Compromised accounts pose dangerous security risks to churches and other organizations. Once an account is compromised, attackers can send any…
After 22 years of providing technology services and consulting to churches, Enable Ministry Partners team members know only too well that annoying printer problems can be a major headache and source of frustration for church staff. Not only do balky printers disrupt workflow and productivity, but they can also pose a significant drain on resources…
It is 2023! The new year is upon us and now everyone is back at their desk, scrambling because they cannot remember where they stored last year’s mission trip report or how to save their New Year’s photos to the One Drive. Whether it has been a year since your initial staff training or you…
To the overworked worship pastor, exhausted preacher, and the ministry assistant up to her eyebrows in check-in sheets, this is for you. After spending the past three years in a full-time ministry position, I am aware of the amount of effort it takes to keep a well-oiled ministry department running effectively. Most of us know that…
How Can Church Management Software Mergers Pose a Threat to Your Church? In this article, we identify some of the recent major church management software (“ChMS”) company mergers and sales. We also share four key questions you can ask to analyze whether an individual sale or this pattern of acquisitions, sales, and mergers of ChMS…
During a recent conversation with some of our Enable staff, we discussed three common, nagging computer issues that church staff struggle with regularly. While relatively minor, these issues often cause frustrations and delays that are easily avoided. Below, we provide some quick, simple, and practical ways to help fix these common problems that may…
Because technology and the IT department are so intimately integrated into so many areas of a church’s operations, there is often a question of where the responsibility for particular policies or recommendations falls. Some believe that IT should drive specific policies because those policies are so closely intertwined with, and enabled by, technology solutions. Others…
There has been so much change over the last year and a half and so many shifts for people in their personal and public lives. Many people are excited to get back to their “old life” and attend things in person after missing that for so long, and some have taken this opportunity to visit…
To understate the matter considerably, What a year it has been! We have endured political strife, social and racial unrest, and a COVID-19 epidemic that has wrought massive changes in the way we worship, work, shop, engage, connect, educate our children, and do just about everything else in our daily life. Understandably, many are eager…
While some of us have hit our stride after a few weeks of working from home, others are still struggling to adjust to the new routine. Having small children at home can make this adjustment much more difficult – while we all love our kids, little ones are the best/worst distractions. We asked the parents…
