MISSIONBOARD.COM UNVEILS NEW SITE FOR CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES

MISSIONBOARD.COM UNVEILS NEW SITE FOR CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES

Monday, June 12, 2000

Missionboard.com (http://www.missionboard.com), a pioneer in advanced communications for Christian ministries, today unveiled a new Internet portal designed to facilitate information exchange between Christians and Christian ministries worldwide.

According to Ryan C. Heneise, co-founder of Missionboard.com and the portals architect, This site is a boon for every type of ministry from every denomination. Until now, it has been difficult or impossible for people to find information about missionaries or ministries with which they are not directly involved."

Visitors to the site can search Missionboard.coms directory of ministry-oriented websites, some hosted by Missionboard.com, others hosted separately. The directory contains ministries in locations ranging from Accra, Ghana to Limbé, Haiti to Seoul, Korea.

The advent of the Internet has brought into mainstream culture, even in impoverished countries, a level of technology that makes it possible to communicate instantly with thousands of people at the same time," said Heneise. At a time when hundreds of thousands of people are going out as missionaries, this technology is needed more than ever."

Missionboard.com is much more than just a search engine or Internet portal. In addition to the ability to quickly register their existing website in Missionboard.coms search engine, users can easily create and edit web pages using eWebEditPro software. EWebEditPro is provided to Missionboard.com via a cooperative agreement with New Hampshire-based Ektron, Inc. (http://www.ektron.com). This revolutionary software allows users to author site content and perform ongoing content updates and additions with a familiar Microsoft® Word©-like interface that appears directly in the browser. Users pages created using eWebEditPro are hosted by Missionboard.com and made available to visitors searching the site.

The last two years have seen an explosion in high quality websites for churches and ministries. For these ministries, Missionboard.com offers free site registration. While Similar to Yahoo!® or Lycos®, Missionboard.coms search engine is geared exclusively toward Christian missions and ministries. Ministries registering their sites with Missionboard.com will enjoy the benefit of exposure to Missionboard.coms users and thousands of visitors each month.

About Missionboard.com

Based in Green Cove Springs, Florida, Missionboard.com is the first major interdenominational Internet portal for Christian missions and ministries. The companys charter is to provide an improved form of communication among Christian ministries through various media, specifically, but not limited to, the Internet. Missionboard.com is operating closely with International Christian Education Fund (http://www.icef.org), a nonprofit sector organization.