The Baptist Message recently joined the Internet community with the establishment
of its own website at BaptistMessage.com.
“Our new website is up and operational,” said Lynn P. Clayton,
editor of the state Baptist newspaper. “We are delighted to offer this
new service to our readers who are literally around the world.”
The Baptist Message recently joined the Internet community with the establishment
of its own website at BaptistMessage.com.
“Our new website is up and operational,” said Lynn P. Clayton,
editor of the state Baptist newspaper. “We are delighted to offer this
new service to our readers who are literally around the world.”
The webside has been operational for two months, but Clayton said the announcement
of the website was not made until policies for its operation had been established
by trustees, and the papers staff had made sure “all the bugs were
worked out.”
All the latest Louisiana news and feature articles including People/Places/Events
will be posted at the site each Tuesday. In addition, selected Southern Baptist
Convention news and features will be posted.
“Posting the Baptist Message weekly will serve several purposes,”
Clayton explained. “We are pleased that the many missionaries serving around
the world under appointment of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board
will be able to have access to the news of the churches in their home state
as soon as the paper is published.
“For decades, the Baptist Message has sent missionaries with ties to Louisiana
the paper. But they have been sent in bundles of a months issues at a
time, and by land mail. This has meant the issues were usually months old before
the missionaries received them. While the missionaries have expressed great
appreciation for the papers however they came, they will be delighted to know
of the new website.”
Clayton said the website puts the state Baptist paper into an Internet world
that has become such an integral part of American society.
“We realize younger readers are accustomed to finding their news and information
on the Internet,” Clayton said. “We want to put the paper in the form
of choice for Internet-oriented people so we will continue to be a strong voice
for Baptist concerns in the future.”
There will be no charge for accessing the website.
“We will also be able to provide a website advertising service for our
loyal advertisers at very reasonable costs,” Clayton said. “The same
policies that govern our advertising in the printed paper apply to the website.
Plus, we think we will have very attractive rates.”
Readers will also be able to communicate with the Baptist Message
staff via the website. The new e-mail addresses are:
advertising@baptistmessage.com
The Message also will maintain its baptistmessage1@hotmail.com
to give people time to change the address.
People will be able to subscribe to the Baptist Message on
the website.
The website was designed and built by Third
Generation Internet in Winnsboro.
“The website is clean, and users can get right into it,” said Lacy
Thompson, Baptist Message associate editor. “It also maintains archives
of all the articles that have been posted since we started using the website.
All a person has to do to see an old article is click on a file name.”