Smarter Sheep

Reflecting back over the last year and the milestones that we have reached as well as the ones that we have missed, we are revising our strategies. It’s always hard to walk a balance between allowing staff and volunteers to utilize web tools for ministry and also protect them and the organization from problems. At the end of the day, I’ve decided that it’s more important to weigh on the side of buidling relationships however you can and getting the gospel message out. So with that in mind here are a few of my notes for the months ahead:

We want to create on-ramps rather than roadblocks for our staff and volunteers to be involved in
community and relationships using the internet as one of their tools.

1. Rebuild our site to make it more useful and more professional.
- Utilize more of the tools that other churches and ministries are successfully using.
- Utilize more of the community tools that are already available on the internet.

2. Train people in utilizing the internet for relationships and ministry
- Blogging classes, myspace and facebook type communities etc.

3. Encourage our staff and volunteers to use the tools.
- We manage the backend hard stuff and professional look and feel.
- Staff and volunteers just provide the fresh content.