Owner: Erin Drew and Lisa Countiss

Project Managers: Mike, Nathan and Mark

Create a new page/section for all of the Mission Bases

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Also, what I’d like to see is a nicer http://www.adventures.org/a/centers/ page with little thumbnails showing what they can see there. - Seth

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http://www.adventures.org/a/centers/

Hey folks, check out what Mike and Mark have done. It’s a good start. A few of you can help us just by organizing and sending us the pictures and some of the stuff you’ve already written.

Now let’s start pumping this. I’d like for us to flesh the thing out. China is the best site at present, but some of the others are looking good too. The others can reach that level if they see what others are doing and use some of those ideas to improve their own site. This is the time of year to do it; pretty soon the project season will start up. Please review my original memo and check what you’ve done so far against this. Some of you are already ready to move on to point #3 and that is great. Others are feeling overwhelmed at present and have told me that you’ll be getting us more info later.

Dear base directors,

Many of you would like additional resources. This is my effort to empower you to help you get those resources. We need to have a good AIM Base web page for each AIM base. Even if you don’t have property, we can cast a vision that will help you attract donors to help you do so. Eventually, we will post all of the Base pages to:

http://www.adventures.org/a/centers/ My goal is that we would have something from each of you by tomorrow and at least a blog for your base started by next week. I have tasked Mike Price, Mark Lindberg and Serena to assist you in this. You can cc me so that I know stuff is happening.

Here is the process:

1. To do immediately

Each base staff compiles the following and sends to Mike, cc’d to Serena and I:

• a picture of the buildings they use

• a picture of the surroundings or a cityscape
• a picture of the team at that base
• a picture of each ministry of the base
• a picture of “future planned ministry” (whatever that may look like – a building, people ministering, etc.)
• descriptions of each picture

I have asked for this in the past, and so far have only received materials from a few of you.

Initially, Mike and Serena will help you create a blog for your base and then an actual web site. To see an example of what the blog looks like go to: http://kenya.myadventures.org/

If you don’t have good digital pictures, it shouldn’t take long to go thru the pictures from past projects and to send the links to the ones you choose. I have asked Serena to get a commitment from you and get this done in a timely way.

2. Create personal blogs

To help us create your Base web site, send Serena and Mike links to any blogs or web pages you’ve got going, or email Mike Price have him set you up with your own base blog and your personal blog. You will eventually have both the blogs and your base page. A good example of a family web site that can be used as the basis of a Base web site is: http://morsemission.com/. Or, a lot of good info may already be up there on the FYM site related to your base (see http://www.fymissions.com/a/fym/philadelphia.htm for an example).

We’ll take whatever raw materials you’ve got and help you create a blog and then a Base web site.

3. Write the following

Here is the outline for your Base web site – a page or more on each of these. To build this, you begin writing a paragraph or two on each of the following pages:

• Our story (how did the base come into being? How did God lead you there?)
• Our vision (where you want to take the ministry in 3-5 years. What difference it will make?)
• Our staff (pull from staff page or FYM page – it should look something like this: http://www.fymissions.com/a/fym/Leader_Biographies/Bob_Marissa_Waag.asp
• The Country (you can pull from AIM web site project descriptions)
• Our Ministry (what you do and why it’s important)
• Our Local partners (tell their stories)
• Giving opportunities (why it’s needed, how much, how it will be used)
• Links to FYM page & personal blogs

Then find photos for each of these.

4. Your team

Every time we sit down with potential donors, we can use your web site as a tool to help tell your story. We are building a team who will regularly do this. That team includes:

Me

Scott Borg – your boss (currently on the road for 3 weeks helping raise funds)

Gary Black – new Director of Development for AIM beginning next month

Deryck Livingston – Major Donor rep and chief advocate for the Institute

Joe Lynch – on the road 4 days a month for AIM

Cindy in Mexico – focused on the Institute

AIM board – will help as we empower them

AIM staff – some of us can raise funds or recruit people for you in the midst of our other responsibilities.

Please make this a priority – if we all dedicate some time to this, we’ll have something that those of us who raise funds can use to help you.

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From Seth: 1/26/2006

Dear base directors,

Many of you would like additional resources. This is my effort to empower you to help you get those resources. We need to have a good AIM Base web page for each AIM base. Even if you don’t have property, we can cast a vision that will help you attract donors to help you do so. Eventually, we will post all of the Base pages to:

http://www.adventures.org/a/centers/ My goal is that we would have something from each of you by tomorrow and at least a blog for your base started by next week. I have tasked Mike Price, Mark Lindberg and Serena to assist you in this. You can cc me so that I know stuff is happening.

Here is the process:

1. To do immediately

Each base staff compiles the following and sends to Mike, cc’d to Serena and I:

• a picture of the buildings they use

  a picture of the surroundings or a cityscape

• a picture of the team at that base
• a picture of each ministry of the base
• a picture of “future planned ministry” (whatever that may look like – a building, people ministering, etc.)
• descriptions of each picture

I have asked for this in the past, and so far have only received materials from a few of you.

Initially, Mike and Serena will help you create a blog for your base and then an actual web site. To see an example of what the blog looks like go to: http://kenya.myadventures.org/

If you don’t have good digital pictures, it shouldn’t take long to go thru the pictures from past projects and to send the links to the ones you choose. I have asked Serena to get a commitment from you and get this done in a timely way.

2. Create personal blogs

To help us create your Base web site, send Serena and Mike links to any blogs or web pages you’ve got going, or email Mike Price have him set you up with your own base blog and your personal blog. You will eventually have both the blogs and your base page. A good example of a family web site that can be used as the basis of a Base web site is: http://morsemission.com/. Or, a lot of good info may already be up there on the FYM site related to your base (see http://www.fymissions.com/a/fym/philadelphia.htm for an example).

We’ll take whatever raw materials you’ve got and help you create a blog and then a Base web site.

3. Write the following

Here is the outline for your Base web site – a page or more on each of these. To build this, you begin writing a paragraph or two on each of the following pages:

• Our story (how did the base come into being? How did God lead you there?)
• Our vision (where you want to take the ministry in 3-5 years. What difference it will make?)
• Our staff (pull from staff page or FYM page – it should look something like this: http://www.fymissions.com/a/fym/Leader_Biographies/Bob_Marissa_Waag.asp
• The Country (you can pull from AIM web site project descriptions)
• Our Ministry (what you do and why it’s important)
• Our Local partners (tell their stories)
• Giving opportunities (why it’s needed, how much, how it will be used)
• Links to FYM page & personal blogs

Then find photos for each of these.

4. Your team

Every time we sit down with potential donors, we can use your web site as a tool to help tell your story. We are building a team who will regularly do this. That team includes:

Me

Scott Borg – your boss (currently on the road for 3 weeks helping raise funds)

Gary Black – new Director of Development for AIM beginning next month

Deryck Livingston – Major Donor rep and chief advocate for the Institute

Joe Lynch – on the road 4 days a month for AIM

Cindy in Mexico – focused on the Institute

AIM board – will help as we empower them

AIM staff – some of us can raise funds or recruit people for you in the midst of our other responsibilities.

Please make this a priority – if we all dedicate some time to this, we’ll have something that those of us who raise funds can use to help you.

seth

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From Seth: 1/19/2006

We need to have a good AIM base web page for each AIM base. Please add that to your list of priorities.

http://www.adventures.org/a/centers/

We need a picture of each base. On the web page of each base we need

1. a picture of the surroundings or a cityscape
2. a picture of the team at that base
3. a picture of each ministry of the base
4. a picture of “future planned ministry” (whatever that may look like – a building, people ministering, etc.)
5. a description of how to give & what it will do
6. of course each page needs some verbage attached to it

send Nathan jpeg pics of each of these along with a short description. If you have the time, please expand this. If you can send Nathan the pictures this week from your files or from the pictures on old project updates from your location, that would be great.

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