Tuesday, December 9, 2008

EA Design Contest

Okay, so my effort to create a design for our first Everyone’s Apostolic shirt has been a complete failure. I won’t make that mistake again. The shirt has been taken out of the store and we are back to square one. What to do? Though I may not be a fashion designer…hahaha, I do have a decent thinker, so here’s my proposal if you are up to it. You design the shirt. No…not just the other members that are getting this email, you. You design the shirt, if you’re up for the challenge, and we will have everyone on the site vote for the one that goes into production. Fun don’t you think?

Okay, so here’s how we proceed:

1. You can go to CustomInk.com and design the shirt there. Once you have a design you are comfortable with, just click the save/email link on the site and send me your design. My email address is support@everyonesapostolic.org. We will use your email to post the images to the polling survey. Once you have sent me the design, please visit here and post your design images for public record. You must post the images to the design contest discussion provided at the link above to be considered for the contest.

2. We need to know the sales price. Some folks commented that the shirt was a little pricey. Okay…so you are in charge of this too. Now EA will have to mark the shirts up a little, so plan on adding $5 to the cost of the shirt. The more colors, the more they are going to charge for the shirts, so play around with your options. Also, since we don’t know how many members actually want a shirt, estimate 10 shirts for each size when calculating the price.

3. Logo…EA doesn’t have a logo just yet, so if you have some ideas, this would be a great opportunity to explore them.

4. Just have fun. I have seen a great many of the member pages and I can testify that we have some very talented and creative folks, so I look forward to seeing your design projects.

Okay, so what if you win the design contest? If you win the design contest, EA will contribute $1 for each shirt sold toward your church technology fund.

What is a technology fund? Whatever the Pastor wants it to be. Funds dedicated so church members could have access to online educational courses is one idea.

Your ball, your court…game on :)

Lord Bless,

John Howell
Administrator
Everyone’s Apostolic

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Saturday, December 6, 2008

Sponsored Emails

Soon we will be offering sponsored email campaigns. As an advertiser you can can participate by sponsoring a newsletter. This newsletter will go to all participating members of Everyone's Apostolic. We plan to start with quarterly newsletters beginning in early 2009. This will be a fun and informative email that touches on a wide range of topics. More to follow.

If you are interested in sponsoring an email, subscribe to this blog and we will keep you updated. To subscribe, just click the subscribe link on the right side of the page.

Lord Bless,

John Howell
President
Everyone's Apostolic

Saturday, November 22, 2008

The Future Looks Bright

What an exciting time. Everyone's Apostolic, the social network for Apostolics, has taken flight. From a little known website with only 400 members in June 2008 to nearly 33,000 in November 2008, EA has experienced tremendous growth. The members, along with blessings of the Lord, are credited for this huge success. We also want to express our appreciation to Ning for providing the cutting edge platform that supports the rapid and continued growth EA is experiencing. The Ning platform allows Everyone's Apostolic to focus on the ministry and administration of the site while providing an ever evolving and scalable social network that is feature packed and easy to use.

So now what? What's in the future for Everyone's Apostolic? What is our long term plan? Well to answer, we must first go back to where and why we started. Everyone's Apostolic was created to provide a safe and clean site for Apostolics to fellowship. The Internet is full of untapped potential; however, venturing unaware and unprotected through the expansiveness of the web can leave one feeling dirty and violated should something ungodly be stumbled upon. Thus the EA ministry was born.

The future of Everyone's Apostolic looks bright. As our membership continues to grow we have more and more resources available to accomplish the biggest task of all, spreading the good news of the gospel. We are working to develop tools and resources that will help us, an Apostolic people, accomplish this task and impact our world on a massive scale like never before. This seems like an overwhelming and insurmountable mission, yet if we each do our part, together we can conquer the odds and the Lord will get the glory.

How do we start...together? The good news is...we already have. By becoming a member of Everyone's Apostolic you have taken the first step in our journey together. By networking with other Apostolics around the globe we are building a force for good. You may ask, how does networking with others affect our world? Simple, when thousands of Apostolics begin to fellowship, we begin to build a unified relationship that strengthens us on many levels. We are blessed by the ministry and are in a position to bless and encourage others.

We are working and have made progress in our efforts to network and partner with other Apostolic ministries to bring to you, the EA members, the best of the best.

What you can expect in the near future:
  • We are working with Apostolic School of Theology to bring the EA members an affordable, convenient, first class, education that can be done from the comfort of your own home or anywhere you choose for that matter... skiing anyone? It is important to note that we are endorsing Apostolic School of Theology as a option for higher education, but, to date, are not involved with the school beyond our endorsement.
  • Direct access on Everyone's Apostolic to Holy Ghost Radio. Tune in to hear twenty-four hour worship music and preaching from some of the most anointed ministers and artists of our time.
  • An ever growing product offering from various artists and authors in the Everyone's Apostolic Store.
  • A multiplicity of ministry opportunities that everyone can take part in are being developed. If you have an idea for ministry please let us know. We want to hear from you.
As you can see, we have a lot of exciting developments coming down the pipeline. If you have ideas, please contact us and give us your input. We want to hear from you.

May the Lord richly bless you, in Jesus Name.


John Howell
President
Everyone's Apostolic

Friday, August 29, 2008

Chat Room Coming

We are excited to announce that we will be integrating a new chat room into the site. We will be able to see who's online and even instant message others. We plan to roll this out in the next week or so. The chat room is in beta testing and we want to wait until most of the bugs are worked out before we launch.

Stay tuned for more upgrades that are in the pipeline.

Lord Bless,

John Howell
President
Everyone's Apostolic
www.everyonesapostolic.com

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Welcome To Everyone's Apostolic

Everyone's Apostolic, the social network for Apostolic Pentecostals, was created April 21st 2008. Since this time, Everyone's Apostolic has exploded with huge success. With over 20,000 members and growing, EA has shown that there can be success online without compromising.

There is much planned for the future and we are excited to see what the Lord has in store.

Best Regards,

John Howell
President
Everyone's Apostolic
www.everyonesapostolic.com