Ministry Blog

I was contacted last week by Pastor Rawls of Grace Baptist Church in La Porte Texas. He said he was unable to get into his account to pay for his web hosting and wanted to update his credit card information.      I chuckled and told him that if he had […]

     Maureen and I had the pleasure of visiting Grace Baptist Church in Gun Barrel City Texas today. We had not visited the church in about four years or so and I had not been able to get in touch with the church via telephone.      The church is a […]

     I took some training today to stay on top of the latest plugins that are available for WordPress. There were some good ones that have been released, particularly one that can be used to drive traffic to some of the websites from the social media pages.      I have […]

     I am still trying to move our hosted churches off the old Website Baker Templates.      I was finally able to contact and move Friendship Baptist Church of Elon North Carolina (friendshipbaptistnc.com) off the old Website Baker templates and onto a WordPress installation this evening.        We have […]

We made some new friends.      Over the last several days Maureen and I have had the pleasure of opening our home to a couple (Daniel and Hannah Iwanowycz) that is chaperoning a group of students from Pensacola Christian College as they travel around the United States.      The group […]

Updating Websites           I received an email from Pastor Gelfand of Sewickley Lighthouse Baptist Church (SLBC) in Sewickley PA. He sent me a copy of the church’s calendar and asked me to put it up on their website.      I put their 2016 Calendar (pdf file) up on the […]

     I was contacted yesterday by Paul Pullen, a former pastor I put up a website for last year. Paul was no longer pastoring the church we put up that website for, but the church he was attending now (North Spoon Baptist Church in Poplarville Mississippi) wanted a new website. […]

       Back in 2009 in was approached by Josh Norton, a missionary to the Czech Republic. He wanted to set up a website for their ministry “Baptistické Centrum.”      We talked for a while and I registered a domain for them "baptistickecentrum.com." I set up the Website Baker templates […]

     WordPress came out with a major update a couple of days ago. The previous version of WordPress (4.4.2) had some critical security issues. Usually security bug fixes are applied automatically, however since there was a new major release, version 4.5 (and subsequent version 4.5.1) had to be applied […]