Friday, 1 March 2013

What You Need To Know To Help You Make Mobile Apps For Churches

By Jazzi George


If you want to be able to develop good mobile apps for churches, you have to understand several very important things first. We are going past the programming and design stages since it is already assumed that you are well-versed at them, considering that you are already developing apps anyway. Rather, we are focusing on practical 'church-related' things you need to have some understanding of - against a background where you need to know how something normally works, before you can be in a position to create an app for it.

If, for instance, the church was the one who approached you to create a specific app for them, with the features clearly defined or outlined, you can simply develop what you are told, with their specifications. But it is going to be a different story if you are an app developer who is eyeing commercial success by selling the apps you develop to the churches or its members.

Churches mobile apps, in order to be very good and effective, would require the app developer to have an understanding of the Scriptures. An example would be an app that would help the users read the scriptures online. Of course, you have to make sure you know how the bible is structured, as well as how many books there are, and what they are, exactly. Knowing the basics on the bible is very important despite the fact that you are developing another app instead of a bible app. The worst you can do is to create a church app, only for it to be rejected on account of it being 'encouraging unbiblical practices' in some way.

To ensure that the mobile apps you develop for churches are useful and good, you also should have a clear understanding on the worship practices and procedures. You may, for instance, have to create a prayer app (to help people in saying their prayers). The different types of prayers, prayer deliveries, difficulties and subsequent solutions should definitely be looked into. The same is true when you are developing a confession app. The confession procedure should be fully understood so you can translate it into an app without losing its very essence. If you compare non-Christian to Christian app developers, it is easy to see that the letter gain preference when doing this job because of their familiarity with the practices and procedures.

Developers of useful mobile apps for churches are also advised to get a full grasp on how these churches go about managing their finances. This will give you an idea how much you will be able to charge the churches and also how you can commercialize the apps, should you decide to sell the apps eventually in the future. If you do not take note of this, you may end up developing apps that are not at all feasible or wouldn't be worth anything.




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