Wednesday, April 18, 2007

ONE BLOG TO RULE THEM ALL

Welcome to the new Terra Nova Church Blog. Here’s a brief history of blogging in terra nova land. When we started the church last year, we knew we should be blogging and that it was an effective way to communicate with a bunch of people all at once. So we set up the “pastors blogs”. One blog for each pastor. And at first, we were pretty good about keeping up with it on at least a weekly basis. And people checked the blogs, and commented, and everyone was happy. Then, one or more of us would get busy, and blogging became a nuisance, rather than something we really wanted to do. So a month or more would go by with no entries. And people stopped checking the blogs. Then we realized that 1. It’s a pain to feel like you have to find something to blog about every week so that people don’t feel disappointed. 2. It’s a pain for you to check three separate blogs to see what your pastors are up to. 3. We’d really like to invite guests (other people at TN, other than just the pastors) onto the blogs to post things. For example, you will see a blog here about Tom Corey’s trip to Kiev to teach at a Seminary. In the future, you will see blogs about serving at Joseph’s House, various mission trips, art openings in the gallery, new initiatives at Terra. We hope that this new blog will become a popular place to keep up with the life of Terra Nova. Send your blog entry ideas to phil@terranovachurch.org . Enjoy!