Churchteams began as a plan to build a database for the church where Boyd Pelley was the discipleship pastor and Mark Horan, a software developer, was attending. Heavily influenced by the discipleship and church growth movements of the 1980s and 90s, Boyd felt that a new kind of software, built not around accounting but the church’s Great Commission, was needed. Mark agreed to partner with Boyd to build it, and they decided to leverage the growing popularity of cloud-based software.
Several other churches began using the new software within a year. Soon after, consultants and several large, influential churches started referring Churchteams to clients and friends, which continued the growth of our company. We began to receive requests for tracking membership, contributions, check-in, assimilation, and more which led to us becoming a full church management system. We took the lessons we learned in creating simple yet powerful small-group software and applied them to church management for other ministry areas and church leaders. A great example is our development of Text-to-Church, our most popular feature to date.
Churchteams continues to be owner-operated, but this company has always been the Lord’s. It’s a blend of ministry and business, in that order. Because of this, we value customer success, honesty, teamwork, and value without compromise when it comes to pricing.