MissionsPlace.com provides a hosting service designed exclusively for Missionaries and staff of Missions ministries to create and maintain their own website or blog. This free service to you is part of our ministry.

We have two basic goals for this service. One is to get you quickly online and able to communicate your life and ministry to those who follow and support your work through the incredible medium of the internet, and more specifically, through blogging tools. Our second goal is simply to glorify God and see the Great Commission fulfilled by encouraging more missionaries to share their lives, work and what God is doing around the world.

So what’s a blog anyway?

You might already have one. Or you might think that blogging is for some young, hip missionary with a lip piercing. A Blog, however, is simply a journal or “log” on the web. A web log. A blog. The great thing about them is their ability to be so much more than just a journal. They are networkable, searchable, shareable, categorizable, subscribable, customizable, and just plain cool. No lip piercing required.

A blog is easy to set up, easy to keep, and easy to share with others. And MissionsPlace.com is a blog just for missionaries… so when it comes to the obstacles of communication from the field, we feel your pain. And we have free solutions.

• Why choose MissionsPlace.com over other, less-anointed blogging services out there?
• Free!
• Hosted on MissionsPlace.com’s secure servers
• Tech support from fellow missionaries
• Customized templates that reflect your ministry
• Built in tools for missionaries, like mapping, online donations, etc.
• Connect to other MissionsPlace.com hosted missionaries and missions ministries
• Connect with new supporters by making your ministry searchable and browsable by country, or missionary name
• Creates an online community of missionaries, ministries, and a single, massive testimony of God at work throughout the world all together in one place

How does it work?

If you are a short-term or long-term missionary, a missions mobilizer, or work for a missions ministry, you can sign up for your free website/blog right now. After we approve your application, you can choose one of our templates that are designed to reflect various geographic areas of ministry, or choose one of more than 100 generic templates. Many templates even allow you to customize your header image with your own picture or logo. It’s all up to you. It might help for you to get some ideas from the already active sites linked from the main page here.

Your website can be anything you want it to be. Simple and static informational pages about your family and ministry. Or an active, running blog. You can upload pictures and embed videos if you like. You can link to other websites or the pages of other missionaries. You can open your blog up to comments from the outside. You can even leave the whole site or individual posts hidden and protected with a password if your work is in a sensitive area of the world.

Keeping your personal website maintained is your deal. We’ll help you get it set up of course. And we are there if you have questions along the way. But the day to day (or month to month) updates are up to you. No worries though, even this is easy. The sites are built with a powerful tool called Wordpress. This allows you to have a backdoor entrance into your site via the internet. Here you will find familiar tools (similar the text editor in Microsoft Word) to make changes and add content to your pages. And if you don’t have internet access, you can even make updates by sending an email that will automatically post the content to your blog (coming soon).

Can you be a blogger?

The truth is, if you have the most basic of computer skills, and a interest in communicating your ministry beyond the scope of a couple printed newsletters each year, then you’re almost there. For those of you who send regular email updates to supporters, you are effectively (but not efficiently) blogging already. And if you have access to an occasional, albeit slow, internet connection, or are able to send an email in any way… then you can maintain a MissionsPlace.com website. Also, if you already have a blog with Blogger, Wordpress, or somewhere else, you can quickly move it over to MissionsPlace.com with everything intact.

More questions?

Read our FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions), view the Support Site for a step-by-step on getting started, or submit your questions using this form.