Short really is sweet.

I just inked a deal with the fine folks at Stuck In The Middle, a ministry for Junior High and Middle School students, their parents and their youth workers. Sean Meade, Stuck’s founder, actually did a Mission Adventures outreach to Tijuana way back when he was a student. (You can read more about that here on my personal blog.)

If you’ve been surfing the webtubes at all lately, you’ve probably noticed these fancy little buttons cropping up like some sort of algae bloom in the Pacific. These cool little blobs of color are a couple more ways for your outreach to get noticed among a wider audience.

The New MissionAdventures.net has tons of built-in features that can help us build relationships with youth workers. As I’ve mentioned before, we’ve got comments on every Outreach and News entry. We’ve got RSS feeds and an eMail Newsletter. Today let’s explore the small but powerful Share Article feature of our site.

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!)