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More accurately it is precisely one year since I registered the domain name. Checking back my first post didn’t happen for several weeks. The gap was due to my messing with the back end, trying to find a design I liked (those of you that have been here a while will know I’ve changed it several times since) and I was also surprised by the fact that the domain name was available.
Once I’d got over the initial surprise of having the domain name the next decision I faced was what to do with it. There was no doubt I wanted to create something with which I could give back and to that end a blog was the obvious choice. Despite being good with words I don’t consider myself a natural blogger and I am very much learning as I go along. I certainly wasn’t called to “blog for God” but at the root of everything I do for God is service and giving and consequently I’ve been thinking of how I could better share my expertise and life experiences.
So here I am, with my very own Church Technology blog. So why am I blogging?
- To give of my knowledge and experience
- To build relationships with other Christian Technologists
- To learn from others
- To create a public “to do” list for my life
- To become much more accountable through those that know where I’m at
In the last year I have built some fledgling relationships with other Christians and specifically with ones whom also have an abiding love of technology – be it a hobby or a profession in the Church or in the world. These are relationships I want to foster and I want them to last the remainder of my life irrespective of me blogging or not. Unfortunately most of these relationships will have to remain online as these folks are American, Australian and other far flung places.
The blog has also opened my eyes to the wider world of tech in Church and to realise just how partisan we in the UK are in our dealings with fellow brothers / sisters. To that end I am hoping to develop relationships with fellow UK techies, bloggers, etc and see if we can’t reproduce or become an affiliate of something like CITRT or similar. I’d like for Christian Techs in the UK to have access to MinistryTech and other such Church centric technical conferences. We may have all of these already but I haven’t found them yet.
So, here’s to another and my second year of blogging and especially here’s to a deepening of relationships, a strengthening of ties and of discovering or providing answers and help to one and all.
Happy 1st Birthday ChurchTechy
Congrats Stuart! Here is to a long run for your blog. I really hope you can find a group there. I can speak for the groups I am involved in just Texas have really helped me with this ministry/job I work at. Every time we attend a conference or get-together I come out with a great deal of information I did not have before. I pray for a group there for you and your fellow church techies.
Congratulations, I've only been reading your blog for a little bit but going back in the archives I've found some amazing posts. Keep it up.