Admins can blog too
Last night, as I poured over website revisions, I found myself becoming more and more frustrated in trying to master this over-whelming and complicated software that powers this website - Typo3. It's massive, it's powerful, and it's free!
I thought, "What's the use - no one uses the website anyway, so why bother?". But still I pressed on, trying to bring pages under submission, determined to understand why they didn't render as I intended.
As I was working on the Prayer Board page (yes, we have one - check it out, USE IT!) I began to remove sample content and hidden away in a database, far from the view of a website user, was a prayer request posted by the developers of the Prayer Board Module, the Web Empowered Church Team!
"May the Lord bring blessings that overflow upon those who carry the Gospel through this congregation. May your ministries be fruitful and may lives be transformed in Jesus' name. Amen"
A Prayer Request! - for First Free Will Baptist Church of Wagoner - from the WEC Team! Wow!!! Tears filled my eyes and I got "Jesus Bumps"! Yea - I know, it was "standard issue" in the module, but just "sample content"? I think not! I couldn't have discovered it at a better time. But wait, there's more.
This morning, while surfing the net, looking for textbooks that might help, I found a book about Typo3 written by the man who invented it - Kasper Skarhoj. He's Danish, he's a genius, and he's a Christian! In the preface of the book, he shares his testimony of his faith in Jesus Christ and how his faith led him to develop Typo3 and then just give it away - for free! No mass-marketing, no copyrights - just give it away to people who want to further the cause of Christ and His kingdom!
So, I'm committed and determined (thanks to the WEC Team & Kasper) to make our website "fruitful" and maybe even "life-transforming", as stated in the prayer request.
I envision a website where Andrew's Hands is set into action at the press of a button. A website which brings us together as a church family, not just on Sundays, but also during the week via the Forum. A website where we can grow in The Word using the Devotional Journal. A website where we can introduce Jesus to the entire World Wide Web! Afterall, my motto has always been "just introduce 'em to Jesus - He'll take it from there!"
Be blessed!
Mary
