👨‍💻ONLINE COMMUNITY NIGHT (DE 🇩🇪)🎙️

Our discord server https://digital.icf.church/community is going to have another Community Night today at 8 pm (CEST) 🥳

The topic will be "Storage and Recording". Gian from the IT Team in Zurich will present the setup in ICF Zurich and show you how we store all the production data with Synology storage servers and how they handle 800TB of data 🤯

After that, there is time for a Q&A.
You don't want to miss that ✌️

👉 Join here

PS.: This time it is only in German. If you are interested in joining the next time as an English speaking person, please contact @benniamann 🙏🏼

🎫 THE CHECK-IN FOR LARGE EVENTS - WITH ELVANTO INTEGRATION 🖨

When it comes to big events, ticketing and check-in is often a technical and administrative challenge.

Florian Falk and his team have developed a solution that is already in use at ICF Rhein-Main & ICF Munich (Amore, Christmas etc.).

✅ Import tickets from Elvanto events
✅ Check-In/Check-Out with QR code
✅ Printing, Reporting
and much more

👉 Download the description
👉 Watch a short product video

Are you planning your next ICF event and interested in this software solution? Feel free to contact @flohfalk for more ✌️

Ps.: Our annual ICF Conference is soon. This year we will have a Church Training where we also talk about the Digital solutions @ ICF. Are you already signed up? 😉

GOOGLE ANALYTICS - WE NEED YOUR HELP 🙏🤝

For our new website project, we want to understand the online ICF Movement better. For this, it would be great if we had analytics active everywhere.

How can you help?

👉 Activate Google Analytics and send us a release to "analytics@icf.church" (How to here)
👉 Give us a quick GO to enable Google Analytics for you.
👉 Send @benniamann the contact details of your web admin person

Thanks for the support! This helps us a lot

Greets Benni

WE ARE CELEBRATING A NEW EQUIP UPDATE ❤️🎉

We did it again! We have published a major update of EQUIP - We have now Favourites!

You can now:

🤝 Save your favourite resources as favourites
🙌 See an overview of your favourites in your profile at any time
✌️ You can filter & sort your favourites
👏 You can recognise your favourites anywhere on EQUIP by the ❤️

Test the new feature
👉 https://icf.church/equip

Have fun 🎉
Your Digital Team

🚀 Artificial Intelligence x ICF - Let's explore the world of AI together! 🌍

Leo invites you to discover the potential of AI. 🧠 AI can make our work more efficient and help us spread the best messages in a modern way.

As ICF, we have been working on this topic for a few months now and we are testing new tools and how we can use them in the church on a weekly basis in Zurich. We want to take you with us!

📨 Regular videos and tutorials are waiting for you! 🎥

Join the new ICF x AI Telegram Channel now:
https://t.me/+44BV2Hw0WY0xNjQ0 🛎️

PS.: The video took us about 2-3min to dubb it from German to English 😉Not perfect but its getting better and better

🦉 HUULO UPDATES 💡

You remember the Event & Camp App "huulo.io". Simon Egli and his team from ICF Zurich were able to implement some major technical updates in the last few months and as a result, there were also some awesome new features 🤩

🎉 Offline mode (your app can now be accessed offline)
🎉 Unsplash integration for quick integration of images
🎉 Post/News module for a news feed
🎉 Custom Pages - create your own pages now flexible
🎉 Flexible Menu - Define now how your app menu should look like
and much more.

You would like to use Huulo for your next ICF event or camp. Contact @simonegli - There is at least 50% discount for ICFs. We used it already for the conference, experience, pastors event and icf camps 🙌

Ps.: There are rumors that "Push Notifications" may be available soon - We are excited.

🎧 LIVEVOICE - TRANSLATION LOCALLY AND ONLINE 📱

Today we would like to introduce LiveVoice. With LiveVoice you can offer simultaneous translations via app at events and celebrations. It works as a practical self-service tool. 🤩

In Zurich we have been working with it for a long time and are also friends with the team - they are in a church themselves.

We can only highly recommend it! 🤝

Do you want to test Livevoice? You can create an account for free and test it with up to 3 listeners for free.

👉 https://livevoice.io/en/churches

If you want to buy it, we have an ICF Special Deal. With the code "ICF10" you get 10% discount.

🤯 ICF x AI - Tipps, Teachings & News 💡

AI is on everyone's lips and as you may have noticed, we at ICF are also into it.☺️

We have already recorded some teachings and regularly post exciting news and tools in a separate channel. ✌️

🤩Automatic subtitles
🤩Improve audio quality
🤩Automatically create slides
🤩Create YoutTube short videos
🤩Generate graphics
and much more ...
Are you already using an AI tool?

Feel free to check out our channel: https://t.me/+LW5HiZtud6UzYzM8

Your ICF Digital Team

🎨 IMPORTANT CHANGE FOR CANVA ⚠️

As of September 2023, there are some important changes to CANVA.
We have to kick all users out of our main account and every ICF has to create their own account!

If you use Canva, you need to take action this August.

👉 Please forward this to your team, check your mail and the FAQ / Howto attached below.

Thank you for your help.

Stay blessed,
Benni & Iven

🎨 REMINDER FOR CANVA CHANGE ⚠️

We are still in the middle of the change and not everyone has contacted us yet. Please check the following steps for your ICF

1. Register your own Canva team (as NGO - Non-profit)
2. Contact us (movement@icf.ch) (with the info on who is admin)
3. We send you a list of users that you can add to your team
4. You copy all designs until the end of the month into your Canva Team
5. You let us know (movement@icf.ch) & we remove the users from our team

👉 How To NGO Registration
👉 Canva Migration To Dos
👉 Migration FAQ

Thank you for your help.

Stay blessed,
Benni & Iven

🙋 SURVEY - DIGITAL LEARNING COMMUNITES 💭

Hey Digital Community,

we are planning to organise online learning communities in the future where we can exchange ideas on different topics, invite guests as speakers and share exciting news. 🎉

We would be interested in what you are interested in? What topics should we definitely make a learning community about?

Vote in the poll or let us know in the comments. 🤝

Greetings from the Digital Movement Team ✌️

👨‍💻 ELVANTO - WE NEED YOUR INPUT 📢

We have recently been in contact with Elvanto to find out how it is being developed and what the future plans are, as Elvanto has been bought by the Tithley company. 🙏

💡There are currently no plans to shut it down.
💡It is not being developed much but bugs & small changes are being implemented.

Now we need you! We want to know what are the biggest problems, challenges & wishes for Elvanto.

We will collect them and place them with the Elvanto team. 🤝

Feel free to comment or write to @benniamann

Your Digital Team ✌️

🚀 EQUIP UPDATES 📢

Since our last update in May, we have continued to improve EQUIP and have made some optimizations 🚀

This message is also a reminder that you can use our resource platform at any time and benefit from the advantages 🤝

🎉 PDF Previews
🎉 EQUIP Roadmap
🎉 Language switcher in the profile dropdown
🎉 Profile pictures
🎉 A lot of small UX & design improvements

You can find all details about the updates here


Don't have an EQUIP user yet? You can apply for one here: https://icf.church/equip/en/signup/icf/

Have fun ✌️


PS: Do you have ideas, requests or feedback about EQUIP? Maybe you even know PHP & VueJS and your are interested in helping developing? Please write to me @benniamann

👀 GOOD TO KNOW: GMAIL TRICK FOR AN EMPTY MAILBOX💡

We thought we'd share a few little tips and tricks ✌️

For all those who use Gmail, there is an feature to have many mail addresses at the same time to sort mails automatically.


1️⃣ Wherever you enter an e-mail address, simply enter your normal e-mail address, e.g. benjamin.amann@icf.ch

2️⃣ Now add a "+" and any word or term (this can be anything) e.g. benjamin.amann+important@icf.ch

3️⃣ You will receive the mails normally in your Google mailbox without any problems. You can now e.g. set automatic filters so that it ends up in a folder etc.


This is unlimited - brilliant, isn't it? 🤩

I use it e.g. for newsletter registrations or if I want to test something quickly and have to enter several e-mail addresses. 🤝

Have you heard of this trick? 😊

💳 DONATION FORM SOLUTION💰

Would you like a donation form, especially for Sundays, that has all possible providers integrated? 👀

With Payrexx you can do just that:

👉 Offer direct Apple Pay on your mobile phone
👉 Offer your local payment providers
👉 Offer different currencies
👉 Offer different languages

This allows you to make it even easier for people to donate and not need a PayPal login, for example.

This can certainly lead to more donations 💰

➡️ https://payrexx.com/de/home/

As a non-profit you get a 50% discount with Payrexx


Here is an example form from Vorarlberg. Have fun testing🤝

If you have any questions, please contact @benniamann

☺️ MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎄

An exciting year is behind us - we started this channel with regular news and we hope we could help you here & there 🎉

What's in the pipeline for 2024? 👀

💡Continued updates & tips
💡We are starting with online learning communities
💡We will start sharing more tools & special discounts
💡Our focus shifts to our new website project, and we will bring updates at regular intervals, several times a month
💡AI continues to be a topic (Channel)

Feel free to write to me at https://t.me/benniamann if you have any other ideas or requests 🤝

We'll get back to you in 2024! 👋
Your ICF Digital Team

🚀 FIRST ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY 🎉

As promised, we are starting this year with Online Learning Communities, and the first one is around the corner! The Topic: Our New ICF Website 🔥

We'll give you an update on last year's progress, where we are and how things are progressing, and what you can expect for 2024. A Q&A session will be included. 🤝

🗓️ Wednesday, 07 February
🕖 07:00pm
💬 German (🇺🇸 translation on request - min. 5 people)
🎥 ZOOM LINK


👉 SIGN UP NOW 👈


We are excited to have you as part of it 🚀
Your ICF Digital Team

🚨 REMINDER: FIRST ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY 🚨

Hey Digital Community,

this Wednesday at 19:00 our first Online Learning Community on the topic "New ICF Website" will take place.

We look forward to seeing you there! 🎉

👉 SIGN UP NOW 👈

ZOOM LINK

Your ICF Digital Team 🤝