A few months ago, I reported to our Executive team the impact of the recently redesigned second.org. Since its launch in late March, our number of page views have doubled…reaching as much as 2.2 million in a single month. Today, we have 3,261 registered users, 1,000+ of which registered within the first week of launch. Every month, our registered users send an average of 75,000+ emails to their respective community groups…coordinating group activities, announcements, prayer and care. We have been very pleased with the results.

Special thanks to our technology partners who help make this happen: Origin Design (for initial design, images, html, flash, and CSS) and RoundedCube for our CMS implementation, Google Mini search, and custom development. Last but not least….BIG thanks to our own in-house dev team. Great job gang!

Here is a short video produced by Origin that give a quick overview the new second.org:

Unfortunately, the video does not highlight the online community groups.

The following video still gives me chills. This video was produced in 2006 for the Second Baptist Church family to challenge them to give towards the expansions of three of our existing campuses and add two additional campuses (in theaters at that time). Today, all five campuses are thriving. It was an aggressive venture that has paid off in thousands of changed lives for Jesus Christ. We are all indeed blessed to be a blessing to others!

I occasionally get asked, “Who is blogging at Second?”  There are several who blog, but most of them are personal blogs whose content often spills over into their ministry. So here is a list of official and unofficial blogs and sites of Second Baptist Church and its staff. The church makes a distinction between official and unofficial to distinguish between the personal thoughts and opinions of it staff versus the official positions, perspectives and views of the church.

This fall, Second Baptist Church (Woodway Campus), Houston, TX will host a regional gathering of Church IT professionals called the CITRT (Church IT Roundtable). This gathering is more an unconference or a barcamp rather than a conference. So if you are in the Texas and Lousiana areas, come join us Sunday evening, November 1 and all day Monday, November 2.

More details to come, but in the interim read more about how we faciliate the Church IT Roundtable.