Its primary use completed, I later revamped it as a an extension of the Eastview Christian Church web site.  Though I wasn’t asked to, I did so to demonstrate what could be done as a pie on the sky site or if just pieces may want to be used on their web site.

I designed it to be a one stop shop for the Eastview Christian Church’s members as well as potential visitors.  No longer would one have to go to Facebook for this info, to another resource for the church directory, etc.

I also had added features that would aid classes and ministry teams and assist with communications.  Later, I would have liked to have added in Moodle (or similar), a software that many educational institutions to make classroom material, grading and the like.  The idea was to present information to those that couldn’t attend, have additional material to those that did, and to monitor progress so that ‘instructors’ could see where the class was at and determine what needed to change, to garner further understanding of a topic, or where to go when moving on.  Of course, those could be applied to the whole congregation and an aid to sermons.

Overall, I had hoped that the website would better the churches communication to its members and help with the training of lay people.  Yes, there would be training issues to fully utilize what was there, but new stuff usually does require training.  Yes, not all instructors would want to use the educational pieces, because it would require more work on their part.  Yes, a lot of the members wouldn’t take advantage of it.  But who do you blame?  If the information isn’t presented, then it’s the leadership’s, teacher’s or ministry team’s fault.  But if you put the information out there and people don’t use it, then the fault rest squarely on the members.

It went nowhere.  I’m not even sure anyone even looked at it.  I’m not upset if they didn’t as they didn’t ask for it.  I might be disappointed that no one probably even looked at it. As at the very least, the communications portion of it would be very beneficial.   And as I have always said, I don’t care if my idea isn’t used, do something; do something different if it isn’t working.

After seeing that there was no interest in the site, I offered the site name to Eastview Christian Church, in case they wanted to do something with it in the future.  Like my asking them if they wanted to use the site, asking them if they wanted the name did not generate a response either.  So the assumption I take is that there neither is nor was any interest in either.

Well, the corona virus thing struck.  And though I haven’t followed it much, I have heard that it is evolving.  Evolving always tickles my ear.  Ah.  Well, I got time and I decided to fire up the Eastview Connect web site and jump back on the Creation/Evolution bandwagon.  But I’m going to expand my scope some.  I’ll even dabble in theism more than I have in the past.

I’ll include topics about Biblical Archaeology, which come about as I have heard people talking about errors and inaccuracies in geography and history.  Some discussions about the “Church”, then and now will work its way in, and maybe even a little end times, though I’m not big on it (I believe it’s going to happen, but I don’t believe that many, if any, have it right).

I hope you can enjoy this site and my brand of humor and interest harnessing.  I’m not versed in good grammatical skills or spelling.  Actually, I take pride in my creative misspellings and whimsical grammatical sentencing.  I do generally do a spell check, contrary to what many believe, but after a round of furious typing and mental exhaustion, my eye strain and patience with my computers spell checking abilities usually just inclines me to hit enter to get through it.  And I figure it this way, if you can tell me the word I spelled wrong, then it was close enough that my communication to be effective.  If you find it too distracting, let me know and I’ll try to watch for errors more closely; or better yet, volunteer to proof read my material.