Our new site has lots of neat-o-cool features that are designed to help us build community with youth workers, pastors, parents and even kids who are interested in short-term missions. We’ve got those magical RSS Feeds, we’ve got an email list, we have comments, and we have all those nifty social sharing widget-thingies. But perhaps the most powerful way to build community is to draw folks in with some great content. And that’s where the MA News blog comes into play.

But do you know what “MA RSS Feeds” means? This is one of the many many cool little upgrades that we have with the new MissionAdventures.net. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication, and if you click on that link it takes you to a page that looks like this:

The Outreach posts are the heart of our new web site. In fact, I would venture to say that they’re the whole reason we would even want a web site. Youth Workers come to missionadventures.net to find an outreach for their group, so ummm… You could say these posts are our raison d’etre as they say in Russian. (Thanks Tim, that one is for you!)

In addition to your Spiffy Profile Page,™ your base has a truly magical way for youth workers to contact you via e-mail.

Today, I want to put the spotlight on the new YWAM Center Profile page that each base has on the site. When a visitor puts their cursor over the “YWAM Centers” link in the main navigation, they see a drop down menu like the one at the right.