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we got The City
Mon, Aug 17th
A couple years back, Pastor Zack Hubert of Mars Hill Church left his stud job at amazon.com to devote all his time to building a social networking website specifically designed for the rhythms of Christian community. He built The City and deployed it at Mars Hill with great success. Rather than spurring mere virtual community, as other social networking sites are wont to do, The City reinforces actual community, structuring itself around physical groups of people as they live together on mission.
Zondervan caught wind of what Mars Hill was up to and swooped in to buy the website for $4 million, hire Zack to continue developing it, and set him up with a penthouse office suite in downtown Seattle and a team to distribute the product to congregations around the globe. In negotiations with Zondervan, Pastor Zack secured a lifetime discount for Acts 29 churches. Enter The Painted Door. I spent two days in admin training last week and presto, thepainteddoor.onthecity.org is now officially up and running. You'll need an invitation to join the site and set up a password, and I'll be sending those out soon after we land in Chicago next month.
For now, here's a screen shot of this beautiful piece of software that will help us organize as a church and be more effective in reaching our city. I'm stoked!