Grow the Church, Touch the People, Spread the Message

If your church needs a website or hosting, we can provide that...but so can a hundred others. Most churches start and stop with what's known as a 'web presence'. They hire someone to build the site (or someone's nephew does it), find a host and then comes the big hoorah. Three months later there are more virtual cobwebs on your web presence than new visitors to the church. This whole process is rather like putting your big toe in the pool, but never actually going swimming. Instead of providing web presence only, we want to join you and help grow your church, touch your people and spread the message.

You have more than one pulpit and congregation

Whether you realize it or not, you have more than one pulpit and congregation. Consider yourself a traveling pastor, only your trips are measured in feet rather than miles, you'll likely dress in pajamas or sweats rather than a shirt and tie and you'll deliver the message through the Internet rather than from a podium. The way people receive a message is inescapably personal and there are many reasons why they might not make it through the church door. There are people who travel for work or work during service times, people whose kids compete in sporting event on the weekends, people who have moved to your neighborhood but don't know you exist, people who aren't 'into religion' but have a crisis and decide to give God a try, people who have been hurt by churches and won't step foot in the door and people who don't feel like they can fit in with 'church people'. Bottom line, if your message is only going out to those who physically come into your church each week, then you are missing a wonderful opportunity.

We handle the headaches that allow you to reach their hearts

The Internet is inherently intimidating to many people, we get that. Still, there are a growing percentage of people who prefer the Internet to showing up in person or using the phone. We'll bend over backward to provide an easy-to-cross bridge that leads pastors, staff and members from technical isolation into the land of virtual community. Our goal is to handle your technical headaches so you can focus on reaching their hearts.

Allow your people to "double dip"

If the sauce is good, we secretly all want to 'double dip'. The same goes with your message. The more times people can dip into the sauce (message) prior to taking the next chip (church service) the better the message tastes. Quite simply, we make double, triple or even quadruple dipping easy for you. One dip could be an audio or video of that week's message posted on your website. A second dip might be a written summary of the message posted to the pastor's blog (online diary). A third dip would be posting the 'meat' of the message on a forum for open discussion between members. A fourth dip could be a podcast for the growing number of IPod and MP3 (portable music players) users. Don't worry if you don't understand this technology, just call us and we'll put a few more bricks on the virtual community building for those who do.

Redeem the technology to renew the minds

There is no substitute for attending the physical church, but we accept the fact that we are a frantic and fragmented society. Part of our mission is to redeem the technology that is currently controlling the frantic fringe and to instead use it to renew their minds with the gospel of peace.

One box, ever growing, different tools, keep the message flowing

CorData puts everything you need to start, run and continually improve your virtual community, into one box...at one flat rate. There is no need to pay for every new tool you decide to use. As a partner, just call us and tell us the problem you need solved or the dream you need pursued and we will go to the box and pull out what you need.

The best part is that we are continually adding new and improved tools to the box without adding to the fees. CorData's hosting plan is designed to encourage and enable the heart of a pastor to get the message out without technical or financial obstacles.

Our partners have discovered a tremendous secret. Taking tools out of the box to reach your other congregation brings God out of the box as well. It really is the ultimate tool to reach those who have been unreachable or even uninterested in traditional church.

We'd like the opportunity to listen to your ideas, concerns and needs about how your church can start using or make better use of the Internet as a resource for evangelism and discipleship.

Call us at (877) 795-0089 (it's TOLL FREE) or simply fill out the form below, and we'll send you a free report entitled "The Five Internet Impacts Every Pastor Should Understand".

"I am VERY thankful for CorData. They have helped us reach hundreds of people with the gospel through our website."

Jim Moon, Jr., Senior Pastor
Crosspoint Presbyterian Church

 

 

"Relying on CorData has been able to free me up to do the things that I feel I am called to do."

Keith Rowe, Pastor
Freedom Chapel