African American Churches Get On the Information Superhighway with ChurchFolk.Com & Churchfolk Radio

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) -- ChurchFolk® Communications continues to thrust the African American Church into the cyber-highway fast lane with ChurchFolk.com, the first interactive website, Churchfolk® Radio, an online Christian Radio and Magazine offering a wide range of information targeting the urban Christian community. In light of growing concerns among political, corporate and community leaders about how best to bridge the digital divide between communities of color and the information superhighway, The Churchfolk® Communications network offers valuable, useful products, services and information that meets the unique needs of ministers and their congregations.

ChurchFolk.com charges a nominal fee for annual membership to churches throughout the nation and the world, entitling them to a comprehensive roster of complimentary services. Some of those services include the U.S. Church Directory, e-mail for the Christian community, Web Design and Web Hosting, banner ads, online Christian radio programming (Churchfolk® News), Churchfolk® Book Club, Churchfolk® Greeting Cards, bible study programs and reference guides, a listing of Christian educational institutions throughout the nation, links to other churches or Christian-related sites, Christian chat rooms, prayer requests, message board, calendar of events, on-line bible in several languages and versions (King James, New American Standard, New International Version, Revised Standard Version), a bible dictionary, sermons on-line and Christian products mall and much more.

According to ChurchFolk® Communications founder, Brian Grant, ChurchFolk.com has the largest African American on-line church directory and database in the nation with more than 50,000 churches listed now, and more than 80,000 projected in the near future. Grant explains that he is able to provide most member-services for a nominal fee because the revenue-base of ChurchFolk.com consists of corporations and businesses, Who want to advertise and promote their services within the African American church community." With minority consumer buying power exceeding $600 billion annually, ChurchFolk.com presents a prime opportunity for companies to introduce their products and services to a historically loyal consumer-base represented by the global Christian community.

A recent poll conducted by AOL and Jupiter Research reported that Black online users are expected to grow at an 8.4% clip from 2004 to 2007, double the rate of the white audience. Pew Internet & American Life Project found blacks were more likely than whites to use the Internet to find information on religion, jobs and housing. The study said a striking difference" is that one-third of African American Web users, 33% used the Internet to get religious and spiritual information. Operating as a portal," ChurchFolk.com is a gateway to all kinds of information pertaining to the denominational, non-denominational and inter-denominational religious community.

Grant expresses, Overall, what we are doing with ChurchFolk.com is providing information, services and products that are beneficial to ministers and the church community. The key to bridging the digital divide is to provide content, information, and services that meet the needs of the community it serves. I consider ChurchFolk.com to be a niche in ‘Christian Cyber-land that meets the needs of a unique community, which spends billions of dollars in the American economy. With churches as the backbone of the African American community, ChurchFolk.com is the vehicle through which church leaders and their congregations can come together and share information, services and products with the world." For more information, log-on to ChurchFolk.com and experience a great interactive website for the urban Christian community.