This morning I saw Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, talking about “networking the church”. What he said hit home with what we’re doing here at ACS Technologies. For the past 30 years, we have been building a technology platform that allows the church to connect at a local level and also connect with the Church at a regional, national and world level.

The ACS platform supports networking at the local church by allowing home groups, committees, choirs, Sunday school classes or any other group in the local church to operate outside the walls of the church office. Now groups can communicate with each other using the internet but still stay connected to the church database. Working at the local church and the congregation is where any effort to network the Church world-wide must begin. The next step is to provide a common platform for all churches so the kind of networking Rick is talking about is possible.

That’s our vision here at ACS Technologies. With 22,000 churches ministering to more than 70 million people already using ACS Technologies products, the platform is being built. With continued future growth and acquisitions these numbers can double in the next 12 months and the platform will get even stronger.

Networking 1 billions church members is a task that will require coordination on a mammoth scale. A common technology platform for the church can help make this effort a reality. The results will be monumental and change our world.