A big hug and thank you to all of you who responded to the poll asking you which days of the week you wanted to receive the twice a week newsletters from the Effective Church Communications Ministry.
The very clear preference results of the survey are MONDAY and THURSDAY! So that is what we will do!
Your comments were also extremely helpful and the things you asked for gave me great ideas, some of which I will be implementing right away for content. I did not expect the many kind, wonderful, encouraging things many of you said in the final comments and I can't tell you how much joy and strength that gave me.
A new newsletter format is coming
Maybe this week, but by next week for sure I'm going to be changing the format of the newsletter. I have been using AWeber because it allowed me to send out the automatic emails when I created new material for the site.
But I never really liked the program--lots of glitches and problems and plugin conflicts, after looking at various programs I'm going back to Constant Contact, the newsletter system I started out with. I like the things I can do with it a lot and I'm excited to share them with you. Please click on "show images" when you get the new one.
Thanks again for your input on the newsletter and I praise God for all of you!
May He give you joy and strength as you serve Him today!
Yvon
Yvon, I have been on vacation and trying to keep up with the communications for the church, and have a lot to do to catch up. I am looking at moving our website to a secure program. I see you are using Word Press and wondering if this is a good option for our smaller, but growing church.
Mary,
I really like WordPress and have used it for years. The host I use for my website is https://www.agathongroup.com/ They are an incredible group of DEDICATED Christians–I’ve known them from the earliest days of the web (some of their people built some of the very first Christian websites). They provide incredible personal support also.
One other thing–I really like http://www.churchthemes.com for their WordPress church themes. Also really good people there.
I have on my list some articles/advice on websites and you’ve motivated me to get it done sooner rather than later. I cannot recommend enough however that a church have the primary work done within the church.
I will do more on this soon. Feel free to ask more question specifically on it.
Blessings to you!
Yvon