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How I Made a Website About Children's Church Ministry......and how you can build a site, too!This page is a continuation of the About Us page. I initially wrote the page about Chris & me and how we were called into Children's Church Ministry in 2006, and I try to update it periodically. As a young wife and mother with an ever-growing family, I don't have a whole lot of time to dedicate to building our site. You know what though? That's okay! That just reinforced in my mind and heart that it really was a great decision to build a website. The flexibility is perfect for us because I can build our site in my free time while putting my family first. And now with four young children under the age of six... well, I'm sure you can understand! The Birth of My Website ProjectI began this site in October 2006. My beloved husband tirelessly babysat almost every Monday and Thursday night so that I could throw myself full force into the project of my passion at that season of life. Being the distracted individual that I am... that dedication only lasted about two months! Then Christmas hit, and I took a lengthy break. Of course I made a few New Year's resolutions in regards to my website, and I did somewhat well with it for another couple of months until Little Miss Abigail made her presence known in my womb. We survived a few nauseating and tiring months until it was time to start homeschooling; and then a few months later, we birthed us a baby! And if you've ever had children, I'm sure you don't need to hear any excuses about why my site has been on the back burner since then! I did devote small amounts of time to my site, when I had them, throughout these events; and guess what ~ it paid off! The site just kept growing and gaining traffic.I am the type of person who gets really excited about diving into a new project and then dropping it before it's actually finished! Typically that results in a lot of... unfinished projects around the house. And wasted investments! But not my website! It has held up well; yea, it has even grown by leaps and bounds as I've spent a couple of hours per month tweaking it and adding a bit of content here and there. When I get 'tired' of working on it, I can let it sit for a couple of weeks until I'm motivated again. Then I dive in for a few hours and enjoy the soaring of the traffic (as opposed to the constant, steady traffic that it experiences during the times when other things in life take much higher priority). How Well Is This Site Doing?I'm glad you asked! Well, we are now enjoying 400-600 visitors per day (800-1000 during the times I really worked consistently) from countries all over the world. Actually, for the past three months, we've had over 10,000 separate visitors and 50,000-70,000 page views per month. Traffic-wise, we are almost in the top 2 million websites out of the 100+ million sites on the world wide web.We also rank very high in the search engines for almost any keyword pertaining to children's church ministry. Go ahead ~ Google children's church ministry, children's church object lessons, church etiquette for children, or any other term that brought you here or that interests you regarding children's church: |