Here is the announcement made on the FIU site...please post questions and comments...
A New “Building” for our Community
I started going to my home church in 2000. There were 100 people the first time we visited, and the church was meeting in a room at a day care center. Within a few months the church had grown to several hundred, and we moved our Sunday services into an elementary school building. Then in 2005 the pastor made an exciting announcement- we were going to start building our own building! Today the church is in a building seating 1500 people with room for church offices, the youth group, and children’s classes.
No one minded leaving that day care or the elementary school, because we all knew the church was not a building or a place, but a community.
In a similar, this on-line community is also growing, and the growth process is a journey- a journey I am excited to be a part of! Our community- the website currently known as FaithItUp.com – has also seen a lot of growth and change. There was a name change (new “building”) six months ago from 24hrChristianSpace.com to FaithItUp.com. Just last month, and change of management from Manny Ramos to myself and my company. The site is growing up, changing, and maturing. The journey continues, and it will be fun to see where the next few years will take us!
Today we (myself, the Christian.com team, and the FaithItUp leadership team) are announcing the next steps in our journey as a community. We will be re-launching the community as “Christian.com.” Christian.com is arguably the best Christian domain name in the world, and is something I am honored that the Lord has entrusted to me. I believe that together we can make Christian.com not only the best Christian domain name, but the best on-line Christian community! The current Christian.com site already receives a lot of web traffic each month, so having this URL will help the community grow into one of the largest and best Christian social networks in the world.
Joining the Christian.com community with us will be another community you are probably familiar with – HisHolySpace.com. FaithItUp and HisHolySpace are similar sites in many respects, so the new Christian.com site will include the best from both of these sites. The old Christian.com website has members as well, so how exciting to me that we can demonstrate the unity of the Body of Christ by uniting three communities of Christians together as one!
To accommodate the merged community of 50,000 members, and looking towards growth to 100,000 members and beyond, we will also be reorganizing the administration of the site to better support the community. Instead of a single administrator, there will be a team of Site Admins. Joining me on the initial Site Admin team will be Jeff Broderick, the original founder of HisHolySpace, and D.D. Skreamer, who has already been serving the FIU community. Additional community members from both HisHolySpace and FaithItUp will be serving on the site Advisory Team, which will include Site Admins, Site Moderators, and Site Contributors. Thank you in advance to the initial Advisory Team for agreeing to serve the new Christian.com community!
With the growth of the church came change, and the change was tough for a little while, but in the end the community of believers was better equipped to minister to one another and continue the journey of spiritual growth together. I am excited about this next chapter for this community, and hope you will continue the journey with us and see what great things the Lord has in store!
God bless,
Lee Raney
President
Christian.com