Blogs for Evangelism - Part 1

One of our goals on Church Blog is to demonstrate how people can use the Internet to have an impact on the Kingdom of God. This can be done by starting blogs and websites for believers, but also by starting blogs and websites that are more geared towards evangelism. By learning the basic principles of setting up a blog and some simple SEO (search engine optimization) techniques it is possible to get sites started that have the potential to reach people all over the world. To demonstrate this principle we are starting a site called Current Events Online. We will work on this site to get a good return on the search engines and then we will develop ways to use the site as an evangelistic tool.

For this demonstration, we have purchased a domain name from Good News Domains, (www.currenteventsonline.com), we have chosen the free hosting plan (we will be dealing with a banner across the top of our site but by using the free hosting we can run this site on the $10/year we are paying for the domain name),and we installed WordPress.

To make the site readable we have added some quick content to the site by using six RSS feeds from various news agencies and by adding video feeds of current events from all over the world. Here is what the site looks like today:

We will further develop the site by writing articles on current events from a biblical perspective and adding them to the site. Our hope is to present a balanced well thought out approach to sharing our viewpoint in a way that will encourage discussion and allow us to build relationship with our readers. This site will start to reach its potential after it begins to show up on the search engines and we will keep you posted on it’s progress on Church Blog.