Open Source Church

Royalty-Free Christian Graphics

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 05:46:25 +0000

I was doing a search today for some royalty-free Christian graphic when I ran across CreativeMYK. All I can say is wow! The quality of the designs is top notch with a large variety of options to choose from. From logos to bulletins, Adobe Illustrator to Adobe Photoshop and every ministry category you can think of to fit your needs. This is a group of designers that truly add to the Open Source Church helping to spread the gospel message.

CreativeMYK is…
Free Christian graphics for download shared by artists around the world. Networking with Christian artists through critique or discussion.

Free Business Card Maker

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:27:40 +0000

Design business cards for free at Businesscardstar
It’s free to design and print PDFs of your business cards! Layouts work with pre-cut business card paper, and you can print 8 or 10 cards per page. You can print at home using business card paper, or order printed versions of your cards when you’re ready. Start making your card now or click here to view the Demo Video of how BusinessCardStar works.

Matthew West – The Motions

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:16:49 +0000

Sendn – Email Newsletter Management

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:37:53 +0000

Sendn is an email marketing service designed to help members create and deliver their own newletters. For only $5 they provide a impressive feature set to handle your email lists with numberous templates. They handle unlimited number of subscribers, lists, forms, link tracking, survey tracking, and much more. Take a detailed tour of what Sendn offers.

Ubikwiti – Free Accounting for small ministries

admin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:21:31 +0000

Ubikwiti is a online accounting software that offers 2 different free versions of their account package. When reading this post keep in mind that this recommended for small ministries. The personal expense manager is basic expense manager that adds the unique option to integrate into your Facebook profile. Options include multiple bank accounts, record money-in and money-out, expense categories and reporting tools. The other version is for one user SMB that provides additional features not found in the expense tracker. The best way to describe the service would be something similar to Quickbooks. Take all the features of the personal expense manager and add invoicing, service tracking, vendor billing and more detailed reporting tools the export to PDF. They do seem to offer a professional version which is $5 per person per company per month which is very competitive with other services. They are working on a SAAS (Software as a Service) model so it is meant to be customizable to your needs. See the video below for a quick intro to the service.

Free Brushes, Flash and Vector files

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:49:32 +0000

Brusheezy A place for artists to download and vote for the best custom Photoshop Brushes and photoshop patterns on the internet!

Vecteezy is an index of Free Vector Graphics available for download by some of the best artists around the world.

Flasheezy is your one stop shop to download free flash files and tutorials.

Free Wordpress Themes

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:38:37 +0000

2400 Free Wordpress Themes
ImpreZZ – Free Wordpress theme

List of Free Icon Sets

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:43:45 +0000

15,000+ high quality Free Icons
1000+ Classic Icons for Free Download
43 Creative Examples Of High Quality Free Icon Sets
50 Free High-Quality Icon Sets.
35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets
40 Professional Icon Sets For Free Download
20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets
55 Free High Quality Icon Sets
18 Graphs: A Free Icon Set

All of the sets are beautiful and free.

Rex the Dog

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:32:53 +0000

Came across this today and well its just funny and we all need a laugh.

Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.

Tatango

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:57:43 +0000

Have you ever wanted to send a message to group but didn’t have time to contact everyone? Tatango is a new mobile text and voice messaging service that allows to send messages to your groups. For churches and ministries this service will have a number of uses. One small example would be your activities are getting canceled because of the weather. With your group started you can log into your Tatango account and send out a voice or text message letting everyone know class will be canceled tonight. Not only that but this update has also been posted to my Facebook and Twitter profiles for others to see.

I opened a account to try out this new service. I have one word to describe how to use the service “simply”. First I tried to send out a voice message. In just 3 steps I was able to click the Call Me button; in seconds Tatango called me and asked me to record my message. Options were limited to re-record or accept. After accepting you are given a screen that allows you post to Facebook, Twitter and Myspace profiles along with a link to the actual message in your Tatango profile. Only seconds later I got my message. Since I was using the free version I had to listen to a very short message about eBay. I actually didn’t find the message invasive more like informative. After the short ad I got my message. Sending a text was equally as easy and the text ad was small placed under my message.

As I stated above this service is free with ads but they do have a PRO paid version that removes advertising. Prices are as low as $5 per month to $99 per month with varying levels of service. We have a special 10% discount coupon by using “tango”.

So what does this mean for small groups, ministries and churches? A few ideas come to mind; daily/weekly devotionals. Daily Bible reading messages is something I have personally been thinking about lately. A mid-week reminder about this week’s sermon. Reminders or changes for upcoming events. Really the possibles are endless but one thing is for sure this technology will allow us to better communicate to groups of people to help further the gospel message. Amen

Additional services: Church Texting Manager