MinistryTracker.com started as YouthTracker.net. It was designed in 2004 by Mark Alway, the Director of Skagit Valley Youth Dynamics. After writing his first web-based software tool as a research project at the University of Washington in 1995, Mark was hired to begin educational software development at the University of Washington. Mark was the lead software developer on the nationally recognized Catalyst Project that serviced all students, staff, and faculty at the University with online educational tools.
Mark was an instructor at the Art Institute of Seattle for three years and has since been serving as an instructor for the University of Washington Educational Outreach program since 2001. Mark teaches courses in SQL, PHP, and database-driven Web sites. Mark also reviews course materials and edits online course documents for various courses.
In 1998 Mark became a volunteer with Youth Dynamics Adventures, an adventure-based ministry. After volunteering his summers with Youth Dynamics Mark felt God calling him into full time youth ministry with Youth Dynamics. In 2004 Mark moved to Mount Vernon, WA where he became the Director of Skagit Valley Youth Dynamics. Skagit Valley Youth Dynamics serves the communities of Burlington, Mount Vernon, and Sedro Woolley as a para-church outreach targeting the harder-core students in our communities.
One of the first things that Mark did was write YouthTracker.net as a tool for all Youth Dynamics communities to track their students, staff, and attendance. Since that time YouthTracker.net has gone international with various churches and ministries around the country using YouthTracker.net to track their students. YouthTracker.net has been upgraded regularly with new features and requests from our users. We have recently made the change in our name to MinistryTracker.com, and changed some of the features so a church can fully utilize all the tools we have to offer. Our team strives to constantly improve MinistryTracker.com to make it the best available software for ministry.
We hope that you will find MinistryTracker.com as valuable a resource as thousands of other ministries have all around the world.
MinistryTracker.com is written as Perl CGIs and mod_perl modules. We use the leading open source database software and a leading hosting company that provides backup power systems, file backups, intrusion detection, etc. We have had 99.96% uptime in the last 6 years and strive to offer 99.999% uptime with our services. MinistryTracker.com is secured using 256-bit SSL encryption and well designed secure coding techniques. Your information is safe from hackers as well as natural disasters.
“Thanks for this great product; life is so much easier administratively using YouthTracker.net. You definitely know the needs of youth workers.”
- Youth Worker
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Unlimited Access and Staff
Access MinistryTracker.com from any computer with Web access with virtually any current browser. You can access MinistryTracker.com from anywhere in the world. No per computer licenses. Staff can work from home while others update MinistryTracker.com from work.
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Never run out of disk space. You can store your data and photos on our servers so you don't have to worry about buying and installing new disks.
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