Archive for October, 2006

One of the challenges I have with WordPress is how to successfully process content for our church website, that arrives as a Word attachment from others members of the Church. The sermons are generally fine to deal with, but the newsheet and church magazine are a challenge. The problem is that whilst I can use [...]

Assuming that the link works for a while, then please read this link from the local newspaper for Cheltenham Gloucestershire (UK)
I read and re read the article but I remained unsure of what it meant in places, as at times it was not clear to whom he referred to for example in the article.
I have [...]

Cartoon Church

I have often come across the Cartoon Church site, which is a WordPress powered blog whose author is based in the South of the UK . I do enjoy the cartoons. Here is one of the latest cartoon which I understand can be posted on blogs as long there is a reference to the CartoonChurch.com [...]

Here are a few of the WordPress plugins I have used for our church website at http://www.cambray.org.
Scripturizer is great for churches that often make references to Bible quotations on their sites, as our church does. It creates links to biblegateway.com.
Pages advanced allows the pages on the site to be searched as well as posts. It [...]

I found this link to a Church in Warwickshire, Castle Hill Baptist Church about 40/50 miles away from Cheltenham, Glos,UK. Imagine my surprise when I saw a picture of Pete Burns who used to worship with Cambray in the days before he was a minister. I liked the page with the plugins [...]

Well I presented the pray 4 the website with a powerpoint to the Church this Sunday morning. It seemed to acheive one objective from the encouraging the people in the church to see the potential for us to use the site for publicity and telling the good news in a variety of ways, e.g sermons mp3s, [...]

It is nearly there.
It will be the first time I have been at the front of the Church speaking in many, many years . True, I have been up singing with a few others many times  and maybe a few times reading from the Bible, but leading the intercessory prayer never in my memory.
I am [...]

Time management

One of the areas I need to know more about is how much time I allocate to the development and maintenance of the Church Website.
Most of the posts here will be of a personal or private nature.