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Some of you know what Twitter is. Some of you don’t.

Twitter is a social networking site that let’s users send a brief message in real-time to let friends (called “followers”) know what is happening right now. Each brief update is called a “tweet”.

Want to follow World Bible School and keep informed about what’s new? Sign up for a free Twitter account and get the WBS news in real time. It’s real fun!

http://twitter.com/FollowMyWBS

Every day the staff of the Internet department of WBS gets to experience something that is exciting, inspirational, or humbling. Yesterday, we had all three.

Our programmer recently activated the ability for a myWBS user to upload an “avatar”.  An avatar is a little picture that serves as an icon to represent the user.  Traditionally most users post a picture of themselves.  Some use a picture that represents their interests or personality in some way.

During our staff meeting yesterday, we looked to see if any of the WBS web students had uploaded an avatar to their profile.  What we saw excited, inspired and humbled us.  Over 100 students had uploaded images that instantly put faces and personalities with their names and ID numbers.

Yesterday, the web students came to life.  With over 1,000 web students enrolled in the first two months, we were reminded that these are real people seeking God.

Here is what we saw. God is good.

WBS web students – real people.

On February 23rd, Desiree, a 49 year old cake decorator from the state of Iowa (US) enrolled in the WBS web courses.

On Saturday, April 4th, at 6:31 PM she requested baptism.  Desiree wrote:

Desiree has completed the Intro, God Has Spoken, This is Good News, and Knowing Jesus courses.  She has had no interaction with a study helper since she enrolled. The Word of God presented through the WBS courses convicted and compelled her.

1 – General Stats via the Web

http://internet.wbschool.net/Stats.php (may take a few seconds to load the page)

2 – WBS Top 20 Countries Enrolling for Postal via the Web

http://internet.wbschool.net/CountriesPostal.php

3 – WBS Top 20 Countries Enrolling for Email Courses

http://internet.wbschool.net/Countries.php

4 – WBS Top 20 Countries Enrolling for Web Courses

http://internet.wbschool.net/Countries09Web.php

This Spring, WBS released 7 blogs for students.

Each blog is centered around the topics and spiritual concepts presented in one of the Master Series courses.

The purpose of the blogs is to:
- help the students understand and apply what they are learning in the courses
- keep them involved with Bible studies longer
- support the good work WBS teachers are doing as other Christians encourage the students
- experience love and faith within a Christian community.

Ultimately, our goal is to communicate the Gospel and transform lives.

A blog environment is similar to a Bible class at church. When a student clicks a link,  he finds a discussion on a Bible topic with a small group of people.  The exciting thing about this group is that it is made up of people from around the world.  The student realizes, “Hey, I’m not alone!” and he finds other Christians, besides his study helper, who are helping him come to know Christ.

Links to WBS Course Blogs

Yes! We invite you to try the web courses as if you were a WBS web student.

Please visit myWBS 2.0 and login using this Username and Password information.

http://my.worldbibleschool.org

Demo Password:        Psalm119