My dream for providing content and online community for youth workers is growing like crazy! It honestly is gets a bit frustrating to have all these ideas from the Lord while having no budget to pull it all off. Sure, I could litter this site with advertising and product reviews that often aren’t really worth your money; I could create a members area and charge for “premium” access; I could even just ask for financial donations. But all of those options are directly opposed to why I make youth ministry resources available for free in the first place, or they suck up what little time I have and leave no time for working on the projects they’re supposed to fund.
What kind of projects do I have in mind? Without revealing too much too quickly, how about a free missions trip this winter with your students and many other youth groups all over the country? (Yes, that’s right, a free missions trip sponsored by ministries like Dare 2 Share, YouthBytes and Xtreme Youth Alliance! Your kids will not pay a dime.) Two other big ideas are still in early development stages and one is in queue to be released within a couple weeks.
So, I’m excited to launch MinistryWebsites.biz, a small business that provides state-of-the-art websites to ministries using one of the most cutting-edge and user-friendly management systems I have ever seen. Seriously, this commercial system makes it so easy and simple to create and manage a slick website that your grandmother could figure it out in less than 5 minutes.
My hope is that this side-project will generate enough income to support all the youth ministry projects here at Life In Student Ministry and allow my time to be focused on development instead of fund raising.
If your ministry wants to establish a web presence for communication, MinistryWebsites.biz is the perfect solution. Check out the features, the free web designs, and the pricing. While you’re there, sign up for a FREE 3-page website.
P.S. If you’re a professional web designer or a php/mysql programmer and are willing to donate some time toward these upcoming youth ministry projects, please contact me. I need your help!
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From Ministry Questions.com...
October 21st, 2008 at 8:32 am
I love this idea Tim. I’ve already signed up for my free site to try as I’ve been looking to upgrade from my free Wordpress.com blog to something with more features.
October 21st, 2008 at 8:40 am
Yep. Teasing us again with the not revealing too much too soon. ;). Seriously, though, you’re doing great stuff here. Thanks!
October 21st, 2008 at 10:36 am
I signed up for the free website and all i received was this…
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October 21st, 2008 at 10:39 am
@ Jeff Smith: Hmm… weird. Your request came through, though. You should get an email back sometime this afternoon.
October 21st, 2008 at 9:02 pm
hey my company, shift creative, does website design… our basic church website is custom built from the ground up, includes unlimited storage/emails, is easily updateable by you or we’ll make updates for you, includes a domain and hosting for a year, podcasting/video-podcasting/live streaming, and it includes all custom graphic deigns…. all for the base price of $500.
if any of you are interested get in touch… if you mention tim schmoyer we might be able to throw in a few extras
brian@shiftcreative.org is my email