# Who You Gonna Call?

### Why Your Church Needs an IT Person

### Section Overview

- But Why?
- How much is this gonna cost me?
- Nuts and Bolts
- Wrangling the 1's and 0's

### But Why?

WHY? Oh I will tell you why.

###### What do I do?

- Troubleshoot technical issues
- Maintain physical infrastructure
- Update software
- Setup Zoom calls
- Fix printers
- Develop websites
- Repair or replace obselete hardware
- And as always... other duties as assigned

###### But I can do those things!

- Can it scale?
- Is it secure?
- What happens when someone leaves?
- What happens when something breaks?
- How do you backup data?

- For a handfull of people it is possible to do all this on your own. - Growing your church means you can't ad-hoc everything. At a certain point you are going to need standards and structure to grow effectively. - Centralizing management of users allows for easier turnover. No more sharing passwords. - Replacing hardware is not always straight forward. You want the right tool for the job. - What is the disaster recovery plan? Last time backups were run? Do your backups work?

###### It's OK to be overwhelmed

### How much will this cost?

$$$

### Nuts and Bolts

Lets talk hardware

### Wrangling the 1's and 0's

Software to get things done