CDN Today is a community of Christian churches and individuals. The combination of free web hosting, social interaction, direct messaging between users, user-activity streams and discussion forums make this one of the most exciting opportunities available to Christians today.
We provide both a “Facebook-like” social interaction & fully-functional website hosting. All for free to qualified individuals and Christian organizations. (Any registered user may request a free website.)
There are many reasons why some individuals and churches have not begun an Internet ministry. Here are a few of the most common:
- Failure to understand the dynamics of the Internet
- Lack of technological knowledge & skills
- Cost of building & maintaining a web site
This community (& network of websites) is designed to overcome these limitations. We want to help you go, beyond the limits that have been in place for a long time. Here is our reasoning:
- Internet Dynamics: In the past, many people either did not see the need for learning what the Internet is all about or they felt that it was too technically involved for them to learn. Fortunately, many of those folks now use email and browse the websites that they feel are both safe and valuable. But some still do not have a website to support their ministry or organization. But just having a static webpage is NOT Internet Ministry! In order for ministry to take place, there has to be INVOLVEMENT. An advertisement is one-way communication. And the people that you want to serve are not “into” such an approach. If they cannot participate, respond, comment or share in the discussion, they are not interested. So, we encourage all of the sites created here to INTERACTIVE. Draw the user into the communication. Be open to comments (even those with which you may disagree). And then RESPOND to those users in love and with an attitude of respect. All the users of this system deserve that kind of treatment. Don’t you agree?
- Technical Skills: To enable EVERYONE to build and maintain a quality website – regardless of the level of skills they may (or may not) have, we are using world-class software. Our state-of-the-art WordPress publishing platform is the same as what major corporations such as Yahoo, CNN, EBay, PlayStation, People Magazine, The New York Times – and many others – use for their online communications! WordPress is both easy to use and a professional website platform! (Learn more at http://wordpress.org/about/) Also, our founder, Ray Waldo is known as the “Bishop of Technology.” Ray provides technical support via his http://raywaldo.com website and his personal interactions on this network. If you need it, help is just a click away.
- Cost of a Website Hosting: All websites build on this network are FREE. We have not intention of charging for any of our services here. All costs involved in hosting this network will be borne by Ray Waldo and the CDN Today. As traffic levels increase, it may be necessary to find external funding in order to pay for the increased bandwidth and capacity but we will ONLY consider advertisement, etc when it is essential to maintain the full functionality of the network. It is our intention to ALWAYS provide the highest quality online Christian environment at no cost to either website owners or their (our) users!
