Technology and the Church with Aaron Stewart
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Technology and the Church with Aaron Stewart

B1IntermediateAugust 28, 202642 min

If you work in ministry or volunteer at your church then chances are you've used Planning Center. In the latest episode of Make It Simple, Matt chats with Aaron Stewart, the co-founder of Planning Center Services to discuss technology and the church. Keywords: technology, tech, church, AI, ministry Planning Center: https://planningcenter.com VoxCon 2027: https://www.gotovox.com/ Support the show For more information on Make It Simple Ministries, head to https://makeitsimple.org/ To support Make It Simple, head here: Support the show Buy...

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Welcome to Make It Simple, where we take complicated issues and, with the help of a friend, break them down into ideas we can understand, truths we can apply, and questions worth pondering. I'm your host, Matt Popovits, and with me on the podcast today is Aaron Stewart. Aaron Stewart is a co-founder of Planning Center Services, and if you are in ministry,

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church work of any kind, you certainly know of Planning Center. Planning Center is the number one software suite that helps church leaders not just organize worship services, that's how it started, but really manage all of church life. They've got about 80,000 churches around the world that use their software.

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And so Aaron's here to talk to us about not just the origins of Planning Center, but the relationship between the church and Christian people with technology. So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk a little bit about AI. It's a great and timely conversation. We're also going to talk at the very end.

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