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What's New

Here are some of the recent changes and additions.

If you get lost, there is a site map listing every page on the site.

6/9/05

New pages from the summer of 2004 and Pentecost 2005 added to the Picture Gallery.

6/6/05

I am in the process of updated the site.  Current updates have been beend to the home page, Rector's Message (two months worth), Deacon's Bench, Outreach, News, Stewardship, Standing Notices and Alpha (updated to reflected that it is inactive at this time).

Soon all of the sermon's will be updated along with new pictures. 

3/17/05 

I just love the end of a term.  Tends to slow up my website work but we are back up to date.  The regular areas are updated with some minor changes to the Holy Week page to set it up for this year.  I am beginning to do some looking into Movable Type and other RSS syndication features for use on the sermons, news and this page.  I hope to decide on a direction during the summer.

2/8/05

Some of you may be wondering, what happened to the webmaster and the regular updates.   Last fall I moved away from Benzie County to work on a Masters of Theological Studies in Music and Liturgy at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois.  Suffice it to say, there was a slight break in the updating of this website as we attempted to find and train a replacement.  Though updates do not consist of much time for myself, a replacement would have to get used to updating this with all the quirks that this website contains.  Well, through modern technology I am able to continue updating by receiving regular information from the parish.  We will continue this until a replacement is found.  I am sorry for the slow months and I hope to have this back to the normal updating that happened in the past. 

This months updates.  To avoid printing a long list of pages that have been updated, it is best to say most date specific information has been updated.  Some more notable information that I recently updated:

  • Rearanged the sermons for the new year (calandar not church year).  The most recent sermons (2005) are are here
  • Changed the Lenten Programs for 2005's programs

6/23/04

5/15/04

Well, it seems that I had gotten a bit behind.  For those of you aware of the the lost April issue of the Apostle, the electronic version that I use to update the website also would not work.  Between that and many other issues, we got behind a bit over here.  Well, I believe it is all up to date. 

2/28/04

Well, we seem to be all up to date.  The latest information from the March Apostle has been added to the various pages.  Also, the introduction music has been changed to Lenten hymns.  The Deacon's Corner has changed to The Deacon's Bench (I suppose Marilou got out of the corner and can now sit down.) 

Here are the changes besides the normal monthly updates

2/9/04

Sorry for the lack of updated information about what is new.  Though most information has been kept current, there has been a few lapses due to time constraints and some technical glitches. Hopefully, with this month updates, the site should be current.   There were regular updates between October and January but they have not been listed.  From this point onward, on this page I will only be listing new additions and major changes to exising pages. 

So here is a listing of some of the changes.

  • Added the Web Publishing Policy.
  • Added Privacy Policy.
  • Reorganized the sermon section to organize sermons by year (That would be calendar year not liturgical year)
  • Changed the vestry retreat picture to the new vestry retreat picture.

10/30/03

9/27/03

9/13/03

9/7/03

8/25/03

  • Added link to the new Diocese website - www.edwm.org
  • Added Episcopal news service banner

7/23/03

7/24/03

  • Updated home page
  • Removed links to Diocese of Western Michigan
  • Minor corrections to allow site to work with Opera

7/8/03

7/4/03

  • Corrected problem with viewing by Netscape Navigator (sorry to those using Netscape)

6/25/03

6/16/03

  • Changed look of site to Blue border

5/30/03

3/30/03

3/3/03

2/4/03

1/26/03

  • Divided sermons into 2002 and 2003.

Would you like to see something added to the site?  Email me at:

webmaster@stphilipsbenzie.org