Shanda Stiles

After more than six months of planning, praying collaborating and designing, Priority Ministries is pleased to unveil phase one of its new website! This redesign is the first major overhaul since 2007 and merges Priority’s main website with its Glo Girl Blog in order to operate under one WordPress platform. It boasts new graphics, new layouts, easier navigation and greater functionality. Plus, the Priority staff will now be able to handle much of the everyday updates.

Future phases of improvements include reformatting the Priority “store” in order to have more flexibility, and incorporating the ability to offer downloadable products as well.

This project could NOT have been done without these fabulous people:

Our Priority Partners – So many of you supported this project with your one-time gift or through your regular monthly gifts. Thank you so much for allowing God to use you to bless us (and our Glo Girl community) so much!

Shanda Stiles – Thanks to our fabulous IT and Events Director, Shanda, who clocked in many, many hours with her trusty laptop. Thank you, Shanda, for going above and beyond!

Neil Luft of Internet Imagineering – Thank you to Neil who has worked with us on the technical, back end of this project. You take the things that make our eyes cross and make them appear easy-peasy! Plus, you had to work with a handful of women, which means LOTS of, “Hmmm… I think we changed our minds!”

Julie Riley of jRiley Creative – Thanks to Julie who is responsible for all things “pretty” on our website! Your artistic contributions are a.m.a.z.i.n.g! We love you!

The Lord has blessed us with this platform and we are so grateful! May He use this website and blog to His glory, to encourage thousands of women to give God glory and priority in their everyday lives!

Ever wonder what we’re up to at our ministry office? Here’s a list of projects we’re working on and would appreciate your prayers. We also love your ideas, so drop us a note!

Behind the Scenes Project List

So, here are the major projects and ideas that we are currently working on behind the scenes at Priority. Some are almost complete; some are still in the brainstorming phase. But as you read through them, you will be able to see what we do all day and how you can pray for us!

Website/Blog Redesign

So much has changed in cyber land since we first designed our current website in 2007! While we updated it and tweaked it quite a bit when we began the Glo Girl Blog in 2011, it’s time for a major overhaul! New graphics! New layouts! Easier navigation! And most importantly, more functionality that will make it easier for us to manage it on the backend. But honestly, this is the kind of stuff that makes our eyes cross! Thankfully, we have professionals to help, and we can’t wait to unveil the final product!

Conversion from Constant Contact to MailChimp

This probably means nothing for you, but it’s a booger of a project for us. Over 9,000 people subscribe to our electronic mailing list, and we’re transitioning to a different platform in order to manage those subscriptions more effectively. MailChimp will make it easier for us to customize our subscriptions according to what our readers and supporters want. We just have to learn how to use it first!

 

Redevelop/Rethink email newsletter

Remember our monthly eNewsletter, You Glo Girl? So do we! It is what we used before the blog as a regular way to encourage women through articles, Scripture Art and information. Now that we do most of our communication through the Glo Girl Blog, we’re reevaluating how best to share info and encouragement to all of our subscribers on a regular basis. We know not everyone wants to see us in their inboxes every day, so we’re working on a solution to keep you informed on a regular, but less frequent, basis.

 

FREE eBook

For a long time, we’ve wanted to offer a free eBook on the Glo Girl Blog. So Emily is writing a full-fledged book inspired by Laurie’s Front Porch Friday video series, Quiet Time Myths. It will elaborate and expand on how to have a guilt-free quiet time and expose even more myths associated with having “perfect” quiet times. Everyone who subscribes to the Glo Girl Blog will be able to get this pdf book for free!

 

Warrior Princess

Back in the spring, Laurie video-taped a four-part series on spiritual warfare at Sagemont Church. We’re compiling those messages and creating supplemental material to make available in an easy and affordable format that Christian ministry leaders will be able to use in their churches and small groups. It’ll be kind of like a retreat-in-a-box, and we know you’ll love it!

 

Devotional Book

So… Laurie and Emily want to write a devotional book. Yeah, that’s as far as this project has gotten so far, but we’re praying for divine intervention that will allow this to happen, and allow it to happen in time for Christmas, 2013. Yikes. That’s soon!