That\’s it!

The day after the February newsletter was sent, my inbox was filled with responses – all of them upbeat and encouraging. I opened Bill Martin’s message, “This sounds exciting! Even to an ‘old dog’ like me. I’m ready…” Mary McKinney put it this way, “I’ll do whatever it takes to win souls. I will do like Paul and be all things to all people that I may win some!!” Pat Stamps responded with, “This sounds so good. Just let me know what I need to do. I am excited and ready to go.”

What do you need to do?

Before I answer the question from one “old dog” to another, I would like to reassert the point that the new myWBS will be a seamless application for all WBS users. Postal, email and web – teachers, students, follow up workers and churches. So, if you are reading this message, myWBS 2.0 is for you and your students.

For Postal Teachers who are myWBS 1.0 users. Your students’ records will be migrated into the new system for you. We are currently building your Postal Teacher & student pages. When the pages are completed, we will notify you that your students are being moved into the new system. At that time we will also give you instructions for how to login to the new system as a teacher.

For Email Teachers. The email teacher & students will be released following the Postal system in myWBS 2.0. Your system is a more complex with all of the auto-generated emails associated with your processes. You too will be notified when your system is ready and your students will be moved into the new system for you. We’ll give you step-by-step instructions so the migration will be easy.

For Follow-Up Workers and affiliated churches. The two systems – the one for follow up workers, and the one for WBS affiliated churches is scheduled for release in 2010.

So, what do you need to do right now?
1 – Watch for the notification with instructions about your system and your students.
2 – Keep giving us feedback and asking questions. Your opinions not only influence our path, they also encourage us! Lance and I have set up a couple of blogs to make it even easier for you to communicate with us.
3 – Read Lance’s technology blog and post your technical questions to him.
For now, that’s it!

~ Kit

WBS will link to churches who choose to participate in the Affiliate Program.

The WBS Internet department has always tried to assign students to teachers based on their preferred target areas when possible.  Some teachers chose to target the local community and some teachers target areas across the sea.

WBS will be offering the church Affiliate Program later in the year to churches who want to advertise WBS in a specific area of the world – local or remote.  The Affiliate Program will offer a variety of advertising and promotional helps to assist evangelistic churches to reach out.

The Affiliate Program will be released in the 3rd quarter of 2009.

The Affiliate Program is a web portal application which will provide churches advertising tools for student recruiting in a targeted area of the world.