The GreenList

We have added a new service which really ought to float your boat. It's a great way for church members to communicate with the whole group all at once. It's an enhanced usenet / listserver hosted by Google Groups. I know the other geeks like me will be excited to hear that, but for the rest, you will be excited to hear that the GreenList has arrived!!!!
Yeah!!!!

So... what is that, you ask?

It's a discussion group. Much like a bulletin board - articles, announcements or notes are posted and folks are free to post a response. Posts are threaded, so you can follow them sequentially, and searchable, so you can find things from the past.

It's a mailing list. When a post is created, it will be sent to all members of the list. You decide how you want to receive these - it can be one email per post, a once-a-day summary of the first few lines of all the posts that day, a digest of the entire day in one email, or you can decline altogether, and just read it on the web.

It's a membership list. Each member has a profile page to post information about about themselves.

It's private. I set it up to be members-only. We'll try to steer the public stuff to the web site and this here blog. Nobody but members gets to see the GreenList stuff.

This is a free service, which makes it all the better.

In order to keep it all private and free, we used the service offered by Google. You'll need to set up a Google account. Barb just did it in 2 minutes. She says I get way too technical. "Out there" is what she actually said. But she got in. You can, too. If it's too 'out there' for you, just give me a call. I'll walk you through it.

The Youth Group Needs A Name

This blog is not just for adults....
Got kids involved in the youth group? Well, I worked up a logo.
It's not complete without the name.
We're taking suggestions from kids and adults.

The symbolism here, in part:
Youth - circling the globe hand in hand.
The five in front represent leadership of others as well as stewardship of the earth and all upon it.
The colors represent divergent talents, and the many other differences of our youth.
The number is thirteen - that's because we follow Jesus plus twelve disciples.

If you have any suggestions for the name, or more symbolism to add, please comment.

Snow Day

Well, worship service is canceled because of the snow.
What a perfect time to try your new username on the web site!

And hey, let's be careful out there. There's a lot of snow, but now that church is canceled there's more time, so take it slow. Follow this link for some safety advice from the National Safety Council.

Welcome to our new blog

Welcome, and thank you for checking out the new blog.

This is where you can post items of interest to the United Church Community at large.
Someone creates a post, others can comment.
You may want to post something that begins with:

• Coming up next week......
• We're organizing a ......
• Can anybody help with.......
• I'd really like too see more.......
• Did you get a load of Christopher's tie?
  (Ok, let's not have the gossip. Besides, you're not very likely to see me wear a tie!)

If you have a log-in name for unitedchurch12834.org, you probably have permission to post here. If it doesn't work so good, send an e-mail to cfitz@unitedchurch12834.org or just give me a call.