By Dr. John Kimball, CCCC Director of Conference Services

In an era when most people get their information from the Internet, and communicating with young, visionary folks pursuing Christ in ministry is paramount, maintaining a relevant, user-friendly website has become critical for all Christian organizations and ministries. Welcome to the CCCC's new website! (If you're reading this, then you've already found us!)
We are really excited about all that this new website can offer -- both now and for many years to come. Like our old site, it can provide basic information about who we are and why we exist. And like our old site, it can provide downloads and online resources to help our members in their respective ministries. But this new site offers many other things as well -- things that we have implemented to make this as useful a tool as possible for both our members and for those who wish to learn more about our ministry distinctives and vision.
Here's just a few important changes:
- Online Donations - now you can make donations to virtually any CCCC fund, securely and online, using your VISA, MasterCard or Discover Card. And this new eCommerce ability also allows us to accept credit cards for your orders with Foresee Publications as well (even at the Annual Meeting book table!).
- Enhanced Ministry Pages - eventually building pages for all of our CCCC ministries, we now have the ability to be more informative and interactive than ever before to meet the needs of our members.
- Online Resource and Bookstore - both for CCCC logo items and for ministry resources, our partnership with NextStep Resources means that you can now purchase your books, bibles, Sunday school & VBS curriculum and more right from our website!
- CCCC News Updates - the ability to keep you immediately up to date on important news items that happen between issues of The FORESEE.
- CCCC Missionary News - the ability to post the most recent edition of our CCCC member missionary newsletters so that you can keep informed as to their ministries, needs and prayer requests, and can also make an informed decision when choosing missionaries to add to your church's Faith-Promise budget.
- Benefits Pages - online information and links about helpful new developments in ministry retirement plans, health benefits, disability insurance, life insurance and more (these items are negotiated specifically for CCCC members).
- Enhanced Church Search - an improved church search function to find a CCCC church home near you!
- Online Forms & Fee Collection - the ability to begin filling in various CCCC forms and questionnaires online -- even paying their respective fees & donations -- for a much quicker response.
We hope you find the new CCCC website to be an important and helpful tool in both your relationship with the Conference and your ministry. Keep checking back as it will continue to grow and change to best meet your needs.
John Kimball is Director of Conference Care & Church Redevelopment for the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference. He also serves as our Director of Conference Services. In addition to over 20 years of ministry experience, John taught electronics at a local community college, where he says he began "dabbling" in computer repair, design and programming. He joined the Conference team in January 2007.
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