Part two of our Web Ministry transformation series on Share Your Church looks at the story of your church.  This is a much more encompassing view of your church’s story that is traditionally thought.  On a church’s web brochure the church story would consist of the history of the church.  When you look at a web ministry the church’s story is much, much more.  On a ShareYourChurch site the church story consists of

• staff blogs – one for each staff member

• member testimonies – can be written or video testimonies (not necessarily just salvation testimonies, but also how God is moving in their lives right now)

• member articles – articles that members write to share their feelings, thought, opinions

This way your site is updated on an extrememly regular basis and new content is constantly being added.  This keeps the front page fresh and allows visitors to your site to always have something new to read.

Incorporating member aticles allows your church to share it’s faith in new and exciting ways all the time.  From economics to politics to a brand new gadget, the article area allows people to relate modern events, activities, and items to their faith and Christian worldview.

The member testimony area allows people to share spiritual insights, Biblical interpretations, experiences that have drawn them closer to Christ.  This area will be the hardest to get going, but once it has begun should be the fastest growing area of your ministry site.

Staff blogs should be the easiest to omplement and to steadily grow.  Simply have each of your staff write an article each week for your church’s e-newsletter (or print newsletter) and incorporate this article into the website.

Looking at your church-story in a ministry focused perspective automatically increases the ministry that your web site becomes, not only to other members of your church, but also to the greater community at large.  Sharing your church-story is truly one of the biggest ways to ShareYourChurch.