One might actually think it silly to replace an award-winning website with a free Wordpress.com blog site. But we had our reasons. Here they are:

1 - we wanted to create something that was more interactive.

We are in the age of Web 2.0. Websites are more than just bulletin boards now. They must be ever-changing and interactive. This site will be, and we will be adding latest news more easily, as well as video stories of the Westpoint family living sent together.

2 - we wanted to create something that was free and reproducible.

We collaborate with a lot of other leaders who are a part of "legacy churches" or are starting to be the church in new ways. We want everything we do to be as reproducible as possible, so that anyone who sees what God is doing in and through Westpoint could be encouraged that they could do it in their own way in their context, too. Website included. We had an award-winning, high cost website. We love the guy that created it for us BIG TIME. However, for our current emphases and purposes, we realized it was not reproducible. So, we made one that was.

3 - we wanted to make it easy to manage and update from anywhere.

With a Wordpress blog, we can update and manage the new site from anywhere there is access to the internet. Pretty cool.

4 - we wanted you to contribute to its content.

We believe that each of you as the Westpoint church family has so much to contribute and offer as encouragement to each other. So, we will be creating a TEAM OF BLOGGERS to contribute to the "teaching" element of the blog site. Are you interested? Leave a reply in the comment section below and let us know. We want you to be a part.

So, there you go. Look around. Leave us some thoughts and feedback.

By the way - are you dreaming about how to be the church, how to live sent? If you are, and you need a website to communicate that dream and to tell the stories of how it is being lived out, then you can create one for free...like we did. And, we'll show you how.

Keep being the church, living sent daily.