Website Builder + Church Management Software = All in one place, all for one price. https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/Blog.htm Fri, 30 Jun 2023 MST Sat, 17 Mar 2012 MST 1800 OCS 3.0 Blog Feed Creator We will be closed for Summer Break Week beginning on Monday, July 3, through Friday, July 7.... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Closed-for-the-Week-Summer-Break-and-Independence-Day-2023 https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Closed-for-the-Week-Summer-Break-and-Independence-Day-2023 Fri, 30 Jun 2023 MST ... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Closed-for-Juneteenth-2023 https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Closed-for-Juneteenth-2023 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 MST Just in time for the Christmas season, your church texting can now send an image with your text. Generate... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Church-Texting-Now-Includes-Images-MMS https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Church-Texting-Now-Includes-Images-MMS Fri, 09 Dec 2022 MST Things may have been quiet on our blog for awhile, but bubbling just below the surface has been a lot... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/New-Updates-on-the-Way-Stay-Tuned https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/New-Updates-on-the-Way-Stay-Tuned Tue, 20 Sep 2022 MST It's already such a busy time, but don't forget that Easter is a few weeks away. That means getting... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Easter-is-Around-the-Corner-So-Get-Your-Church-Ready https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Easter-is-Around-the-Corner-So-Get-Your-Church-Ready Tue, 22 Mar 2022 MST They say time flies when you’re having fun! Well, it’s unbelievable how fast these first 10 years... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Celebrating-a-Decade-in-Business https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Celebrating-a-Decade-in-Business Thu, 17 Mar 2022 MST It's gonna be a busy year, so get started now planning your Vacation Bible School (VBS), Bible Camp,... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Get-Ready-for-VBS-or-Bible-Camp-Now https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Get-Ready-for-VBS-or-Bible-Camp-Now Tue, 08 Feb 2022 MST The 3+ Website Builder work continues, and the second beta release happens this month. Today we wanted... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-Quick-Change-Controls https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-Quick-Change-Controls Thu, 03 Feb 2022 MST We’re starting the new year by revealing our all-new sermon podcast media player! Over a year in... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Introducing-the-All-New-Sermon-Podcast-Media-Player https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Introducing-the-All-New-Sermon-Podcast-Media-Player Wed, 05 Jan 2022 MST In our 3+ Website Builder, now in beta testing, you can change your fonts and font sizes... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-Font-CSS-Live-Editing https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-Font-CSS-Live-Editing Thu, 16 Dec 2021 MST 3+ Website Builder now has centralized Page Management, giving you at-a-glance control. Like... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-Page-Management https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-Page-Management Fri, 10 Dec 2021 MST As we are adding more sections to 3+, we wanted to make finding the right section quick and easy, so... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-Section-Categories https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-Section-Categories Wed, 01 Dec 2021 MST Everything's coming together for the 3+ Website Builder, and this week's update video takes just a... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-Publishing-Sections https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-Publishing-Sections Thu, 18 Nov 2021 MST The improvements in 3+ are some of our best yet, and the new way to add sections to your webpage is... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-The-Best-Way-to-Add-Sections https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-The-Best-Way-to-Add-Sections Wed, 10 Nov 2021 MST We’ve got a whole new way of building and controlling placement of your website footer, and we’d... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-New-and-Improved-Footer- https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-New-and-Improved-Footer- Fri, 05 Nov 2021 MST It's now the "Planning for Christmas" season. Hasn't the year flown by? Before it gets really... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Its-Time-Get-to-Your-Church-Ready-for-Christmas https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Its-Time-Get-to-Your-Church-Ready-for-Christmas Tue, 02 Nov 2021 MST For our 3+ Update this week we have a brief video showing the Background Image Search we've plugged... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-Background-Image-Search https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/3-Update-Background-Image-Search Thu, 28 Oct 2021 MST Something crazy happened while building 3.0. As we programmed the entirely new website builder, the... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Taking-It-From-Good-to-Great-Announcing-3 https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Taking-It-From-Good-to-Great-Announcing-3 Wed, 13 Oct 2021 MST More than ever before, your church's online presence is vital, especially as we approach Christmas.... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/New-Online-Focus-5-Things-to-Get-Your-Church-Website-Ready-for-Christmas https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/New-Online-Focus-5-Things-to-Get-Your-Church-Website-Ready-for-Christmas Thu, 19 Nov 2020 MST Click above to view the Walk Through Video for an overview. The all-new Church Texting 3.0 (formerly... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/The-All-New-Church-Texting-30-is-Here https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/The-All-New-Church-Texting-30-is-Here Fri, 25 Sep 2020 MST If your church is using YouTube to stream your services live, updates are on the way. Look for: Live... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Updates-Coming-for-YouTube-Creators-Using-Live-Streams https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Updates-Coming-for-YouTube-Creators-Using-Live-Streams Thu, 02 Apr 2020 MST With so many churches taking services online, some have also held live Bible studies on web meeting... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Using-Zoom-for-Your-Online-Bible-Study-Watch-Out-for-Bad-Intruders https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Using-Zoom-for-Your-Online-Bible-Study-Watch-Out-for-Bad-Intruders Wed, 01 Apr 2020 MST Facebook Live viewing numbers have jumped by 50% from January to March 2020, which likely isn't a big... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/New-Features-Coming-to-Facebook-Live https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/New-Features-Coming-to-Facebook-Live Tue, 31 Mar 2020 MST If you don't have a soundboard or church member who can record your sermons, there are fast and inexpensive... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/How-to-Start-Recording-Your-Sermon-Podcasts https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/How-to-Start-Recording-Your-Sermon-Podcasts Wed, 25 Mar 2020 MST With church these days moving to online-only viewing, it can be a struggle to keep connected to your... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Create-a-Connection-Card-for-Online-Worshipers https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Create-a-Connection-Card-for-Online-Worshipers Tue, 24 Mar 2020 MST With so many churches canceling their live services to go online with video, we recommend recording... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/How-to-Compress-Your-Video-Sermon-or-Service-for-Upload https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/How-to-Compress-Your-Video-Sermon-or-Service-for-Upload Mon, 23 Mar 2020 MST We know you're scrambling to adapt to new demands on how you keep church going. So are we! Here are... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Special-Update-Church-Communication-Helpful-Links https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Special-Update-Church-Communication-Helpful-Links Fri, 20 Mar 2020 MST Well, I never thought I’d be writing a post like this on the OCS 8 Year Anniversary! Weeks ago I had put... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/An-Important-Note-From-Mark-and-Alisha https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/An-Important-Note-From-Mark-and-Alisha Tue, 17 Mar 2020 MST Notifying your church members about an unexpected weather cancellation just got even easier! Next week... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/OCS-30-Rollout-Voice-Broadcasting https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/OCS-30-Rollout-Voice-Broadcasting Thu, 24 Oct 2019 MST Everyone knows most websites today end with .com (or .org, plus a few others), which are called a Domain... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Choose-a-Creative-Domain-Name-Extension-for-Your-Church https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Choose-a-Creative-Domain-Name-Extension-for-Your-Church Tue, 13 Aug 2019 MST Stock photography has been such a help in building websites that look great, and churches and ministries... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Shouldnt-I-Use-Stock-Photos-on-Our-Church-Website https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Shouldnt-I-Use-Stock-Photos-on-Our-Church-Website Mon, 15 Jul 2019 MST Churches need to be aware of two Domain Name notifications you might receive in your mailbox involving... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Beware-of-Fake-Invoices-for-Your-Website-Domain-Name https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Beware-of-Fake-Invoices-for-Your-Website-Domain-Name Tue, 18 Jun 2019 MST Great news: OCS 3.0 Rollout starts now! Group Texting is the first to release. Here are the details: Now... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/OCS-30-Rollout-Starts-Now-Group-Texting https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/OCS-30-Rollout-Starts-Now-Group-Texting Tue, 21 May 2019 MST If you missed Part 1 of "Why Your Church Needs to Own Your Website Domain Name," be sure to catch up... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Why-Your-Church-Needs-to-Own-Your-Website-Domain-Name-Part-2 https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Why-Your-Church-Needs-to-Own-Your-Website-Domain-Name-Part-2 Thu, 09 May 2019 MST If your church has a website, that means someone decided on a name (such as www.yournameofchurch.com)... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Why-Your-Church-Needs-to-Own-Your-Website-Domain-Name-Part-1 https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Why-Your-Church-Needs-to-Own-Your-Website-Domain-Name-Part-1 Wed, 01 May 2019 MST Have you thought about starting a church blog or pastor's blog but don't know where to begin? Over... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Six-Steps-to-Starting-a-Church-Blog https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Six-Steps-to-Starting-a-Church-Blog Wed, 27 Mar 2019 MST This Sunday, March 17, we will complete our seventh year in business. Alisha recently took a digital... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Seven-Years-in-Business https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Seven-Years-in-Business Thu, 14 Mar 2019 MST Our new Mobile Web Texting App connects our Membership Database, Group Texting, and Keyword... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/New-App-Keeps-the-Text-Conversation-Going https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/New-App-Keeps-the-Text-Conversation-Going Fri, 19 Oct 2018 MST Part of our ongoing Feature Spotlight Series If you're looking for a Responsive Email Newsletter for... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Feature-Spotlight-Responsive-Email-Newsletter https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Feature-Spotlight-Responsive-Email-Newsletter Mon, 20 Aug 2018 MST Social Media Policy for your church sounds like a simple thing you might need, right? Yet in today's... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Social-Media-Policy-and-Your-Church https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Social-Media-Policy-and-Your-Church Wed, 09 May 2018 MST Vacation Bible School (VBS) can be information overload if you're in charge of tracking payments, registration,... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/VBS-Plan-Communicate-Promote-and-Organize-with-Our-Software https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/VBS-Plan-Communicate-Promote-and-Organize-with-Our-Software Sat, 07 Apr 2018 MST It's not long before Easter will be here! Review our 9-Item Easter Checklist for your church's... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/9-Things-for-Your-Church-to-Check-Before-Easter https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/9-Things-for-Your-Church-to-Check-Before-Easter Tue, 27 Feb 2018 MST Part of our ongoing Feature Spotlight Series If you're looking for a system to easily update and automatically... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Feature-Spotlight-Online-Church-Directory https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Feature-Spotlight-Online-Church-Directory Thu, 30 Nov 2017 MST Christmas is around the corner! Review our 10-Item Christmas Checklist for your church's online presence... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/10-Things-for-Your-Church-to-Check-Before-Christmas https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/10-Things-for-Your-Church-to-Check-Before-Christmas Wed, 08 Nov 2017 MST Three years ago today we launched Online Church Solutions, and it seems like the time has flown. From... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Our-Three-Year-Anniversary https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/Our-Three-Year-Anniversary Tue, 17 Mar 2015 MST Happy St. Patrick's day, and welcome to our new website! We're excited to get to launch our new... https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/The-Launch-of-Online-Church-Solutions https://www.onlinechurchsolutions.com/blogs/OCS/The-Launch-of-Online-Church-Solutions Sat, 17 Mar 2012 MST