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.