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During the summer of 1996, Paul Schuster (Helpmate President) was presented with an opportunity from the associate pastor of his local church (7 Hills Church www.7hillschurch.tv - formerly Fellowship of Believers) to design and build for them a membership database system which would encompass membership, group/ministry activity and participation, contribution and pledge tracking, and attendance tracking. At the time, the church was rapidly growing. They had been using a well-known commercial church management software (CMS) program, but the staff was running into some real "headaches" and limitations with this system. Thus Helpmate was originally created to meet the need of a local body of believers. By the end of 1996, Paul’s local church was "up and running" on the very first version of the Helpmate church management software system.

Paul's God-given passion for equipping churches with technology solutions drove him to further mature the product, designing it to be adaptable to suit a vast array of church sizes, shapes, and denominations.  In early 1997, he began marketing the Church Helpmate product (originally under the product name "Pastor's Helpmate") exclusively through our website.  Churches from across the nation, and worldwide as well, began discovering the quality church management software and related services being offered by Helpmate.