{"id":8837,"date":"2013-09-12T23:24:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/sep\/13\/cloud-computing-and-church-match-made-heaven\/"},"modified":"2013-09-12T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T23:24:07","slug":"cloud-computing-and-the-church-a-match-made-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-and-the-church-a-match-made-in-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud computing and the Church: A match made in heaven?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the week that Pope Francis decreed that atheists could still go to heaven if they followed their consciences, a new report has come to light showing how churches are taking up the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Four out of five large churches &ndash; comprising 1000 weekly attendees or more &ndash; are using cloud technology, with 55% of small churches currently in the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>And the advantages are clear to see. Churches who are using the cloud to support online giving were almost two times more likely to see an upturn in donations. 72% of cloud-based large churches affirmed this, as opposed to just 41% of smaller churches.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the report also revealed a spike in engagement for churches in the cloud. Just over half (53%) of large cloudy churches stream their events, compared to just over 32% of those not utilising cloud.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest growth however is in smartphone apps for engagement. Just &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the week that Pope Francis decreed that atheists could still go to heaven if they followed their consciences, a new report has come to light showing how churches are taking up the cloud.<br \/>\nFour out of five large churches &ndash; comprising 1000 weekly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}