Our Website Explained

Published 8/31/2005

Those of you who have visited our website at various times have probably noticed that it is constantly changing.  Every page shows the upcoming events.  The events listed are normally shown a week at a time with the exception of the Awana page which shows a month of events.  All of the events that have been entered in to our calendar can be seen on the calendar pages either as a list of events or as a monthly calendar showing the events for the month.  Once the events have passed they are no longer displayed in the lists, but they remain in the calendar for historical reference.

 We upload sermons on a weekly basis.  Normally we keep three months worth of sermons on the server.  We remove the oldest ones when the space we have on the server gets too full.

 On several of the pages we have lists of articles.  Often an article will be displayed on the main page first, and then as time passes it may be moved to a less prominent location.  If the article has dated information or if we feel it should not remain listed on our website indefinitely we will attach an expiration date to it.  Once this date is reached the article will be archived.  The article will remain available at the very same URL as before, but none of the pages will advertise the location of the article in the lists of articles.  By archiving the article rather than deleting it we are able to insure that bookmarks and links from other sites will resolve to the original page rather than an error message.  The archived articles may be missing some images if we need to remove image files to free up space on the server, but the rest of the information will remain available. It is our hope that our website will provide you with relevant, accurate and up to date information, but we do not want to remove information that someone needs.  Our archive process attempts to walk the balance between providing new information and remaining a source of information that a person has seen previously.