Updates are everything in the software world, and without quality updates and timely information your awesome software product could be yesterday’s wasted effort. From time to time, users of Arena “need” to be informed. How do you keep up with the latest trends, newest Arena modules, and how can you vote on someone’s great idea if you have never ...

Shelby Systems strives to provide churches with excellent tools to help them serve the people in their congregation and reach their ministry goals.  The Arena division is always working to find ways to improve the software and to incorporate community involvement in the development and direction of the software. The Arena ...

Favorite Quote of the Day:   ''There is so much new functionality added with each release, it's dizzying. Between the code posted for all on The Community and the additions to the core product, Arena has kept an impressive pace.''   An excellent conversation including the above comment is here.

I recently had a great conversation with Julie Curry, the Membership Data Director at The Church at Brook Hills. I was excited to hear how their church is using Arena, specifically the Group Leader Toolbox. The Toolbox assists group leaders in keeping track of and communicating with group participants through the church’s website.   Brook ...

In a recent REV! Magazine article, senior advisor of Catalyst and multi-site pioneer, Jim Tomberlin, predicted, “We'll have what I call super megachurches or ‘giga’ churches, but in smaller buildings.” Advancements in technology have greatly increased the ability for one church to spread its message to other church sites, including internet ...

Church Leaders are always looking for ways to impact their community. For instance, Rob Wegner and the crew at Granger are having a one day event to inform people about The P.E.A.C.E Plan. The Plan, by Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, is “ordinary people empowered by God, making a difference wherever they are.''We are in a day and ...

  Church conferences are an excellent time to see Arena in action. We will be at Innovate 2008, MinistryCOM, and Catalyst in the upcoming months.  If you’re going to be at any of these events, please stop by and say hi.Be blessed, Christopher Rivers Arena Sales Coordinator

                     Thanks to New Covenant for great feedback: Arena is opening new doors of communication and connectedness for us. We are excited to use Arena to help us communicate effectively to specifically targeted groups of people. Arena will allow us to keep our ...

July 10, 2007FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE       Contact: Brent Davis 901.260.2027, ext. 1012  Shelby Systems Aligns Leadership to Manage GrowthCORDOVA, TN - Shelby Systems, a leading provider of church management software, is pleased to announce that Ron Chandler has joined the company as Director of Customer ...

The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, Leawood, KS (136 employees and Shelby client since 2000) and Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie, MN (104 employees and Shelby client since 1990) were included in the top three finalists of the churches category.  Congratulations to Senior Pastor Adam Hamilton and Sr. Director of Technology Clif ...