Speakers: Karolyn Hart, President IHUBApp
Karolyn Hart: Hello, my name is Karolyn Hart, and I am the founder and President of InspireHUB, the company that has created IHUBapp. I'm so pleased to tell you that today we are bringing our product into the US market for churches. A little bit about me, years ago, when I left for college, it was to go to Bible College and I was seeking God's will for my life. Now, the very first thing that we all know is that one should be careful about praying and asking God to use you however he sees fit. And so it was that although I was in Bible College, I ended up being recruited and working for some of the world's largest financial services firms, and that led me into a career in IT technology and doing large scale implementations, something that I could have never, ever envisioned for myself. Now, the interesting thing about that is, if I'm being really transparent here, during that season, I remember wondering why on earth was God putting me here. This isn't where I wanted to be. I used to make a joke when people would even ask, what do you mean you went to Bible College and now you're in technology? I would say, well, I guess I put the 'IT' in fai-IT-h. Now, all these years later, God has taken me on an incredible journey, and it has been a journey of faith every step of the way. We built a product really that helped serve churches. Not only did I go to Bible College, but I was inspired because my father is a minister. And then while at Bible College, I ended up marrying a minister's son who I met there. And so to say that the ministry is a part of the DNA of our family would be an understatement. I know firsthand what it means to really want to do good and to do all the things that you desire in your heart for your church, and not having the resources. And so as we were building this platform, it was really with both my father-in-law and my father in mind that I wanted to create a platform that would really help them. Fulfill the mission on their heart, the great commission, the best, the best mission we could all have. And so what you will find with iHUBapp and our technology, is that it has really been designed to provide you a peace of mind. It allows you to have a place where it can not only be your website, if you already have one, no worries, you can use our technology for many different reasons, including volunteer communities and engagement and helping bring in a safe place for all your members to meet. One of the things that our clients, and we do have churches in Canada who are using us, tell us they really appreciate about our platform is how much time it is saving them. The way it works is you create a post inside the platform and it will automatically send out notifications to your members and it will automatically build a personal newsletter based on the different channels that your members subscribe to. So if you have that youth mom, she can subscribe to youth if she sings in the choir, she can subscribe to the choir, and she can also subscribe to a daily devotional. And each week, our system will automatically curate a newsletter for her based on the things that are important to her. Now, we are offering a great deal on all of this. There is a cost to building technology, hosting it, maintaining it, making sure it's safe, stay safe. But I am so pleased that we are providing such a great discount. Usually, the cost of the, the system that we've created is about $200 a month, USD, and we are providing 75% off to churches who sign up and are looking to do this. In addition to that, we are also offering some free consultation and design all to help you in your ministry. I am so excited to bring this to you, and I am hoping that you will really have a lot of engagement from your members and that this is truly, if this is something that you have been saying, hey, we need to be able to be more efficient, we need to be wise stewards, we need to figure out a way to engage beyond Sunday, then I hope that this helps you do that.
