Ministry Blog

     One of the aspects of our ministry is what you could call "domain returns." I haven't really talked about this in the past, but this is an integral part of our ministry.       We “rescued” the domain lakevalleybaptist.org back in 2006. The “Domain Rescue Mission” was started when I […]

     The Global Impact Celebration at Lavon Drive Baptist Church (Garland Texas) finished last night with some great preaching by Dr. Ed Gibson. Dr. Gibson served as a missionary with Baptist International Missions (BIMI) in Japan, and then joined the BIMI board. He preached on Grace last night. It was […]

     Today is the last day of the Lavon Drive Baptist Church Missions Conference (Global Impact Celebration).      This morning the Missionaries went to Sunday School classes to present their mission fields. Our (Crusaders) class was blessed with a presentation from Tyler and Sarah Anderson, missionaries with ABWE to Romania. […]

     Last night Lavon Drive Baptist Church held a missions banquet and missionary Christmas celebration for our visiting missionaries. We had the pleasure of attending the GIC banquet with Pastor Duane and Lori Myers of Calvary Baptist Church in Mesquite Texas. Calvary Baptist Church is one of the first churches […]

Global Impact Celebration (GIC) In Home Connection      Last night Lavon Drive Baptist Church had their "In Home Connection" )day 2 of the GIC Missions Conference. Our class had the pleasure of meeting with Steve and Vanessa Morror (and little luke their son). The Morror family is on depution, through […]

Global Impact Celebration      Last night was the kickoff of the Global Impact Celebration (GIC) at Lavon Drive Baptist Church in Galrand Texas. Global Impact Celebration is Lavon Drive's annual missions conference. The conference is set up differently than most conferences. We went out and set up our display yesterday […]

     Part of the WordPress disaster recovery training I attended this week brought some good resources to light. One of the excellent tools allows me to monitor each WordPress website I host and maintain to see what versions of WordPress are installed, as well as what plugins and themes are […]

I have been taking webinars this week on WordPress security. We are hosting about 100  websites at this time. As I go through the security logs on our websites, I can see the various attempts that are being made on the websites we host. All WordPress websites are under continuous attack. If […]

Working on updating the display for the upcoming Global Impact Celebration at our home church (Lavon Drive Baptist Church) in Garland Texas. The statistics and website examples are at least five years old. 

The last three days we have had the pleasure of having Dr. Nancy Shields of Toolkit Ministries Inc. stay with us. We are hosting her websit (toolkit-ministries.com). In addition to the fellowship, I had the opportunity to provide some training on her WordPress website. I was also able to help […]