Dear Friends:

We find it an honor to be recognized by the North American Division for web excellence in January 2004. In 2002 our Senior Pastor Fredrick Russell cast the vision that he wanted a church web site. I was fairly new to the church, but felt compelled to get involved to help make this a reality. I will never forget an evening meeting at Pastor Russell’s home because we wrote things on paper that we wanted to make a reality for our web site. The first thing we did was pray and after that we came up with a preliminary plan of action. We also looked at other churches web sites and wondered how ours could be different. I knew that I couldn’t do it all alone so I organized a web team. This was difficult because it was so new to everyone and we had to promote it to get the people involved.

The bottom line is that God has to work through hearts to be blessed by this site. Fancy graphics are good, but if you don’t have an evangelistic component to a site, people will use it to look to see who is preaching and read latest announcements.

We are one of the few Adventist churches that accept tithe and offering on line (securely) and God has blessed this. We also archive sermons on line so people can listen to them and be blessed.

I have a quote I put on our web ministry web page that says

“Building a website is easy. Building a good website is more difficult. Building a good website that people use on an ongoing basis is a commitment.” —June Dudley

May God continue to bless us all as we work in His Vineyard and proclaim the Good News of His coming.

Blessings,

Chip Dizard