Training materials
2006: Church Webs - Beyond the Basics
2004: Communications & Technology in the Local Church
2003: Technology in the Local Church
Training materials
2006: Church Webs - Beyond the Basics
2004: Communications & Technology in the Local Church
2003: Technology in the Local Church
Three quarters of American homes have Internet access (ClickZ News). Church Web sites are becoming a necessity, not a frill. So when churches communicate, they need to address use of this relatively new medium.
Because of that, in 2003, annual training began for Atlanta-Decatur-Oxford and Atlanta-Emory Districts of the North Georgia Conference, The United Methodist Church. These sessions are part of that overall Annual Training event held each January.
You have several options for accessing information about the 2003 Web session at the annual
You can watch a web-based slide show of the presentation that was part of the 2003 District Training for the Atlanta-Decatur-Oxford and Atlanta-Emory Districts. This was an export by PowerPoint 97. PowerPoint 2003 adds the ability to export as a single-page Web Archive (MHT) file.
The full 61-page handout, complete with 4 appendixes, is available as a
MS Word doc. Due to its size, it is in ZIP format. If you do not have MS Word or an Unzip program, you may wish to use
the following links.
Download a free Unzip program
Download the free Microsoft [Word] Viewer
You can also download a mini-outline (MS Word, 88KB) of the above 61-page document.
The "Web Developer Links" page originally created for the 2003 session, has been updated and placed at the top level of these training pages.
You may also want to check out the web sites of churches in these two districts. (Please send corrections to the email address listed below)
You may contact the author via the Avondale Pattillo UMC email address,
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