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Summer, 2001
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Just a Thought...
By Staff Writer Sharon Barrett
Philippians 1:23 b " I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body."

To depart and be with Christ is to die and go to heaven. This scripture makes it very clear we will join Christ when the time comes. But in the meantime it is more important that we stay here and help one another, to help others come to a understanding of the LORD. Preach the word, be a true friend, be a blessing to others. Won't you put God first in your life by sharing Him?

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Inspired by God
For Those Who Dream
Nancye Sims' work has been proudly presented in Handmaidens, and she has put together two sites which feature many more of her wonderful writings.

Cindy's Inspiration
Cindy has gathered some wonderful poetry and prose to uplift and inspire... Spend some quality time on her site.

RibTickler
Marilyn Janke is a published author. The website contains humorous articles for Christian women (the men are allowed to read them since they contributed the rib!). Be sure to join her "Free By E-Mail" list.

The Christian Connection
The Christian Connection Newsletter is an interdenominational outreach to the Internet Christian Community. Its primary purpose is to help Christians grow in the grace, knowledge and power of Jesus Christ and to provide opportunities for the Body of Jesus Christ to function together as Prayer Warriors through the numerous prayer requests listed in the Newsletter. Newsletter articles are written by Gloria J. Moore.

Julias Home Tweet Home
A place to uplift and encourage you--- sprinkled with fun! This site is dedicated to pastor's wives and church women's ministry directors but should be enjoyed by all Christians, especially Christian women.

SHORT-TERM AND CAREER CHRISTIAN WORKERS CAN NOW POST THEIR PRAYER NEEDS ON UNIQUE WEBSITE
The website - http://www.ePrayerLetter.com - is now up and running
By Dan Wooding

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA (ANS) - A unique website - www.ePrayerLetter.com -- has been established for career missionaries and short-term Christian workers to post their prayer needs.

"Our new site - www.ePrayerLetter.com -- allows Christian workers to create and maintain their own personal missions-focused website by using easy-to-access online forms," explained Southern California-based founder, Bill Wells, a former businessman who now, along with his wife Sharon, serves with The Seed Company, a ministry of Wycliffe Bible Translators.

"The information is neatly organized into different web pages that contain personal information, prayer and praise items, pictures and other pertinent information. The missionary has total control over which pages are displayed and what is posted to these pages. For those who need it, we also provide security features that allow our subscribers to control who can visit their website.

"All people have to do is simply fill in the information they want to provide to their prayer supporters, and our computers maintain the information in an easy-to-use, personal website that their supporters can visit."

Joe Class, president of Class and Associates, based in Irvine, California, who is helping with the new website, explained, "Our goal is to help short-term and career missionaries with a critically important need, prayer. We realize that without prayer, ministry is, at best, limited and, at worst, not worth doing. ePrayerLetter.com is perhaps the most efficient way, for someone serving anywhere in the world to get information to a vast number of people very quickly."

Bill Wells explained how the website got started. "It began last fall with a phone call between my son and myself. Somebody had told him that they were working on a website and he said, 'This is crazy. They shouldn't be working on a website, they should be sticking to their job.' We got talking about it and out of that came www.ePrayerLetter.com."

When asked what he hoped to achieve through the website, Wells replied, "We would like to make available this instrument that will allow every Christian worker to put information out on the web without having to learn how to use html code, without having to put up with banner ads, and with a site that has visual clues that just fits properly with the broad evangelical community, so that the people that go there will feel comfortable. They can look at it and say, 'Yes, this is my kind of deal.'"

Joe Class then added, "One of the annoyances is, if you want to look at a lot of missionaries websites, is that you have to sign onto a website that has advertising that may be completely inconsistent with that missionaries' heart. So you have to wade through a lot of ads and a lot of garbage in order to get the information you want with ePrayerLetter.com.

Wells then said, "Our goal was to provide a service that is all about prayer and ministry. For less than $7.00 a month, we can do that."

He said that there are three types of subscriptions for ePrayerLetter.com and it is based on how a Christian worker wants their prayer partners to find their home prayer page.

The first allows logging onto the site and then finding the Christian worker by their last name and the mission agency they are with.

The second is for Christian workers who need more security, and this requires that the visitor know your login name and an appropriate password. This password would be supplied by the Christian worker to only those that he or she wants to have it.

The third subscription for those involved in short-term missions projects. In order for prayer supporters to find that Christian workers, they would simply provide last name and the state.

To sample ePrayerLeter.com and for a sample site, look at Bill and Sharon Wells with Wycliffe Bible Translators.

When asked why prayer was so important for missionaries, Wells said, "Because God has promised to bless the work of His Church and has invited us to participate by praying with missionaries and this is the key for allowing people to share in a concrete, personal way what is on their hearts."

For more information, log onto http://www.ePrayerLetter.com or phone Joe Class at (949) 794-9100 or e-mail him at joe@classandassociates.com .

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