The last quarter of 2011 was a busy one for Church Plant Media. If you haven't been following our blog, let me catch you up on all of the exciting changes... In October, we lowered our price to $1,000 for any gospel loving ministry. In November, we partnered with Rice Bowls to help feed orphans around the world through the Red Bowl Challenge from Thanksgiving until New Year's Day. Then in December, we released a few new website designs and we completely refreshed our easy-to-use Content Management System. In addition to all of that, each month we also launched a number of new websites on our system.
We thank God for the opportunity to serve gospel ministries across the globe. In the past 2 months we have been honored to create website designs for a number of ministries we love and respect in the USA, Canada, the UK, and down-under in Australia. Although we only did the design for their projects, John MacArthur’s team recently launched the new Grace to You and Grace Advance websites. We also partnered with author, blogger, and pastor, Tim Challies on the website for Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto, Canada. Lastly, we recently launched a website for Steve Chong and Kirkplace in Sydney, Australia. In recent years Steve has been mentored by Mark Driscoll and instructed by John Piper, as he leads the RICE Movement.
These past few months we have continued to serve a diverse group of ministries with full custom designs and new design styles. A few of our recent favorites were for a large Methodist church in Texas, a large evangelical charismatic church in California, a brand new Acts 29 Network church plant in Australia, and another A29 church in California. We also did our annual re-launch for our good friends over at the Exponential Conference, the largest gathering of planters on the planet. Lastly, we did a full color customization for ChurchWorks Network, a brand new Baptist church planting network based in Texas.
We usually wait a number of months before featuring our favorite designs, but we did not want another day to pass without sounding the horn about the new full custom design for our friends at The Master's College. A little over 1 year ago, we were given the opportunity to redesign their Undergrad Admissions site and a sister site for their Resolved Conference. Although we have only been providing the designs for their team to build, we have built a lasting friendship with their team. We are currently in the process of a redesign for Grace to You, John MacArthur's radio ministry. We'll be sure to give a shout out once that design is live.
Our bloggage has been bare these past few months, but we are still very much alive and well. We have been devoting a ton of time to our new CMS refresh, and we think you'll like what you see when we release it in a few weeks. Over the past 4 months, we launched nearly triple the number of sites than we had launched at this time last year. Out of these new sites, we wanted to share 12 of our favorite designs. We are also stoked to announce the re-launch of the Exponential Conference, the largest gathering of church planters on the planet.
As we head into the summer months, we wanted to share 10 more sites that we have launched in the 2nd Quarter. A few of these sites were current CPM partners who decided to update their look and feel with a new design. Also numbered among these 10 sites, is New Covenant Bible Church, the church plant that our blogging friend, Justin Taylor, is now a part of. Finally, we are very excited to announce two newly launched CPM service partners: Child of God Ministry Concepts, lead by Carlfred Giles, and Housetop Media, lead by Derrick Jeror.
As we move into the 2nd Quarter of 2010, we wanted to share 10 different sites that have gone live since the beginning of the year. Numbered among these are a 3 generation church, a few brand new church plants in the US and the United Arab Emirates, as well as a 5 year old church plant who has already planted a number of churches. We are also very thankful to be serving our good friends at the Acts 29 Network, and author, blogger, and pastor, Tullian Tchividjian with his congregation, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church.
Now that we are well on our way into 2010, we wanted to take a look back at some of the PLUS and MAX sites that we launched in the 2nd half of 2009. As always, our Creative Director, Andrew Bradshaw, knocked these out of the park with his kung fu master design skills. Here are just a few examples of his work.
Earlier this year, our team was hand picked to serve John MacArthur and the staff of Grace Community Church, to create a new web site design for the 2010 Resolved Conference. Early registration is now open for the conference, which will be held from June 25-28 at the Palm Springs Convention Center.