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When I came to Germany in June 2003, I thought that I was going to have an Internet/e-mail Bible correspondence school. But such never became past my new website for it and e-mail a few thousand of the 89 courses to people in over 40 countries. Only one returned one of the courses with her answers. Many wrote e-mails saying how much they liked what I sent and they sent them to friends. Since December 28. 2004, I have e-mailed over 25,000 Bible studies and articles. In October 2005, I got involved in Yahoo 360 and learned how to blog. That consumed a lot of time and the world news events required me to do more intercessory prayer too, so I was being overwhelmed even though I had over 40 hours per week to be on the computer for the ministries. In January 2007, a new Internet friend of mine wanted me to send him almost everything I had. I e-mailed him more than I ever have done anyone else. And I thought that I could only attach 7 files to each email. Then finally, after I have requested one or two volunteer secretaries to help me keep up with such e-mailing, reading and responding to e-mails, and keeping up with the Yahoo 360 messages and blogs and comments to blogs, in the middle of a February 2007 night the Holy Spirit gave me the idea of using the "Files" section of the Yahoo Groups software. I got so excited and almost jumped out of bed to work on it. It is almost like being able to offer others a small extra harddrive or article/Bible study library for them to use for responding to e-mail requests, doing Yahoo 360 blogging, and posting in Christian forums.
At that time each Yahoo group could have 20 MB in the Files section and members of the group can download any of the files they would like. These groups were not to be like the ones that I became turned off to the year before. They were to be just sources of information and the only commenting will be about the best articles and Bible studies of the group members. If anyone thinks some of the items should be rated higher or lower than I did, he or she could tell me in the appropriate group's Message section. The Yahoo Group software orders the files differently than the way that is done by Microsoft software: the items with the tilde (~) in front of their titles fall to the bottom instead of going to the top. After I had made 14 different subject groups for the indicated purpose, transferring files one by one (no multi-files drag and dropping), Yahoo expanded the storage space in each "Files" section of each group to 100 MB. So I compiled my items into 5 subject groups, transferring files one by one. My e-mail ministry was made easier because I was able to refer to an appropriate Yahoo group of the 5 when responding to need for certain information. But the groups did not become very active. I did have some volunteer USA individuals who have helped me in the management of the 6 groups I own.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christianity_Basics_Source_1/ (85% of 100 MB)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christianity_Basics_Source_2/ (61% of 100 MB)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psychological_and_counseling_concerns/ (82% of 100 MB)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/End_Times_concerns (71% of 100MB)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/for_discerning/ (70% of 100 MB)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/for_daily_improving (my 1st group which was started March 2, 2005)
If you want to sign up for any of them, you can do one of the following options so that you won�t be bothered by the messages e-mails: *Daily compilation *Special Notices - Receive only important email notices from the group moderator. *Web Only - Don't get notified of the latest happenings. Read messages only on the web. But on the next page, there is something easier and much better--
But on the next page, there is something easier and much better-- |
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