Webmaster Gary Saunders

It is both a privilege and honor to be recognized by the North American Division with the December 2005 eChurch Award. The vision to create our church website was originally conceived by a group of young adult members within the communication department. In this exciting age of information technology, the concern grew that our church’s mission and purpose wasn’t being fully maximized. Therefore a committed and arduous task was initiated to both develop and launch a highly effective and efficient website.

Gary Saunders, proprietor of GSWEBMEDIA.COM and Praizevision attends Mount Vernon Seventh-day Adventist church and volunteered to develop a custom web solution to enhance what is now known as the “Mount Vernon Web Media Experience”. Gary Saunders a network administrator, computer programmer, and sound reinforcement engineer enlisted the services of CMCGRAPHICDESIGN.COM to assist with the layout/graphics for the website. After the layout was completed GSWEBMEDIA.COM solutions built a custom Content Management System for this media rich website. Phase I of the vision was eventually realized in September 2005 when the website was officially launched.

Shortly after the launch of our website, The Mount Vernon Seventh-day Adventist Church Communication Department decided to enhance the website by adding a new network infrastructure to support our ambitions to do live audio and video streaming. Gary Saunders designed the new infrastructure and enlisted the help of Nord Downer (Communications Department Head), Anthony Ivor Hall, and Lenny Williams to wire the church for Internet and to install our new media broadcast center inside of the church.

We are fast approaching Phase II of the web media plan with the proposed video streaming in 2006. We have already witnessed the mighty movement of God via this web ministry both internally and externally as many individuals are giving their lives and time to God. This initiative “The Mount Vernon Web Media Experience” is designed to tear down the walls of the church and to open our ministry to a global audience. With this understanding, The Mount Vernon Seventh-day Adventist Church Communication Department has adopted the theme “working locally to reach globally”.

We pray that each person that visits the Mount Vernon Web Media Experience will also experience Christ.