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ParishSOFT News & Information
Press Release
Our Sunday Visitor and ParishSOFT Announce Strategic Partnership
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 2005
Contact:
Our Sunday Visitor
Kyle Hamilton, President
Offering Envelope Division
Greg Erlandson, President
Publishing Division
Phone: 260.356.8400
ParishSOFT
Bill Pressprich, President & CEO
Phone: 734.205.1000
HUNTINGTON, Ind. - Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., and Ann Arbor, Mich.-based ParishSOFT LLC entered into a strategic partnership effective Jan.1, 2005, according to statements released by both management teams.
Our Sunday Visitor is the nationÌs largest Catholic producer of church offering envelopes as well as one of the leading publishers of Catholic periodicals, books and religious education materials.
ParishSOFT is engaged in the development, sale and support of church management software and web services for the Catholic and Protestant markets in the United States.
"The possibility of aligning offering envelope and stewardship capabilities, educational and informational materials, with church management software and web services provides strategic opportunities for both companies," said Kyle Hamilton, President of the Our Sunday Visitor Offering Envelope Division.
"We have tremendous respect for ParishSOFTÌs technical innovation, their dedication to meeting the needs of parishes and dioceses, and their high standards for software training and support," Hamilton added.
William Pressprich, President and CEO of ParishSOFT, said he was "delighted to become strategic partners with Our Sunday Visitor, Inc."
"We share a common mission - to serve the Church. ParishSOFTÌs software and web solutions are highly complementary to Our Sunday VisitorÌs envelope service, publications and content," he added.
David Rosenberg, Founder and Chief Product Architect for ParishSOFT, praised Our Sunday Visitor for its "excellent products and dedicated service that they extend to their customers."
"Over time, the ParishSOFT technology will provide substantial benefit to Our Sunday VisitorÌs customers as we introduce innovative new products that augment Our Sunday VisitorÌs existing business."
"This strategic partnership has value for both companies," said Greg Erlandson, President of Our Sunday VisitorÌs Publishing Division. "We know that the thousands of parish customers we currently serve can benefit from this cutting edge church management software. We believe that ParishSOFTÌs web services will provide effective means for churches to communicate with their parishioners, including delivering OSV-provided content to targeted audiences, such as parents of those receiving sacraments and those participating in various ministries."
The ParishSOFT software offers the Our Sunday Visitor Offering Envelope Division the means for parish customers to update their parishioner lists on line. It also offers an effective means to respond to a growing interest in electronic funds transfer at the parish level, integrating electronic giving with traditional offering envelope giving.
AmericanChurch, the Youngstown, OH-based subsidiary of Our Sunday Visitor, will enjoy these same benefits in serving their Protestant church customers.
ParishSOFTÌs software and web services provide innovative new means of distributing the content and training materials of Our Sunday VisitorÌs Publishing Division directly to parish staff and parishioners via e-mail and the parish web site.
Taken together, these benefits will integrate Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., and AmericanChurch more closely with their current and future church customers and strategically position both in an emerging market.
ParishSOFT LLC, provides software and web solutions to empower churches, dioceses, schools and other organizations to organize, communicate and collaborate. ParishSOFT began operations in 1998. Today, with a staff of 40, ParishSOFT serves 3,100 churches and 16 dioceses. For more information, visit www.parishsoft.com.
Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., was founded in 1912. Besides the production and distribution of offering envelopes, it also produces six periodicals, including a national weekly newspaper, stewardship resources, and more than 500 active book and religious education titles. For more information, visit www.osv.com or www.offeringenvelopes.com.
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