{"id":1228,"date":"2010-04-01T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2013-03-25T10:50:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T17:50:39","slug":"web-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2010\/04\/01\/web-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Kyle Grindley<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Much like Robin Hood and his merry men, the LBC web team is a loosely organized group of ragtag folks joined for a common goal.\u00a0 However, rather than the illegal redistribution of wealth, our goal is the redistribution of knowledge, specifically knowledge of what is going on at LBC.\u00a0 We take information from those ministry leaders who have a wealth of knowledge and freely give it to those congregants who lack it.<\/p>\n<p>While Robin Hood was motivated by altruism and an apatite for adventure, we want\u00a0 to see Christ&#8217;s church grow.\u00a0 The web site was designed to be a tool for helping LBC accomplish its <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MVP<\/a>.\u00a0 This idea should permeate every feature of the site.\u00a0 The calendar\u2019s purpose helping ministry leaders coordinate with members of their ministries.\u00a0 The mailing list is in place to make it easier for the pastors to communicate to the congregation.\u00a0 Ministry lists help LBCers find somewhere to involve themselves.\u00a0 The member directory allows people to easily contact one another so that they can love and serve one another.\u00a0 There are also many people who have found our church because of the web site, so the information should to reflect what is going on so like minded Christians and those curious about Jesus can find us.<\/p>\n<p>Also, like Robin Hood&#8217;s band we like to skulk around behind the scenes; they in Sherwood Forest, we just kind of blend in around LBC.\u00a0 If you are wondering who is named among the merry band at LBC, you&#8217;ve come to the right paragraph.\u00a0 Have you ever downloaded a sermon from the <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">media section<\/a>?\u00a0 Well, Terence Kim was a major part of its design and Paul Chen diligently ensures the latest sermons are up.\u00a0 Have you ever checked the announcements page?\u00a0 You have Kim Phan to thank for that up-to-date list.\u00a0 Collegians, next time you see Michael Kwon say thanks because he maintains the <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/collegelife\/\" target=\"_blank\">College Life site<\/a>.\u00a0 Sinlges, Ryan McAdams designed the bulk of the<a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/singlelife\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\"> Single Life site <\/a>(and coined &#8220;We&#8217;re LBC! And we&#8217;re single!&#8221;).\u00a0 If you have been enjoying the <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/members\/\" target=\"_blank\">members directory<\/a> you can thank Peter Lim as he wrote most of the code for that.\u00a0 Steven Preslar also helped in the early stages of the member directory development.\u00a0 Dan Baker designed a new look that we hope to roll out this year and worked on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beacon 3.0<\/a> along with Stephen Rodgers.\u00a0 Kevin Chan, Stephanie Cheng, Harold Kim &amp; John Mark Wendler are newer members of the web team and are all excited to help out.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the features we are hoping to add in 2010 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Members section improvements including adding pictures the the directory.<\/li>\n<li>A new layout for the main site that will showcase the newest sermons and Beacon articles.<\/li>\n<li>Mailing list improvements<\/li>\n<li>A bunch of behind the scenes changes that you probably won&#8217;t notice, but trust me, they will be sweet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We hope that you have found the web site helpful in some regard as you work to build up the church.\u00a0 We are always looking for ways to improve the site and find new features that would be helpful.\u00a0 Since no one knows what the ministries could use better than those involved in the ministries that puts you in a unique position to help us.\u00a0 If there is something that might help your ministry please let us know, we would love to give it a try.\u00a0 Also, as the ragtag bunch we are, sometimes things don&#8217;t work the way we expect; servers go down, bugs are missed all sorts of problems arise.\u00a0 If you come across a problem please tell us right away; chances are we don&#8217;t know about it yet.\u00a0 You can send any ideas, questions comments, problem reports to <a href=\"mailto:web@lighthousebc.com\" target=\"_blank\">web@lighthousebc.com<\/a>.\u00a0 You can also help us by praying that we would use our time and resources in a way that furthers the MVP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kyle Grindley Much like Robin Hood and his merry men, the LBC web team is a loosely organized group of ragtag folks joined for a common goal.\u00a0 However, rather than the illegal redistribution of wealth, our goal is the redistribution of knowledge, specifically knowledge of what is going on at LBC.\u00a0 We take information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry-profile"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7821,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/7821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}