Our Story

Ministry Centered Technologies was established by Jeff Berg in January of 2006. The company was founded to support a host of products created by Jeff. The most notable being Planning Center Online. Planning Center Online was birthed from a need at the local church where Jeff Berg was currently working. He was employed as the Director of Creative Development and worked in and reported directly to the Pastor of Worship Arts. Aaron Stewart was one of the worship leaders on staff and he and Jeff Berg brainstormed about an easier way to plan and organize the weekend worship service through the use of computer software. The result was Planning Center Online. Jeff originally created it as a windows based program and later redesigned it in Rails and released it as a web 2.0 program at the Saddleback Worship Festival and Conference in June of 2006. From there the company grew through magazine advertising and mainly through word of mouth among worship leaders.

Planning Center Online will supply one central place to organize all aspects of your ministry service and keep your staff and volunteers connected. Creating service plans, scheduling volunteers through simple emails, chord chart and mp3 transposing, ccli reporting are just a few of the program’s features. Volunteers receive scheduling emails and they have the ability to “accept”, “decline”, or “view the service” all with the click of their mouse. Volunteers will now be able to view all pdf’s and other various attachments associated with your plan in one central place.

Using Planning Center’s “Matrix” view will allow you to plan several weeks in advance through simple drag and drop functionality. Planning Center has specific Media and Song pages that allow you to search, filter and find specific songs or media for your plan.

The People page allows you to search for people to schedule by band position, vocal part, ministry group and the list goes on and on. For example, in just two clicks you can schedule a piano player for your service.

Each user on your account will have their own calendar where they can block out dates that they are not available for in advance of you scheduling them. You will be notified immediately that an individual is not available for a date if they have blocked it out. Their calendar will also reflect the dates that they are scheduled to serve.

Planning Center Online is web-based which means you or your users will not have to install any software. You just need an internet connection and you can access the program from anywhere. Please feel free to check out our video tutorials or just sign up for a free 30 days and see how Planning Center Online will revolutionize the way you plan your ministry services.

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