21st Century Circuit Riders

Remember those pastors who rode around the State on horses, teaching and preaching in local churches? Well, the Greater New Jersey Conference has a program which uses Circuit Riders to travel around the State and help other churches get started using the Web Empowered Church and Typo3 Software. The GNJ Conference has had this program for the last 5-6 years. Sadly, it is coming to an end since it looks like the Conference will no longer fund this program (and the Grant Program) beyond June 30th of this year.    In the past I have helped:

• St. Mark UMC in Hamilton
• Quakertown and Kingwood United Methodist churches in Hunterdon County.
• Roseland United Methodist Church in Roseland (near Caldwell)
• Alloway UMC, in southern NJ
• First United Methodist Church in Hightstown, NJ
• Flanders United Methodist Church, Flanders, NJ (by e-mail only)
• First United Methodist Church of Asbury Park, NJ
• Covenant United Methodist Church, Plainfield, NJ
• Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church, Pleasantville, NJ (by e-mail only)

These are exciting times for the churches that want to pursue technology to get the word out about the good things happening in their congregations and, hopefully, reach "seekers" for Jesus.  It remains to be seen what advice the Conference will give to churches in the future.