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This proverb applies to most start-up stories, including ours.
Jens-Martin Rauen began developing the first version of ChurchTools in 2004 to organize the contact database of his own youth group in Elim Hamburg. The system was soon used to organize the contacts of the entire congregation.
In the following years, other congregations who heard about the system also asked to use it, and by 2010 several dozen congregations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France had ChurchTools as their internal system. Jens-Martin Rauen continued to develop the system and expanded its functionalities according to the needs of the churches.
In 2015, Matthias Huber joined the company as CEO and founded ChurchTools Innovations UG together with Jens-Martin Rauen. Since then, the company has been supporting more and more churches and therefore increased its staff in the areas of development, support, marketing and sales in 2016. The transformation into a limited liability company (ChurchTools Innovations GmbH) was the logical consequence.
In the coming years, we were to support more than 2500 churches and congregations around the globe, especially in German-speaking countries. Today, ChurchTools has 30 employees, 4 products and a strong vision to help churches and Christian associations live their mission in the best possible way with the help of innovative solutions.
Founding year
Team members
Products
Customers
ChurchTools was developed as a “sole proprietorship”
Word of mouth – more churches are using ChurchTools
ChurchTools Innovations UG is founded.
Transforning into ChurchTools Innovations GmbH
Grown to 10+ employees,
500 paying customers
Reached the mark of 1000 paying customers
ChurchTools in 7 languages, 18 staff members
New product: ChurchTools Finance,
new data protection function, ChurchTools Chat
2000 paying customers,
special support for church planting started
New Product: ChurchTools Finder,
New Product: ChurchTools Website.