Ok, so this was one of those things that I do from 10pm to 3am that are completely because I want to learn how to do it.

I had seen pretty robust welcome tabs for several churches that I thought looked really cool and added an extra level to the Facebook Fan Pages, and I thought it would be pretty easy to create on myself. Essentially it’s just a one-page website with some extra restrictions. So I set out to dream up what it would look like.

Here’s the first iteration…incidentally, this is how most of my sites start out

And in the end, it looked like this:

Anyhow, after that I found a picture I liked for the main “header” and then worked to create the other smaller ones.

I wanted to basically give people a landing page for the four main ways Frontline connects socially: Facebook (“Latest News” tab), Twitter (all the campus twitter accounts), the Blogs (links to the campus blogs) and the sermons (links to the podcast and our youtube channel), and let people jump to one of our campus sites if they wanted to too. Anyhow, I thought it worked pretty well.

Check it out at facebook.com/frontlinedc (note, if you’re already a fan, facebook forces you to go to the wall first…but if you’re not a fan (or if you’re not logged in) you’ll see the welcome page first).

I had a lot of fun doing this, which was good, because I didn’t spend any work time doing it…just late at night on the weekend…ha.

I think the day will come where people eventually value your presence on Facebook just as much as they do your dedicated website, and this is a step in the right direction to making a good first impression.

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Had this thought today while thinking about Easter…

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.
-1 Corinthians 15:17-19

Basically that’s saying that if Christ wasn’t raised, then his death was powerless. We’re pretty much out of luck. Verse 19 is the key. If we don’t have hope in Christ’s resurrection we are pretty much living crazy lives. The things the Bible calls us to do are flat out crazy…if we don’t have the hope of salvation. But then we see verse 20…

But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
-1 Corinthians 15:20

We do have hope. The difference between insanity and Christianity is Christ (see what I did there? Hah.).

Just something to think about approaching Easter.

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For the past six or so years I haven’t lived in the same place for more than a year. Sure, I’ve been in the same general area (even same building for a few years in college) but each year I’ve been in a different place with different people.

I’m not sure if I like it or not, but it’s definitely what I’m used to. I did that a lot growing up too. Moving all over the place. I think it’s conditioned me to get antsy when I’m in a place for more than a year. The same thing applies to what I do, I think, not just where I live.

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I miss this place.

Got to hang out with the Gathering last night at AU. Definitely brought back memories and made me long for those years again. Oh well…

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Thought: One of the dangers of working in a church is that you can easily become surrounded by pastors, yet somehow be without a pastor.

It sure makes life and ministry a lot easier if you have a pastor.

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