This site is for:

'Random church finding:

  1. you can find churches in your area.
  2. mapped on Google earth
  3. find all of a given denomination within x miles of where you are
  4. seed with data from superpages.com, but allow users to add missing churches, add phone numbers, assistance offers, help wanted, etc.

for members of a church: 1. email for everybody in the church with an appropriate email domain 1. distribution lists for prayer alerts

  1. scheduled events for members and the town
  2. forums for each church and class and group - do them by themselves using our shell site code

for community

  1. churches can post studies, audio, and video to attract visitors, new members, or as a public service to others
  2. live streaming of services, public forums for topical areas, scheduled events like harun does

Other attributes

  1. this is where it would make sense to show the sunday school helps to each community
  2. And offer net bibles by the case for missions, new members, companion CDs, etc.
  3. Index all of these with our search - and their external site's contents too.

Best Churches dot com page from exec wiki 7Oct2007 da


-chris' feature list from Q207mtg.
features:

  1. build on raw superpages data (master list of churches, locations, address, website, phone number, etc.)
  2. tablestakes 2.0 community tools: blogs, share/swap, cafe's
  3. media: video/audio/pics information
    1. professional church sermons, men's ministry teaching, wed night prayer etc.
    2. user contributed content
  4. user ranking/rating system (what's good)
  5. index by geography, denomination, topic etc.
  6. mandatory categories (eg. youth group - if missing where is closest available)
  7. meet/exceed http://www.mychurch.org/