Mission & New Site

Below is the description of the mission of this site and the welcoming message describing the site.

Welcome!

This site is designed to be a source of education, information and encouragement as well as to enhance communication between singles of all ages. In order for the Bulletin Board section to be effective, we rely on you to send us announcements about upcoming activities in your church area. (Click the “Contact Us” button on the menu to the left.)

New Site

Welcome to this new Web site for singles, sponsored by the United Church of God. I was happy to be asked to help with this site, which is dedicated to items of interest to singles in the Church around the world. Several have expressed the desire to see a site that would encourage communication and education of singles without a focus on “matchmaking” or being a “dating service”. As the use of the site has increased and more input has been given, we have added several features that will make it easier for those who wish to find out more about their fellow singles. Of course, all of the additional items (Bios, photos, interests, and ages) are entirely voluntary. We are also extremely concerned about individual security and identity theft, so we caution everyone not to enter personally identifiable information that would make it easy for someone to cause you trouble.

We hope this site will fill that need and would appreciate submissions from singles--of information about activities in your area or region, of book reviews you feel would be of interest to other singles, your suggestions for improving the site, or any other comments or suggestions you wish to make. Submissions can be made by clicking the “Contact Us” menu button to the left.

We also realize single people often want to communicate with other singles. In order to respect your privacy, we do not list email addresses. However, we will allow you to register on this site and enter an email address if you do not mind being contacted by other visitors to this site. On the E-List page you will find a listing of people who have registered with us. The list can be sorted in name, country or state order. If you want to send a message to someone on the list, click the mail icon in front of their name. If they have given us an email address, an email window will open and you can send them a message. Note that their email address will not display, but your message will be sent. Whether or not they reply after receiving your message will be up to them.

Special thanks go to Ina McLemore for providing the "drive" to get this site started, to Paul Wasilkoff in the home office for his help in creating the page template, and to Kevin Treybig for his programming work, with some assistance from Dan Deininger's company.

We hope you enjoy and benefit from this site.

--Ken Treybig, Webmaster