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Parishsoft Acquires Cornerstone Catholic Software

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 11, 2007
Contact: ParishSOFT
Michael Cusick, Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Phone: 866.930.4774

Ann Arbor, MI - ParishSOFT, the nation's fastest growing church management software company serving Catholic churches, has acquired the software and customer base of JP Consulting, officials from both companies announced today.

According to ParishSOFT President and CEO William Pressprich, ParishSOFT will now be serving the customers of JP Consulting, provider of the Cornerstone software programs that include Parish Management, Religious Education and Ministry Scheduling.

"We are pleased to welcome Cornerstone customers and look forward to supporting their ministry. We will be extending a special offer to them, complete with data conversion, training, and the full resources of our dedicated support team," Pressprich said. "We are committed to ensuring that their transition to ParishSOFT is a smooth one."

James Youngblood, President of JP Consulting, will be joining the ParishSOFT staff. He said, "I am excited to join ParishSOFT as I have known and admired them for several years and am confident they will be a great fit for our customers. ParishSOFT has a very high customer satisfaction rate. Their Catholic-based management software is so intuitive and their support so professional and responsive that our users will find it easy to transfer systems and enjoy the benefits of saving time on their day-to-day tasks and improving communication."

According to Pressprich and Youngblood, current users of the Cornerstone products will be invited to join the thousands of parishes that have already made the switch to ParishSOFT. Teams from ParishSOFT and JP Consulting are working closely to ensure a thorough data conversion, and ParishSOFT support has studied the operating conventions and inner workings of the Cornerstone Software Programs to help new ParishSOFT users get up and running as quickly as possible.

About ParishSOFT

Founded in 1998, ParishSOFT offers a complete suite of church management software and web services that streamline operations, foster stewardship, foster collaboration, and improve communications. ParishSOFT has 40 staff and continually invests in improving its software and web solutions as well as adding new features and products. ParishSOFT presently serves 2,600 Catholic parishes and 29 arch/dioceses.

This is the third acquisition for ParishSOFT, having previously acquired Church Management Solutions (The Software Library™) and The Catholic Software Company. In 2005, ParishSOFT formed a strategic partnership with Our Sunday Visitor (OSV), the nation's largest Catholic producer of church offering envelopes, as well as one of the leading publishers of Catholic periodicals, books and religious education materials.

For more information, contact Michael Cusick, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, at (866) 930-4774 x131 or visit www.parishsoft.com.

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