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Welcome Mike – Our newest Blogger

It is with great pleasure that I can announce that my good friend Mike will be blogging here at DAT Ministries. Mike is a strong Christian man and along with his wife, Laura, they have raised a fine family. He knows the Word in a very intimate way and can relate the Scriptures to others in down-to-earth writings that is easily understood by all. Mike is sure to be one of the favorite bloggers with our visitors.

Mike and I first met at a Christian blogging website called myChurch almost 15 years ago. That website no longer exists as we knew it and the domain (the Internet address) is under new ownership and the site has been re-purposed from the original owners’ design. A lot of people, and they had a membership list of 100,000 plus, were saddened by the loss of that website for blogging as we knew it. Mike and I have stayed in touch with some of the bloggers through the years on Facebook and other social media websites. What most of us have not done during those years is blog. Until now.

Within the next few days, Mike will begin blogging here with a combination of blogs posted over 10 years ago that were in their own rights classics along with newly minted blogs. The blogs from yesteryear are every bit as relevant today as they were then. Some are even prophetic. I know that the visitors to DAT Ministries will enjoy reading all of Mike’s blogs. The blogs that are republished will have the original publish date as part of the blog.

So please join with me in welcoming Mike to blogging on this website. In the future, Mike may also be blogging on his own website as well and we encourage him to do just that. He is such a gifted blogger that we at DAT Ministries in no way want to hold him back. Perhaps we will have the good fortune to have Mike publish his blogs on both websites when that day arrives. And note that I said when; not if. I believe that God has already ordained Mike to blog. I just hope that Mike will keep on blogging for a long time to come. You may not know this but I do; we ALL need Mike’s blogs to help us grow in Christ.

Pastor Dave

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Guestbook and Photo Albums Published

Just a very brief blog to announce the publishing of the Guestbook and photo albums; one named 10web Gallery and the other NextGEN Gallery. While both photo albums are currently empty, the Guestbook is fully operational. The staff here at DAT Ministries look forward to reading your comments in the new Guestbook.

That will be a wrap for today. You all have been great. I especially appreciate the eMails from folks that either let me know how this ministry has helped them or sent me ideas on content that I could publish. With that, I leave you by speaking this blessing over you:

“I pray that the Lord
will bless and protect you,
and that he will show you mercy
and kindness.
May the Lord be good to you
and give you peace.”
Numbers 6:24-26 (CEV)

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WordPress CMS is AWESOME!!!

This website is being built with WordPress CMS (Content Management System) and I have to say that I am super impressed! I could write a small book on all the cool features built into WordPress and its associated plugins, widgets and whatnot’s. The capabilities, features and security are simply outstanding.

There is a small learning curve; well maybe a steep learning curve for some like me, but it is doable with a little perseverance. After all, if I can figure WordPress out having MELAS Syndrome; anybody can! LOL! At first the menus were a tad confusing and a bit perplexing. but I overcame the initial fear of “What have I gotten myself in to?” to being able to relaunch DAT Ministries using the WordPress CMS. Having MELAS, I still have the challenges of a short-term memory and learning issues of new tasks. But running a website such as this is therapeutic in that it exercises my grey matter (the brain) which is a good thing. I will be talking more about the various things that I do such as maintaining this website, learning to play a six-string guitar and other things that help to keep MELAS, a degenerative neuromuscular disease, in-check. Those discussions will be found in the MELAS section of this website as accessible from the top-level menu on any webpage of this website.

So if you have a website and are looking to revamp it with a new CMS, I highly recommend that you give WordPress a try. I think that you will be pleasantly surprised at the capabilities and features of this fine CMS. As I understand it, WordPress is the #1 CMS for website building, blogging or app construction. It might just be a little noticeable that I cannot seem to find enough good things to say about WordPress. LOL!

That will be a wrap for today. You all have been great. I especially appreciate the eMails from folks that either let me know how this ministry has helped them or sent me ideas on content that I could publish. With that, I leave you by speaking this blessing over you:

“I pray that the Lord
will bless and protect you,
and that he will show you mercy
and kindness.
May the Lord be good to you
and give you peace.”
Numbers 6:24-26 (CEV)

Pastor Dave

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