🚀 NEXT ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY - GIVING SOLUTIONS 🎉

One of our values is generosity, and our churches are based on donations. That's our culture. For that, we need good digital solutions to make it as easy and simple as possible.

In this OLC, we want to show you tools that make this possible, share best practices from different ICF's, tips & tricks, and a small outlook on what ideas we as the ICF Movement have to make this easier in the future.

🗓️ Wednesday, 02. April
🕖 07:00pm
💬 English


👉 SIGN UP NOW 👈


Do you have great tips and insights you'd like to share? Feel free to message me @benniamann 🙌

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

🚨 REMINDER: ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY ABOUT GIVING SOLUTIONS🚨

Hey Digital Community,

this Wednesday at 19:00 our next Online Learning Community will take place.

Will will talk about:
⭐️Giving form solutions
⭐️How to optimize them
⭐️Tracking & Analytics
⭐️Special Innovation: NFC Tags
⭐️How to save fees at Paypal/Stripe
⭐️Vision for the future

We look forward to seeing you there! 🎉

👉 SIGN UP NOW 👈

Your ICF Digital Team 🤝

🎥 WE ARE LIVE! 🎥

👉 GIVING SOLUTION FOR YOUR CHURCH👈

JOIN NOW 📢
https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/63943369835

🎉 ICF HUB - OFFICIAL VERSION 1️⃣ 🎉


We have something to celebrate. The beta phase of the ICF Hub is finished and version 1 is now online and ready to use 🎉🎉

At the very beginning of the website project, we didn't know how it would be possible - It was full of challenges (team change, agency change, dependencies). Thank you for your support & prayers! 🙏We’re grateful to reach this milestone 🤝

What is the ICF Hub? 👀

ICF Hub is part of the website project and through that also part of the Movement REACH BEYOND.

The ICF Hub is the new central data management platform of the ICF Movement. Primarily, it will be relevant for the website to create and manage celebrations, events, preachers etc.

How can I use it? 💪

It will be truly useful with the new website. But you are welcome to test it in advance. Just contact @benniamann and we will send you an invitation

AMA SESSION - Ask me anything 🙋‍♂️

Would you like to learn more about the ICF Hub, its features, and what is planned for the future? We are offering an online info session this week

📅 This Wednesday
🕞 04:30 pm
📍 Zoom
👥 with Pascal, Daniel & Benni (ICF Hub Dev. Team)


Feel free to join ✌️

ICF DIGITAL UPDATES 👋

The ICF Conference is just around the corner, and we look forward to coming together as the ICF Movement Family 🤩

As you can imagine, we have a lot going on right now, but the digital department is not sleeping 😉 Here are a few updates for you 🙌


👨‍💻 WEBSITE UPDATE
You can find our latest update in the Website Update Channel. We are in the final stages.

🎧 NEW PODCAST SOLUTION
This week, we sent reminders to ICFs that are still using the old plugin. The deadline for the switch is the end of August.

🎥 RECORDING OF THE LAST OLC
You can find the recording of our latest online learning community “Giving Solutions” here

⚙️ ELVANTO FUTURE
We are currently evaluating and testing potential replacements for Elvanto. We will share updates as soon as possible

🚀 AI CHANNEL
We reached 700 subscribes this week! There are new posts about “Google Gemini” and “AI Worship.” Take a look!


Do you have any questions? Feel free to write to us at digital@icf.church

Have a great week ✌️

⭐️ ICF CONFERENCE - COMMUNITY HANGOUT 🤩

The ICF Conference starts tomorrow 🎉 We can't wait!

Are you attending in person? Let's connect in person as a community 🙌

🕡 18:30 – 19:30
📍 Location (click here)

See you tomorrow ✌️
If you have any questions, write me @benniamann

👨‍💻 ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY RECORDING - DIGITAL GIVING SOLUTIONS 💳

Beginning of April we had our Online Learning Community about Digital Giving Solutions 🎉. We uploaded the recording now to EQUIP (🇩🇪 & 🇺🇸 Subtitles)

Content
⭐️Giving form solutions
⭐️How to optimize them
⭐️Tracking & Analytics
⭐️Special Innovation: NFC Tags
⭐️How to save fees at Paypal/Stripe
⭐️Vision for the future

Check it out 👋
🔗 https://icf.church/equip/de/ressourcen/digitale-spenden-loesungen/ 🔗


Have a great week ✌️
Your ICF Digital Team

🚨 CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD 🚨

Yes, you are reading right - we currently recommend that you change your passwords (social media, email, website, etc.). ‼️

Just in the last few weeks it became known that a lot of user data was stolen and published (over 16 billion user data with data from Apple, Google, Instagram, Facebook, Zoom etc.). 🤯


1. change passwords 🔀
At least 12 characters, do not reuse passwords, don't use words and add a special character

2. activate two-factor authentication 🔐
For as many accounts as possible, preferably for all, this should be mandatory for admin users

3. use password manager 🏰
Increases security, provides structure, easier sharing/centralized management) -> Our recommendation is 1Password

4. register at https://haveibeenpwned.com/notifyme 📧
You will be notified if one of your accounts is affected (if the data is public)

We don't know exactly who or which accounts are affected, but we prefer to be preventive and help you to be safer on the road. 🤝

Do you have any questions? 🙋‍♂️Feel free to contact us at digital@icf.church

👋 ICF DIGITAL - SUMMER NEWS 🌴

We hope you enjoy your summer break and get some time to relax

As the Digital Team, we are working hard on the release of the new ICF website and many other projects 🚀

To keep you from getting bored, we have a few new tool recommendations for you 😜

🎙️ LIVEVOICE
Some people already know and use it. An ingenious tool for live translation – now even with AI
🔗 https://livevoice.io/

📊 VIEW STATS
The best YouTube analytics tool – track trends, A/B tests, or set trend alarms. Founded by the world's biggest YouTuber (Mr. Beast)
🔗 https://www.viewstats.com/

🖥️ SQUOOSH
Old but gold. Compress images ultra-fast for free
🔗 https://squoosh.app/

👨‍💻 MICROSOFT CLARITY
Website analysis on the next level. Completely free tool for heat maps and more
🔗 https://clarity.microsoft.com/

🙏 FAITH.TOOLS
The best place to find apps & tools for churches. A database of christian/faith-based software
🔗 https://faith.tools/


You can find a bunch of tool recommendations with discount codes here https://digital.icf.church/tools 🔥


Enjoy your summer ✌️
Your Digital Team

🎉 WEBSITE IS BACK ONLINE 🎉

We were able to restore everything with a backup and the website is running as usual again! 🤝

🚨 Important: 🚨
If you made any changes to the website yesterday (content, text, forms), you will need to do so again. Unfortunately, we were unable to prevent this—yesterday's changes have been lost.

We apologize for the trouble and thank you for your patience and support. 🙏

We will also be happy once we have the new website 🚀

🚀 CELEBRATION LIVE TRANSLATION WITH AI 🚀

Would you like to make your celebration available in other languages, but don't have any translators yet? This is exactly where AI can help us. 🙋‍♂️

Over the past few months, we have tested many tools, including LiveVoice, which we also use for human translation at ICF Zurich and other ICFs 🤝 The founders are Christians too and want to support churches with their technology

Together with them, we have tested and optimized the AI functions and are thrilled with the latest version. The quality, speed, and content are truly impressive - Supported are 65 languages 📢 (🇨🇭german now available)

💰Use code “ICF10” for 10% start discount
💰They offer special discount for churches
💰Churches get 30%+ discount on AI features
💳 Discount level depends on your plan
📧 Just contact the support & mention "ICF Movement"

👉 https://livevoice.io/ 👈

Your ICF Digital Team

🎉 THE NEW WEBSITE 🎉

We have news! I am honored to finally announce that the backend of the new website is now available for you! 🥳

⭐️ ICF Hub is available too
⭐️ Templates & Example Pages
⭐️ Help Center with 120+ tutorials
⭐️ AI Chatbot to support you


Fill out the form to get access 🔐
(only your main admin/project leader)

🔗 GET ACCESS

Checkout the Help Center 👋
(all our tutorials are available there)

🔗 WEBSITE HELP CENTER

Website Intro + Q&A 🗓️
(Get to know the website & ask questions)

✚ Tuesday 21.10 | 5pm - 6:30pm (German 🇩🇪)
✚ Thursday 23.10 | 3pm - 4:30pm (English 🇺🇸)


Thank you 👋
Your ICF Digital Team

⚠️ GLOBAL OUTAGES ⚠️

Various tools such as Asana, Canva, and others are currently offline. And also our ICF website since a few minutes

We do not yet have any information about the exact cause, but we are already working on a solution.

Thank you for your patience 🙏

WE ARE BACK 😎

The ICF website is alive again 🎉 — other tools apparently not yet 😢

--
It is now clear that Amazon Web Services (Cloud Server from Amazon) is the cause and is experiencing problems 🙈

JOIN THE WEBSITE CHANNEL 🤝

Today, we have our first website intro video call 👋
You need the Zoom Link?

👇 Join the website update channel 👇

https://t.me/+Y_e0O-HID3pkZGRk

THE NEXT ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY 🙌

The next Online Learning Community is just around the corner, and we thought we'd take this opportunity to talk about the ICF website and the ICF Hub 🙌

This is a chance for you to ask questions, we'll share some best practices, and we'll have a discussion.

We'll also give you a little insight into the features we have planned for next year. 🚀

🗓️ Wednesday, 19.11
🕞 06:00 pm (Zurich time)
📍 Zoom

We look forward to seeing you ☺️

Today 06:00pm 🙌😊
Join us!

https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/65217709068

🤝 CHURCH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - WHAT SHOULD I USE? 👨‍💻

In 2017/2018, we as a movement communicated a recommendation for the church management system “Elvanto.” Great product, special ICF discount, and even German as a language option. 🎉

Elvanto has since been sold and has not been further developed for some time. 😢

For this reason, we as a movement are currently searching for a new tool that we could recommend:

⭐️ We have evaluated over 25+ tools
⭐️ We have currently 3 finalists
⭐️ We have a team that tests the new tools (ICF SWB, Munich, Rhein-Main & Herrenberg)

Whats next? 🤝
👉 You can still use Elvanto (There is no official end-of-life). It is still a very good tool!
👉 You are in decision process for a new tool? Contact us so we can update you on our progress


Our goal is to have tested all possibilities by the end of Q1 and then communicate a new recommendation. 🙌

Your Digital Team