I recently revamped our church website (www.unitycrc.org). It’s not entirely complete yet, but it’s on its way. I took a lot of advice from your website (and others linked from it) and taught myself the basics of Moveable Type and CSS and overhauled the entire site using MT 3.15.

It is wonderful to have something so easy to update and change. We were paying way too much for a generic template site that limited so much of what we could do and started to look really bad and old. Then I switched to using MS Publisher to create the entire site and then upload it, but every time I made a change (like posting the latest bulletin or sermon), I’d have to nearly re-upload every page again. Not only that but the HTML code itself was so big and messy that too often it took way too long to load on a person’s first visit (or reload).

Obviously it is not as “flashy” as some other church websites, but it communicates what needs to be communicated in a way that isn’t distracting or disgusting.

There are, according to Barna, some bright spots on the herizon. Recently, he wrote about his forthcoming books: “Starting in 2005, these branded books will reveal what is happening in the emerging Church – not the postmodern, candles/coffee/couches types of anti-modern ministries, but the Revolutionary ministry that is percolating to the surface of American society through new forms of ministry such as the cyberchurch, house churches, marketplace ministries, and tribal faith experiences. While I will write a few books for the line – the first, Revolution, is scheduled to release in September 2005 – most of the books will be written by the new generation of spiritual leaders who are propelling the Church into the 21st century with an intense passion for God and a commitment to being the Church rather than worrying about protecting the forms and institutions that have been in place.”

May He build his church, despite all the bad Christian web sites. Keep up the hard work, brother!

House Church Network

There are, according to Barna, some bright spots on the herizon. Recently, he wrote about his forthcoming books: “Starting in 2005, these branded books will reveal what is happening in the emerging Church – not the postmodern, candles/coffee/couches types of anti-modern ministries, but the Revolutionary ministry that is percolating to the surface of American society through new forms of ministry such as the cyberchurch, house churches, marketplace ministries, and tribal faith experiences. While I will write a few books for the line – the first, Revolution, is scheduled to release in September 2005 – most of the books will be written by the new generation of spiritual leaders who are propelling the Church into the 21st century with an intense passion for God and a commitment to being the Church rather than worrying about protecting the forms and institutions that have been in place.”

May He build his church, despite all the bad Christian web sites. Keep up the hard work, brother!

House Church Network

Heal Your Church Website has a great article on designing your site to actually reach unchurched people. http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com/archives/001482.php

Heal Your Church Website has a great article on designing your site to actually reach unchurched people. http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com/archives/001482.php

HealYourChurchWebsite.com has a great article on what it means to have a church website and what we are all trying to do with that website. Heal Your Church Web Site: One in Three Adults Is Unchurched Means 1 in 3…

Dean Peters wrote a masterful essay yesterday about how continuing to add solid, fresh content to our websites will result in greater traffic to our websites and to our physical gatherings. I especially liked this excerpt: Not convinced? Let's …