In 1998 I created a new website to be a ministry in itself, and also to be a model for others of how an Internet ministry could work.  It's called The Ranch: A Place of Healing and Restoration.  

My intent was to create an inviting atmosphere that would draw both believers and non-believers into a closer relationship with God.  In fact, even though there is no "real" ranch, many people send me notes after visiting The Ranch to say they had a deeply moving experience similar to one they might have at a real retreat center!

Go to theranch.org to take a look at The Ranch home page.  (Remember, to get back to this window, use your BACK and FORWARD buttons in your browser.)

Go to the section marked "Read a Story" to see testimonies of people living today who have been touched by the Living God.  If you have a few minutes, I hope you'll read some of the stories, including my own (you'll get a feel for how God uses the Internet plus a little more insight into your workshop leader at the same time!)  To go straight to the testimonies, go to theranch.org/stories/testimonies.htm.

Adding text to a website is the easiest and most popular way to communicate a message on the Internet.  Most search engines index all the words in text documents so someone searching for topics like homosexuality, loneliness, suicide, and so on, will pull up a variety of websites, including yours or mine.  Then we'll be able to point them to God's perspective on the topic for which they're searching.

Text is just one way to communicate, though.  Let's take a look at audio and video.

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