Kenneth Svenningsen

Kenneth Svenningsen
I want to make things that matter and make a difference. I'm responsible for our customers and obsessed about helping churches meet people with technology.
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The ChurchDesk Portal: All events in one place for everyone

We are introducing the ChurchDesk Portal to help dioceses and deaneries to get a full and central overview of all the events and services in your parishes and churches.

Features and improvements introduced in May

Learn more about the features and improvement we have made in ChurchDesk over the last month. We invest every month in making our service to you even better. Here you can learn how we have done that.

ChurchDesk is introducing a new calendar

In December 2019 we introduced our new calendar to churches and it's been very well received. Now we're switching all users to the new calendar with a lot of improvements. 

ChurchDesk Multi-Parish supports work across multiple congregations and churches

ChurchDesk Multi-Parish is the new tool for benefices and parishes that work across multiple congregations or churches. 

Get a beautiful website with our new website elements and let us do all the work!

We are excited to give you more and highly flexible design options for your ChurchDesk website. It is now even easier to make beautiful church websites.

Copyrights: Make sure to credit people for their work

ChurchDesk now supports crediting your images on your website. Simply add the copyright details when uploading your images to your file archive and we’ll make sure to show this on your website. It only requires that you use Theme 6 & 8.. Oh and we are soon launching a new theme again (it looks beautiful).

Search your ChurchDesk Calendar & other Goodies...

You’ll now be able to search for any event or absence in your ChurchDesk Calendar. To run a search, simply type the title in the search bar.

Sell tickets and receive donations with ChurchDesk

With our new integration between ChurchDesk Payments & Giving and ChurchDesk Forms, you now have a very powerful and easy to use tool for managing event signups, payments and donations in one go.

Manage your Electoral Roll Refresh easily with ChurchDesk

Ask most electoral roll officers and church wardens about what they’re looking forward to at the moment and the answer’s probably not the Electoral Roll refresh. We've now integrated the Electoral Application process is directly integrated into ChurchDesk.

Significant improvements to Rotas

We've made significant improvements to the way you manage your Rotas in ChurchDesk. The improvements are based on feedback and close collaboration with many parishes across the UK.

Keep your contact data updated with Forms

When a contact submits new data you can easily update their profile in ChurchDesk People. We’ve recently updated our forms to help you keep your contact data up to date.

Strengthen your work with more flexible forms

With ChurchDesk Forms, you can collect relevant information for your contacts so you can easily get back in touch with them.

View all parish services on your deanery website

With ChurchDesk, deaneries can create a list of events from their parishes’ diaries by using the new widgets.

Share your events on Facebook, automatically!

Easily share your events on Facebook from your ChurchDesk Calendar and instantly reach beyond your church community.

Get a new church website in a few clicks with new responsive designs

People are also increasingly using their smartphones and tablets to browse online, so your website, of course, also needs to look good on any device. New beautiful and responsive website design in ChurchDesk

Our CEO on how to build a great church management software

At ChurchDesk we are often asked why we work so hard on building a workflow management software for churches. My answer as CEO is always: We work hard...

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I want to talk to all our customers

I will jumb right into it! Last week I got a great idea and wrote out to 1,000 of our active users and asked if they could find 10-15 minutes of their...

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Is your church ready for the new Google requirements to be mobile?

Google has big changes coming up in the way they prioritize their search results. April 21, 2015, Google changes significantly. The company just annou...

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