2009 – a year of highs and lows

We’re coming to the end of another year. This means that WordLive is almost two years old – Happy Birthday is the 1st January.

The year has seen us build on the success of our first year with more people than ever deepening their relationship with God through reading the Bible and praying using Wordlive.

We’ve also developed our facebook and twitter presence, and we’d love for you to join in the conversation there. Our YouTube account is also hosting all the WordLive vidoes, making it very easy for you to embed and share them with your own communities.

WordLive itself went through an upgrade (lovingly called WordLive 1.5 to the team). It now has an image each day as well as tools to share each and every activity around the net.

But the year has also been painful for the team. The current economic climate has hit us and we’ve had to look at new ways of delivering WordLive content in the future. As part of a bigger SU re-shaping our team has been affected, and we have had to say goodbye to several wonderful people.

So the year has been what most years are; times of joy and sadness, contentment and yearning. And next year will be the same, although the specifics are not yet known.

One thing we can be sure of though, is that we can have faith, and trust in God.

What are your memories of 2009?

Busy, away and a review

I suppose I should apologise for the recent lack of updates... sorry. There, now I have absolved myself I will offer the weakest of excuses. I was on holiday over Christmas, and just before, and since getting back into the office, I have been playing catch-up (that isn't a game, but work). I have also been away at a conference and struggling with getting out of the bed before 9:00am each morning, I suppose that teaches me for not getting up before 9:00am for the three weeks over Christmas.

I'd like to send a big thank you to Lesley who provided all the prayer items for the past few weeks, such a project as WordLive needs a lot of prayer and without the prayer we have received we wouldn't have got this far. However, there is a long way to go, a lot to do and 2008 will keep the whole team extremely busy.

We have also had a great review posted by Mark Brown in Australia. He makes some great points and I wonder whether he has seen our 'to do' list for 2008? I think everything he mentions in his wish list are things that we are thinking about, putting into the mix or are currently covering via Facebook. Anyway, you can read more about what Mark says here.

Now, where is that to do list...