A huge, huge, huge THANK YOU to our dear friends Jason Lazzaro & Kleber for GTD's NEW WEBSITE!!! Jason designed the layout, and Kleber has been working hard for nearly 3 months at turning that design into reality. The biggest challenge was very technical. Our old website has been stuck on our former website host's platform for many years, but they went out of business and left everything on autopilot so we have not been able to contact a human being for the technical information we needed to transfer our email accounts that are linked to our former host's platform. We could easily redirect the website address to a new host, but without the technical data we would lose all of our company email addresses. Everytime we tried to resolve it in the past we hit dead-end after dead-end so we have been stuck on our "blogsite" for over a decade trying to use that as a makeshift website while still maintaining our company emails. Kleber to the rescue!! Over the summer Kleber was on the Family Adventure Trip with Calvary Church and we were inner tubing down a river when he said in his awesome Brazilian accent, "Doug, I work in the IT world, is there anything I can do to help you guys in your ministry?" I said, "Yes!!!!" and then went on to describe the technical problem. He said, "I think I can help you with that." He went back home and spent a couple of weeks during his spare time to help us secure our email address while transferring our url to a new website host. Because we couldn't actually get that technical information that was needed it was still a roll of the dice if his solution would work, but after 10+ years of being stuck we were willing to take the chance of losing the email addresses in order to move on with a new website. Well, it worked!! Kleber did it!!! And then he began building our new website. Throughout the process he had to pause the progress as we left town to run events and then again while the banquet work was increasing. We weren't able to get everything updated and completed by the day of our banquet, but we were able to launch it that night as a work in progress with a new goal of completing everything by the end of the year. Anyways, we love how it looks and all the progress that has been made for the first time in over 10 years!!! Thank you so much Kleber & Jason for turning our dreams into reality!! It's happening, and you guys are an answer to prayer!!! Our new website can be found at:
www.goingthedistance.org
We are making weekly progress on it as we run events and follow-up with our banquet thank you's & post banquet work. Ministry is a total team effort, and God blessed us with some amazing team players!!!
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