A Website - Do I Need One?
You have asked yourself the above question and have now arrived at Go Ye Web Design to get some answers. My answer is you probably do need a website. You need one in order to better communicate with your supporting churches and individuals. The Apostle Paul communicated with his supporting churches and so must you. Your own ministry website can be updated as often as necessary with as little as an email and some attached photographs. Your supporters are keenly interested in your ministry and want to be kept up to date on the latest news. A website can take care of this vital need.

The missionary needs a website to reduce the cost of regular updates to supporters. The time and expense of composing, printing, signing, folding, stuffing envelopes and mailing a monthly prayer/news letter can be considerable. The drain on limited resources and your valuable time can be substantially reduced with your own website. Your information can be posted on your website and you can then send out emails with a link to the new information online. This results in more time to devote to your ministry and more funds to apply to the pressing needs of your ministry.

A website can also reduce the time and expense of introducing your ministry to prospective supporters. One of the toughest tasks a missionary faces is getting booked into churches to present his calling and vision. A website won't dial the phone and talk with that pastor or director of missions. But a website is a place the pastor or missions director can go to get more information when considering whether or not to book you into his missions conference. This information flow can be almost immediate by simply providing your website address. Your need for printed materials explaining your ministry is reduced considerably, not to mention the cost of postage, the time involved preparing the information packet and the time lag of snail mail.

A website can provide alternative means of communicating with far away supporters, family, friends and fellow missionaries. Forums, chats, guestbooks, blogs and email for your personal domain are all possible with your website.