Our History
In 1999, Fellowship Church had concluded that to support their growth and congregational needs, it would need a more robust church management and information system. Over the course of that year, Fellowship Church was averaging around 6,000 in weekend worship attendance, and was functioning using one of the traditional church management software on the market.
Fellowship Church met with a couple of the top church management software vendors at the time to determine if either of them were willing to work with the church to develop the functionality it needed to support its growth. Because mega-churches, like Fellowship Church, were not what they considered as their target market, the vendors declined the opportunity to upgrade their systems with the functionality Fellowship Church thought it needed to excel. After looking at other alternatives as well, Fellowship Church reluctantly decided to build a custom solution to address its functional requirements.
Fellowship Church started by developing a fast, convenient, child check-in system to reduce the time required to drop off children, and at the same time, improve the safety of the children by eliminating any risk from a non-guardian picking up a child that had been received into the church's custody. From that foundation, Fellowship Church added capabilities to support the other areas of the church until it determined that most of its requirements had been met. However, to maintain the system, the executive staff at Fellowship Church concluded that the on-going costs were more than it could comfortably bear. In 2003, Fellowship Church decided that it should sell the software and all its rights to a company that had the "core competency" to build and support such a robust computer system.
After looking at several alternatives, Fellowship Church approached a long term member within the church, Jeff Hook, to inquire whether he had any interest in founding such a company and to take the software to market. After a considerable amount of prayer and business planning, Jeff Hook, along with a core group of people, founded Fellowship Technologies in January 2004.
After just over 4 years of operations, Fellowship Technologies has over 700 customers ranging in size from a small plant church in Colorado that just opened its doors to, of course, Fellowship Church that now averages over 20,000 in attendance across 5 campuses during a typical weekend. Fellowship Technologies now has 19 of the 50 most influential churches in America (as rated by The Church Report), 31 of the top 100 largest churches in America as its customers; and 24 of the top 100 fastest growing churches in the United States. FT also has clients in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.