Section 1 Ministry Update- Well it is almost thanksgiving and we at bible.org have a lot to be thankful for. As the new Executive Director I want to share with you some of the ways God is blessing the ministry.

•  In June we successfully completed a major overhaul of the site and moved all our 6,000 articles from our old bible.org website software to new software that will enable us to better serve our missionaries and our non English speaking users with new features and content.
• In the first ten months of 2009 we have added over 275 articles to the site.
• We launched a prayer ministry for those actively involved in Bible.org ministry. We invite you to join us in this critical prayer ministry (email, Prayer Ministry and you will receive a weekly email).
• Since 12/08 we have seen an increase of traffic of 52% with 31% of that increase coming since we upgraded the site to the new software and this past month we had over million visits from 218 countries/territories. And 17,650 were on dial-up accounts.
• Users of Bible.org have downloaded over 1800 Gigabytes of Trust worthy biblical material to places including  the Middle East, Cuba and China.
• The NET Bible has been downloaded over 330,000 times.
  
• Our Women’s Executive Committee has redesigned their ministry page to better define resources for women in all areas of Christian service and they added new authors to their Tapestry blogging activities. Their blogs have served more than 20,000 readers.
• We are actively developing a users social networking site and will make it free to the Bible.org community who want to “Publish” their material for others to share. You will be able to Blog and make your own support group site for your Sunday school or Bible study class.
• We have significantly expanded our volunteer program. Any one can volunteer see Volunteer Opportunities page. We have opportunities for all to see the volunteers page on users.bible.org.
  • Several of our sermons are in audio only. We have assigned volunteers to transcribe the Audio so people can search and read the sermon text. (More and more people are listening to the many sermons)
    
  •  We have a volunteer who is doing tech support for the forum.
• We have significantly increased our volunteer Translator program and have set up a translator support group/a> for the translators and published our first newsletter. Would you or your missions group like to translate one of our 6000 articles? See link.
  • We expanded our list articles by language and set up a matrix showing all the articles in each language that are currently being translated by our volunteers and those that have been translated with the ability to click on the page ID to view the page.
  • We would like to interact with mission committees and see how we might better support the missionaries they support with their missions budget. Email us for more information.
• Our Ministry partner sabda.org made significant improvement in the NET Bible online program. His team increased the search performance, added map locations to all the places in the bible, added museum art for many passages in the bible, added hymns, added bible lexicons/dictionaries and the word net dictionary (example check out reward).
• In the last month we added a Bible.org Facebook fans page that now has over 3000 fans. If you have a Facebook account join our Facebook fans page http://www.facebook.com/bible.org.
• We have started a labs.bible.org site where we tell other web sites and bloggers about our NET Bible widgets that add the NET Bible to your blog, your site, Facebook page. Our NET Bible Verse Tagger adds Bible verse popups when a person mouses over a verse reference on any website.

Read the other Sections of the News Letter

1- Ministry Update:      (This Page)	2- Ministry Impact: (email from users)	3- Financial Update:	4- New Projects Update:	5- Industry Update: