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UrbanMinistry.org Newsletter: October 2007

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techmission logoTechMission's October newsletter shares our statistics for ChristianVolunteering.org and UrbanMinistry.org.

It also includes a brief description of TechMission's AC4 membership benefits, and lists our current job opportunities.

October 2007

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ChristianVolunteering.org Updates

After our first year of operation, ChristianVolunteering.org has placed 1,256 volunteers with 1,847 opportunities from 1,116 organizations with visitors from 178 countries/territories. The site's partners of TechMission, Salvation Army, Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, CCDA, UYWI, YouthPartnersNet and HLIC. Our goal for the next year is to place over 2,500 volunteers in over 4,000 opportunities across 2,500 organizations with over 1 million unique visitors. How you can help us reach that goal:

  1. Post a Volunteer or Short Term Missions Opportunity for Free
  2. Search for Volunteer and Missions Opportunities and Click "I want to Volunteer"
  3. Get your church to post our volunteer search form on their website. Each link we get is worth $20-100 of increased traffic
  4. Share ChristianVolunteering.org with friends on Facebook or send this newsletter to an E-mail list.

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UrbanMinistry.org Updates

UrbanMinistry.org provides a web portal for those interested in urban ministry and social justice. The site has 2,644 articles, sermons, videos and workshops on social justice topics with 8,535 registered users and 1,979 organizations. The site's partners include CCDA, AGRM, YouthPartnersNet, Kingdomworks, UrbNet, FASTEN and other ministries which contribute content. Most of the material is shared under a Creative Commons License, which enables ministries to re-use the content. All ChristianVolunteering.org users also have accounts with UrbanMinistry.org. Here is how you can get involved:

  1. Take a tour of UrbanMinistry.org
  2. Post or edit our Wiki (like Wikipedia) which includes Encyclopedias of Urban Ministry, Recovery, Technology, Volunteering, Grant Writing and Urban Youth Ministry. All registered users can contribute and edit pages.
  3. Create a user profile and start meeting friends or blog through our social networking section.
  4. Visit our new content including our Urban Ministry Stock Photo library.

Save Thousands on Ministry Expenses

Our goal is to help provide resources to Urban Ministries. One of the ways we do that is by providing discounts and member benefits to users through our TechMission Membership program. Some of the member benefits include:

  • Discounted insurance which could save your organization thousands of dollars each year.
  • Group buying discounts with over 100 organizations
  • Free after-school educational software valued at $1800
  • Technology and Ministry Packet and Members only content

Membership only costs $20-150 for urban ministries depending on organization size. Find out more or sign up now! CCDA organizational members already receive these benefits, so you do not need to sign up again.


Top Content for October

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Top Video: Brenda Salter McNeil: KingdomWorks 2001

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Job Postings

TechMission is now hiring paid interns for one-year, paid AmeriCorps positions in the following areas:

  • Grant Writing (Boston)
  • After-School Program Assistant (Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver and New York)
  • Volunteer Coordinator (Boston)
  • Web Developer (Boston)
  • Graphic Designer (Boston)

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Who's Hot?

Each month, we measure the search engine traffic for various leaders in urban ministry. Last month's search stats on UrbanMinistry.org were:

Juanita Bynum (646)
Thomas Weeks (253)
Myles Munroe (253)
T.D. Jakes (175)
Tony Evans (132)
Bill Winston (108)
Noel Jones (88)
Randy White (86)
Creflo Dollar (85)
Shane Claiborne (80)
Eddie Long (76)
Brennan Manning (67)
Tony Campolo (56)
Brenda Salter McNeil (48)
Ray Bakke (48)
John Perkins (47)
Joni Erickson Tada (46)
Martin Luther King Jr. (46)
Tim Keller (45)
Kirk Franklin (41)


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About Us

TechMission is a Christian nonprofit social service organization.

Our Values are Jesus, Justice and Technology.

Our Mission is to support Christian organizations, churches and ministries using technology to serve at-risk communities through community technology centers, online safety and technology in youth programs.

 

Our Programs are ChristianVolunteering.org, UrbanMinistry.org, SafeFamilies.org, TechMission Corps and TechMission/AC4 Membership.

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