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Flame Conference

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:46:28 GMT

The Flame conference is a Christian men's retreat established over 50 years ago and operating in the Anglican diicese of Toronto and Montreal. Their new website was launched today.

Starting next year the site will offer online registration with credit card processing, and offer attendees to conferences the ability to sign in and listen to teaching sessions they may wish to revisit at a later date.

Westmount Park Church Facelift

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:40:40 GMT

WPC got a facelift today in the form of a new collection of layouts almost four years to the day after after the launch of their Ecclesiact website.

Pastor Werner was looking for something more 'bloggy' than their previous layout, and this new look for their website brings an assortment of data to the front page in an uncluttered way to let visitors connect with the latest offerings from Westmount Ministries to act as a gateway into deeper site interaction.

On a technical note, the site makes extensive use of the new CSS3 layout techniques now available to all of our sites thanks to the CSS3PIE library recently added to all editions of Ecclesiact - see http://www.ecclesiact.com/build/2.27.0.1677. These new methods are used for adding drop shadows, curvy boxes and graduated backgrounds to give a very contemporary layout with a bare minimum of HTML 'clutter' while still working with IE6, 7 and 8 which normally don't recognize these cutting-edge stylesheet techniques.

Martha's Table

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:07:30 GMT

St. Andrew's provides a soup and sandwich lunch every Thursday from 11:30am to 1:00pm in it's church hall. All are welcome to join this opportunity for a good meal and fellowship. Listen to Jim play out old favourites on the piano, watch Helen manage 70-100 patrons through her tables. Feel free to donate $3 for lunch or if times are tight, have lunch on us. PS, all the soups are homemade from kitchens around our community. All are welcome, come join us.

Welcoming Arms

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:07:30 GMT

In the fall of 2006 an outreach ministry called Welcoming Arms was formed. This ministry was under discussion for some years by the pastors of a number of churches in Aurora, searching for a way to work together to optimize the financial and human resources used to help the needy families in Aurora. A pilot was launched between:

Our Lady of Grace
Aurora United
Trinity Anglican
St. Andrew's Presbyterian

whose congregations donated monthly funds and provided willing volunteers. The purpose was threefold:

Provide needy families in Aurora with food vouchers, bus tickets, cleaning supplies and toilettries
Provide information on resources available in York Region
Provide a listening ear in an environment that encourages and does not judge

The mission statement was, an still is: "In loving partnership, we seek to be the hands and feet of Christ by promoting human, physical,and spiritual well being in our community."

In 2009 the Aurora Cornerstone joined the other churches with more talented, compasionate and willing volunteers. The work goes on and the need is great. In 2009 we had 1169 visits representing families with a total of 3200 adults and children.

This ministry is a solid example fo churches of different denominations working together in harmony towards Christ's commandment to us to help those in need.

Thornhill United Church

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:52:38 GMT

Thornhill United wanted a way to advertise a wide range of community activities in their neighbourhood, and make use of multiple 'Gallery Fader' controls to use the header space of their website to best advantage.

The church 'notice board' on their home page is a clever mix of real photograph and floating text mean that their notices can be kept 'up to the minute' with just a right click of an administrator's mouse.

Aurora Prayer Breakfast

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:47:50 GMT

A new website for a new initiative - the Aurora Mayor's Prayer Breakfast aims to bring people from all churches in Aurora together to pray for their community, province and country.

This site has an online ticket purchasing system which generates personalised tickets for all attendees, complete with barcodes to allow event managers to keep a track of who's coming.

Thanks to Michelle Pereira who worked on the design for the site, together with posters, sponsorship package and prayer cards.

Skip Prokop

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:42:59 GMT

Skip Prokop is an accomplished Christian musician and member of The Paupers, Lighouse and Mercy Train and continues to tour extensively.

His website includes photo albums, video wall and discography pages spanning a 40 year career in the music industry.

Dundas Calvin Church

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:24:16 GMT

Dundas Calvin Church in Dundas Ontario are our first new web site of 2009, unveiling their new Ecclesiact website on January 1st - a great way to start the new year!

Ministry Resources

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:50:30 GMT

One of a network of interconnected sites commissioned by the Salvation Army in Canada, the Ministry Resources site provides resources and training materials for evangelism through their churches in Canada.

Their new Ecclesiact website incorporates many of the features developed for the Faith and Friends magazine website published last month.

Movie Hunter

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:23:48 GMT

Movie Hunter is a commercial distributer specialising in supplying video products to a range of niche markets.

Their new Ecclesiact website is our first to feature an expanding 'SD' type menu system and makes extensive use of themes to provide layout customisation based on the category of product being viewed.