Picture-Directory.com began about seven years ago when I was asked to put together a church directory for our church. Our Pastor thought it would be nice to have a picture directory instead of just a standard name and address book. I readily agreed, just knowing that this would be a snap. I thought surely with all the software that is out there that I could find a program that would make this easy...  Well, I never found that "easy program", so I said, "I'll create my own program!". There are many photo companies that will take pictures for churches and other groups and provide them with a photo directory. But for many reasons, cost for one, frequency of updates, etc...., folks want to do it themselves.

Our congregation was really happy with the results of the directory and many people told me that I should try and market the software. I thought, "Why not?". So initially, I started uploading to various shareware websites and I would get an occasional check in the mail to register the program. I named the software after our church, Grace Evangelical Free Church. Thus, I called the program, GEFC Directory.

During that time one of my customers, a former IBM employee, as I am as well, wanted to work with me. I needed the help to support the product, so we came up with an agreeable arrangement. He became the start of the support team and now we had the ability to be a full service company and GEFC Directory started to be more than just a simple program written for a single church. It has been a steady source of income ever since. It's now in it's third release (GEFC Directory 2.1).

We received much positive feedback and suggestions for improvements to this program and wanted to continue to enhance the functionality, expand the marketability of it, and offer related services, like an on-line directory, as well....

So, about three years ago, We decided to start focusing more energy into this company... We had the opportunity to work on the development of Picture-Directory Online (PD Online) (The Online Pictorial Directory) with the largest church in Alaska and they were instrumental in helping us understand the needs of a large church and we believe every requirement that they had was addressed in the first version of PD Online. And they have been a happy customer ever since.

About eight months ago, we had the opportunity to begin working on, and just recently completed, the second release of PD Online. We worked with a very large privately-owned land resource business that owns 500,000 acres of timberland and natural resources, has a global network of sporting lodges, a comprehensive wildlife management division, a state-of-the-art Southern yellow pine lumber facility, commercial and residential real estate, ecological services including mitigation, conservation and species banking. This partnership has helped bring the Picture-Directory.com company from primarily a church products and services company to a full service organizational directory company for any type of organization; employee, law firm, government, school, church, fraternity, membership, or club, etc.

So Welcome to the future of Organizational Directories for Any Type of Organization!  

• Picture-Directory for Windows™
• Picture-Directory Online™

We know that a good product becomes a great product when you listen to your customers, and so we are listening! Any suggestions are welcome! If you have a moment drop us an email.


To His Glory,

Keith D. Bartman
Software Engineer
Founder of Picture-Directory.com