Our Story!

 

We at Planning appreciate your interest! I am Tom Metz, the founder of this Saas (Software as a Service). The service we provide today was originally born out of necessity at the church my family and I helped plant many years ago.

I began leading the multimedia team at that church the summer of 2002, and soon discovered how stressful Sunday mornings could be due to communication disconnects between the bands, the teaching team, the artists, and the tech crew. I knew there must be an easier way to plan and communicate.

In 2003, I felt led to develop a prototype of a "Planning" tool, and introduced it to our church. Six months later, a "public" version was launched as www.Planning. Since then, the site has evolved thanks to feedback from churches all over the world, and a team of designers, developers, and support personnel that are considerably more talented than the founder. :)

 

Worship Sense, Inc. (our official company name) is headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina, which is a stones-throw distance from Charlotte.

We hope your church finds Planning a useful tool in planning, organizing, and communicating in your ministry. Our goal for Planning is to assist you in expanding God’s kingdom. It is truly an honor and privilege for our team to serve you and Jesus Christ in this capacity.


Our Technology

The servers that power Planning are located in a datacenter run by the experts at RackSpace. Rackspace hosts mission-critical apps for the worlds leading companies, and provides “fanatical” service when it comes to ensuring our server environment is up and well maintained. For more than eleven years, we have invested significant resources into RackSpace's managed hosting services in order to maintain high availability access. Their redundant Internet connectivity, power, and security for all of its data centers helps Planning achieve a goal of 100% uptime. If you're curious, you can check our recent "uptime" history and current status of our services at https://status.worshipplanning.com/

Planning proudly works alongside these fine businesses to bring you the most proficient and reliable product available:



Amazon Web Services
CCLI SongSelect™
Rackspace
Proclaim
OnSOng
Twilio
Spotify
LifeWay Worship
Church Community Builder


Aliance Partners

As part of our ongoing efforts to support the larger community, Planning has formed a partnership alliance with the following organizations to serve their growing needs in God’s kingdom:

Planning proudly works alongside these fine businesses to bring you the most proficient and reliable product available:



Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, International
Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
South Carolina Baptist Convention
Church CO-OP
Aidan University


If your multi-church oragnaization would like to learn more about how a partnership alliance works, please contact us at (866) 414-2505.