Ministry Blog

Our daughter has been sick for over a month. The doctors can’t figure out what is wrong. We have a 6:15 appointment this morning for a diagnostic (the fourth?). Please pray that the Lord gives the doctors wisdom, and that they can identify and heal her body! Source: Cyber-Missions Blog

FamilyNet International (our ministry) has sent out over 23,000 Bible correspondence course lessons over our years of ministry. The cost for postage (particularly for our international students) is high. I called and spoke to Bill Shade (General Director) today about the possibility of putting their courses online. SOL has been […]

On Saturday I was thinking about the need to keep in touch with all the Pastors I have had contact with. A search for contact software (also called CRM – Customer Relationship Management) turned up software that would cost upwards of $100 (ACT!, Goldmine etc).  On Sunday morning I was […]

The following is part an email I received regarding a domain that was "rescued" in June. The email came in yesterday.Bob Hoffman, I would first like to commend and thank you for your efforts to rescue  domain names from those who would like to use them for ungodly purposes. I  didn’t […]

Entertaining pornographer's unaware? I ended up rescuing another domain yesterday. I really don't want to post specifics here, as it is not my intention to embarrass any church or individuals. I received a phone call this morning from a brother in Tennessee. He was the webmaster for his church, and […]

We received a card from Pastor Paul Taylor after our visit to Pleasant Valley Baptist Church:Dear Bro Bob and Maureen,     What a blessing and encouragement you folks were to us Sunday. Thank you for being a blessing to the smaller congregations and ministries. Glory, only glory will reveal your investment.     […]

We received a card from Pastor Paul Taylor after our visit to Pleasant Valley Baptist Church: Dear Bro Bob and Maureen,      What a blessing and encouragement you folks were to us Sunday. Thank you for being a blessing to the smaller congregations and ministries. Glory, only glory will reveal […]

I am currently looking at the option of taking classes to get certification as a MSCA-Security (Microsoft Certified Administrator). I look at this as the same as language school. While I can speak the language enough to get by, this will help to fulfill a need that churches have out […]

As I contemplated the outage of Thanksgiving Day, the Lord impressed on my heart that I was full time in the ministry. I had a bunch of other sidelines that were taking time to keep up. They were not bearing fruit, the were not part of the ministry. When the […]