Ministry Blog

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 […]

I am making an effort to contact all the pastors of churches that we provide hosting for. Many of these churches have changed pastors, the people that have been maintaining the websites have left, or the churches have closed down. Eureka Baptist Church's website was set up after a missionary […]

I am still in triage mode trying to clean up the Baptist Ministries Database. About 35% of the almost 7000 ministries in the database have broken links, changed domains, or have closed their doors!  I "rescued" another domain today. The sad part is that I had rescued this same domain […]

After waiting for about 45 minutes without being picked up by customer service, I was able to connect to the internet. I lost connectivity again. I called back in and this time received a canned message that my Internet service was under scheduled maintenance from Midnight until 10 AM. Service […]

Woke up this morning, came up to computer room to check on systems. FIOS has no internet connectivity. Been on hold waiting for customer service rep for 15 minutes. Home phone is VOIP, not working. Hope this is something simple.