It's MORE's first birthday!
4th December 2009 by Jarrod Newton
This weekend we celebrate the MORE website's first birthday! Hard to believe it's been one year already. We've had a heck of a lot of fun in the last 12 months, and we hope you have too.
We started salvos.org.au/more because we wanted to help teenagers and young adults engage with and live out the mission of The Salvation Army.
To celebrate our first birthday, we'd like to share a bit of our history, a bit of our future, and we'd love to share a few birthday presents as well!
The story so far...
Want some random info on what's happened on the site over the first 12 months? We've seen...
- Over 55 save-grow-serve testimonies (with more already locked & loaded!)
- 20 weeks worth of life group resources
- Over 30 icebreakers and games
- Over 50 articles
- Over 150 blog posts
- Over 50,000 website visits
- Over 430,000 pages loaded
- Over 25 GB bandwidth downloaded
- Over 600 comments (in only 7 months since comments launched!)
- Over 750 Facebook fans
What's to come...
We're already hard at work planning for 2010, and we've got some promises we're going to make! Here's some new stuff you can expect to see...
- GUYZONE and GIRLZONE - regular content on the site that's just for guys or just for girls.
- MAILBAG - Got a question or need some advice? Our new Mailbag will be here to help.
- YOUNG ADULTS - new content specifically for those post-highschoolers out there.
- MOREtv - We promise to give it more lovin' and make it more regular in 2010!
- YOUTH LEADERS - We're working on some brand new ways to serve, support and communicate with the phenomenal youth leaders around the territory.
Birthday presents!
What - you didn't get us anything? Don't worry... we came prepared! Leave a comment anywhere on the site in the next week and you'll go into the draw to win either one of 5 brand new Red Shield tees or one of 5 brand new 'Best Is Yet To Come' tees. These aren't even on sale yet!
P.S. It's got to be a legit comment - no spamming!
Oh... now you want to get US something?
The best birthday present you could give us is to step up and make a difference right where you are. Here's our wishlist for birthday number ONE.
- Invite ONE friend to church for the first time.
- Go out of your way to bless ONE of your neighbours.
- Do everyone else's chores at home for ONE day.
- Write ONE new save-grow-serve story.
It's been a great first year - make sure you join us for 2010. The best is yet to come!
save. grow. serve.
save - noah rzeminski
Noah Rzeminski from Wollongong tells how his father was not happy with his decision to b... Read more
serve - nick horvatic
Nick Horvatic from Bundaberg shares his journey as a youth worker over the past few year... Read more
Got your own story to share? Write to us today!
Comments
I am looking forward to the new young adult content!!! Well done MORE team, keep up the good work!!!
Hey guys, I'm only recently devoted my life to Jesus (4months ago) and I love this site and ur mission. Keep up the good work I'll be doing my bit when and where god wants me to. Happy b/day :D
Sweet! this site is awesome you guys do an awesome job bless you!!! heaps and heaps keep on keepin on God has a plan for this site and you guys are letting him play out his plan. good on you :):):):):)):):):):):):):)
Loving the MORE revolution!!!! By the way Narellan youth rock!!!!!
Congrats on the 1st year of excellent ministry! Plenty of years and opportunity ahead!
I can't wait for more moretv that will be good.
Keep working on this site. Its great!
Keep up the good work I'll be doing my bit when and where god wants me to. I am looking forward to the new young adult content!!! Well done MORE team, keep up the good work!!!
happy birthday! MORE is awesome!
im sure that the big J.C. up in the clouds is proud of you. im sure that youll do so much more in the next year! =D
Hip hip hooray and a happy birthday to you MORE...."the best is yet to come"
Happy birthday to you.you have some really cool stuff on your site and i bet there is more to come.Keep up the good work of the Lord.
Happy Birthday to you!!I have just started to look over your web site It's great.
Well, the MORE Birthday Competition is over and the winners have been drawn! It is not too long until the brand new T-shirts arrive, but I am going to put you out of your suspense now and tell you who the 10 lucky winners are...
Red Shield tees:
Nikky Thomas
Aaron Evans
Dan Walters
Kimberley
Jake Sandercock-Brown
'Best Is Yet To Come' tees:
Tim Girling
Caitie May
Jess Palmer
Shannon Stewart
Tianne Shaw
Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone for leaving your comments!