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. There are seven or eight of us throughout New Jersey and this summer I assumed leadership of this program. The nice part of it is that I get to travel around northern New Jersey and meet new people at various methodist churches.   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)

Some of these churches are using the earlier version of Typo3 with the older templates (as is my church) and some are using the newer version of Typo3 with Frontend Editing.  I anticipate helping other churches in northern New Jersey in the months to come. I have purchased a wonderful Garmin GPS.  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.