One of the things we hope to accomplish on Church Growth Consulting is to encourage people to use the Internet to help people with not only their own church growth, but to help encourage church growth all over the world.  One of the ways to accomplish this is by starting blogs and websites that will appeal to to not only Christians, but also to pre-Christians.  A well chosen topic can provide opportunities to develop online relationships with people from all over the world and then develop opportunities to share the Good News of Jesus Christ.  By applying some simple SEO (search engine optimization) strategies and a little bit of time, we can create sites that will be found on the search engines and provide us with a steady stream of new people to reach for the Gospel.  As a demonstration of this principle we are starting a site called Political Events.  We will be working on this site to get a strong placement on the search engine results and a steady flow of traffic.

To get the site started we purchased a domain name from Good News Domains, (www.politicalevents.org), we took advantage of the free hosting plan (we will deal with the advertising banner across the header as this will allow us to operate the site for the cost of the domain name, which is $10/year), and we installed WordPress.

To give the site some foundation, we added RSS feeds from Political sites and some news sites as well.  We also included video feeds about politics and current events.  Here is what the site looks like today:

We will be working on the site by adding content and building links.  Once the site is established on the search engines we will start developing ways to utilize the site for the Kingdom of God and world wide church growth.

We are starting a couple of new blogs for web ministry here as part of our church growth consulting site.  One of the new sites is Church Growth (www.churchgrowthblog.com) and the other is Church Planting (www.churchplantingblog.com).  These site are being developed to research the latest ideas and principles in the fields of Church Growth and Church Planting.  They will also provide opportunites for people involved in the process to find support and share encouragement with one another.

It will take some time for these sites to begin to get traffic from the search engines.   Our initial focus with these sites will be doing the hard work of making them search engine friendly.  Once we begin to see some movement on the search engines we will change our focus and begin to set the sites up to fulfill the purpose we are creating them for, advancing the Kingdom of God.

We beleive these site will work well with the Church Growth Consulting site, the Church Web Master Online site, and the Web Ministry Online site.  We encourage you to visit all of our sites and pray that they will be a blessing to you.  If you have any questions feel free to contact us at any time.