You can save your church up to 20% by converting your monthly hosting plan to an annual subscription. Between now and the end of 2007, we're running a special sale for annual subscriptions. Anyone can take advantage of this sale, even if your plan doesn't expire for several months. Simply login to your account and renew your hosting plan now. The longer you subscribe, the more you save!

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Are you already on a yearly subscription plan? You can still take advantage of these great sale prices by renewing your hosting plan between now and December 31, 2007.

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posted by PastorJon @ 7:22 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

How big is your church? 50? 100? 5000? 20,000?

Regardless of your answer to that question, would you like to double your reach? Triple it? Imagine reaching one million people... How about a billion?

I pastor a small church of about 45 people on the coast of Maine. And yet, our congregation is doubled (or more!) each week by people who tune into our weekly sermon podcast. The reach of our ministry extends to Japan, China, Iran, Germany, South Africa and more. We estimate that we've had around 30,000 individual sermon downloads since April of 2006. (You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or by email.)

As of the writing of this article, the population of the world is estimated to be 6.6 billion people. In 2005, the the internet welcomed its one-billionth user, and the two-billionth user is expected to logon sometime during 2011. And yet, "most protestant churches in the USA average no more than 75 each week, with the largest percentage actually between 26 and 50." (Fast Facts, Holiness Today, September/October 2007, p. 32)

With internet usage growing so rapidly in the next 4 years, let me ask you this simple question: "What are you doing to spread the Gospel through the internet?"

Now is the perfect time to launch (or expand) your internet ministry. If your church isn't posting its sermons online, why not? If your pastor preaches from a manuscript or detailed outline, can you simply post the material? If not, is there someone in your church who can transcribe the messages for internet use? If you're already recording your sermons for internal distribution, why not encode those messages for podcast subscriptions?

Here at YourChurchWeb.net, we want to help you build your internet ministry. Take some time to look around and see the various products we offer--how can we help you bring the Gospel to more than a billion people?

posted by PastorJon @ 1:18 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

YourChurchWeb.net is committed to offering a quality product at an affordable price for churches and Christian ministries. We are continually working to offer the best sales, promotions, and even the ocassional price reduction in order to meet the needs of our customers. However, sometimes situations outside of our control force us to make slight increases in our prices.

On April 5, 2007, ICANN approved a price increase for certain registries (.com, .net, .org, .info, and .biz). While we've worked hard to minimize the effect of this pricing change on our customers, we will have to make nominal increases in our pricing in order to cover these costs. Effective October 15, 2007, the prices for these TLDs will be $8.99/yr (plus an ICANN fee of $.20/yr).

Thank you for choosing YourChurchWeb.net for all your web-hosting needs.

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posted by PastorJon @ 2:59 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

Between now and November 30th, get a brand new domain name at rock-bottom prices when you purchase any non-domain product. For only $1.99, you can register the first year of any .com, .us, .biz, .info, .name, .net, or .org domain. And, you also get all sorts of great freebies with your domain!

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posted by PastorJon @ 8:46 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

Last Friday, I got a piece of mail from a company called "Domain Registry of America." It looked like a bill for the domain renewal of one of my domains. "This is odd," I thought, "since all of my domains are registered through me!"

And then I remembered that one of my clients had emailed me a couple of weeks ago about this very same mailing. They wanted to know if they needed to pay that bill or not.

In reality, this particular piece of mail was not a bill, but an advertisement disguised as a bill. Basically, this company was hoping that I would fill out that thing that looked like a bill, and send my payment to them. In doing so, they would initiate a transfer of my domain, and I would become their customer. Domain Registry of America wanted to charge me $30 for a one year registration for my domain name. That's over $20 more than you would pay to register your name through YourChurchWeb.net.

(You may have seen similar sorts of mailings from all sorts of companies attempting to look like "the Yellow Pages." On closer look, most of those companies are fairly low-traffic online directories that charge exhorbitant rates to be listed with them.)

My point? Be very careful when you hand bills to your church treasurer. They may not recognize a legitimate bill from a solicitation--and you may find yourself agreeing to move your domain name, simply because you paid something that was designed to look like a bill.

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posted by PastorJon @ 8:43 AM 0 Comments Links to this post