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    "Your Website Needs Improvement"

    It’s been more than a year since a Brown Memorial Park Avenue member first made that comment. Like many in my generation he was accustomed to getting his information from the Internet. He was looking for a dynamic, social justice-minded congregation, whose people are not afraid to take risks, or enter the public arena to live out their faith. Unfortunately, our website seemed to convey that we were an old church, with beautiful windows, and content that hadn’t changed in several years.

    The good news was that this member visited a number of other churches with slick looking websites only to discover that their marketing was better than what he found when he got there!

    Our new website has a new domain name – browndowntown.org – but you already know that. We hope that the change of name will be a symbolic way of conveying to our membership, to our visitors, and to the general public that it is a new day at Brown Memorial Park Avenue. With a cadre of volunteers training themselves more and more each day on how to keep our site updated, we are striving to create a content-rich site that conveys some of the good news that we’re called to share in Baltimore and beyond.

    Anytime we begin something new, it’s wise to pause and give thanks for what led us here. Specifically I want to thank Matthew Fedderly who developed our original site while he was still in high school. He had the foresight to know that we needed a website before a lot of people even knew what a website was. If our old website was outdated it was only because we didn’t keep up with Matthew to begin with! Also, through the years, a number of members took turns at pushing their pastor onto the web with sermons and articles and calendar updates. These include Willem Errens, Bud Graves, Monica Rakowski, Lisa Eney, Brantley Davis, and Betsy Nix.


    Betsy Nix has managed our new website design. Viviana Cordova, a MICA student, got us started on the site and trained many of us in the basics of how to update it. Julie Goodwin helped refine our design. Mary Mashburn developed our new logo with help from Brantley Davis. Tom Waldron helped with our word choices. Shirley Parry helped with the programming. Monica Rakowski and Megan Lovett took a boatload of pictures. And Rachel Cunningham spent literally days with me going through code until we got the site to fit our expectations. We are indebted to all these virtual saints among us. What do you think of our new look?


    Andrew (the pastor)

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    Comment

    1. I think the new website looks great.

      — Herb Ward · Nov 29, 12:58 AM · #

    2. I am thankful for my church, it’s leadership and members. Happy Thanksgiving

      — Monica · Nov 21, 11:30 AM · #

    3. Excellent work! I love the design and the way the information is presented. I especially love the fonts and colors used. Anything is better than the old website, but this new design is really beautiful.

      — Amanda Slagle · Nov 20, 06:04 PM · #

    4. It looks great. I like the backstage feature which I’m sure is helpful to many.

      — Rachel Aaron · Nov 20, 05:35 PM · #

    5. I really like the new church website it really is super cool.

      — Nicholas Imparato · Nov 16, 06:05 PM · #

    6. I think that church is a fun and great place to go every sunday and i love the sermons.

      — Nicholas Imparato · Nov 16, 06:03 PM · #

    7. I love it! It really describes who we are. Well Done!

      — Julie · Oct 11, 08:20 PM · #

    8. WOW what a great surprise. I am super impressed with the new look and feel of the website.

      — Rev. Ed Richardson · Oct 1, 03:59 PM · #

    9. Things look better everyday. Thanks for the work.

      — Monica · Sep 20, 02:40 PM · #