Our mission at Faithlife is to use technology to equip the Church to grow in the light of the Bible.
Equipping pastors and Bible students with Logos Bible Software is the first and most important thing we do. Resources like Proclaim, Faithlife Groups, Logos Mobile Ed, Bible Study Magazine, Faithlife TV, etc. build on that Bible study base. Our tools help pastors present their sermons and engage their congregations; our expanding content resources equip people at all levels of depth in their Bible study and Christian education.
I am excited to announce that Faithlife has just acquired Ministry Tracker, a church management system (ChMS). This new addition to the Faithlife family complements our existing (and planned) tools by providing a place for churches to manage people, finances, and resource records. The Ministry Tracker team is joining Faithlife and bringing their years of experience serving churches.
Ministry Tracker started years ago as a tool to manage records of ministry contacts, evangelism activities, and relationship development. We are excited to integrate it with Faithlife Groups, Proclaim, SoundFaith, and some other soon-to-be-announced tools for your church. We will be investing in improving the product even faster, and connecting it to other ministry resources.
For more than 25 years, pastors have been our target users of Logos Bible Software. Yes, pastors are less than half the Logos Bible Software users; we have students, teachers, faculty, and all kinds of people who just want to study the Bible. But pastors are the largest single group, and a very useful proxy for all of our users. Even those who aren’t pastors are very much like pastors in terms of the hours they dedicate to Bible study each week and the role many serve in teaching others.
We want to serve the whole Church, though, and we particularly want to equip everyone to grow in the light of the Bible. For many people in the church, that’s more likely to happen on the web, on their mobile phone, or even in front of a television, than through using Logos Bible Software. For many people their Bible education will come not through Logos, but through the teaching and discipleship of Logos users. We want to support people with the tool that’s right for them.
We continue to invest in Logos Bible Software and to improve its utility for our core pastor and pastor-like users. We love you, and you’re our first priority! But how can we help you connect with and teach the people in your church who may never be Logos users?
We are working on answers to that question.
I can tell you the big strategic plan right now, though: integrated technology that helps equip the Church to grow in the light of the Bible. You can see that plan in action already:
- Proclaim features a unique on-screen Bible that presents Scripture in context, and it can record and publish sermons automatically.
- Faithlife TV is like other streaming video platforms, only it has special support for streaming an endless video Bible, delivering Bible courses, and automatically presenting sermons recorded by Proclaim.
- Faithlife Groups is a social platform with special support for prayer requests, Scripture reading, curriculum distribution, and more.
Yes, Faithlife is expanding beyond ‘Bible software’. Yes, we are entering some new product categories. In the coming months we will offer more and more tools for managing the church itself.
But please be assured, the Bible remains at the center of all that we do, and we have some very exciting plans for how Logos will integrate with what traditionally is thought of as ‘church management tools’.
Our mission remains: to equip you, and all the people you worship with, and/or pastor, to grow in the light of the Bible.
P.S. You can try Ministry Tracker right now at MinistryTracker.com! There is a demo account ready to use, and you can sign up and move your church onto the platform today. Look for frequent improvements and integration with Proclaim, Faithlife Groups, and more!