I have been out of touch lately and behind on announcing some big news. As many of you know, right at the beginning of this year, I walked away from my blog, Church Tech Matters and started this one and also shortly after, I began to write at some other sites. (here and here) I had my reasons and even though I had a great run with that site, I felt like it was time for me to do something different. I felt pretty good about the decision and felt like it was the right thing for me to do.
Within a month of announcing my decision, God began doing some amazing things. Over the next few weeks, He brought together a team of enthusiastic, talented tech volunteers from around the world who are eager to have a voice to other tech volunteers.
The short version of the story is Church Tech Matters is alive and kicking again and fully supported by this team. My role is to provide the platform, with built in traffic and years of Google indexing and to simply get out of the way. These guys are awesome! They share a vision that I had a few years ago but didn’t know how to pull it off on my own. That vision is to reach the small churches that likely don’t have the technical expertise in house or if they are some willing volunteers, they may not be sure of all they should or could be doing.
There is nothing wrong with the megachurches, that have the budgets, although usually still limited, and the staff, although usually still limited, and there are some strong voices out there in the blogosphere that represent this subset of churches. But honestly, there are far more small to mid-size churches that struggle to do even the simplest of tech tasks. That is where my heart has been and I think I needed to step away from CTM and let go of it in order for God to create what He has created here.
CTM has been my baby for over 4 years and I know it was God that made it what it was, not me. But I’m not sure I would have been open to allowing another writer or 2, let alone 8 or 10 other writers to jump on board, without having walked away and letting go of it.
Go here to read my intro post to this new effort and I invite you back to Church Tech Matters, which is now
“A site for tech volunteers, written by tech volunteers and those that lead them.”
Jim – as one of those volunteers let me state publically that I don’t think you should “simply get out of the way”.
You are very much needed as the glue, the encourager, the driver and I guess even the Father figure that may need to discipline or correct us from time to time.
Thank you for the opportunity to expand our reach and for causing us to stretch ourselves.