Previously Seeking Funding to Turn GodPlex.co into a Premier Christian Social Media Connection Site
Former Kickstarter Proposal:
September 2014
Synopsis: With over 2 Billion Christians worldwide, I have a passion to see people of faith freely fellowship and instantly connect while fulfilling the "Great Commission." There is a demand for Christians to have a highly advanced, one-stop place to quickly connect: Our current system to try and gain support for a project, non-profit organization, support group, missionary, new book, local concert etc. is to go out and spend weeks or months traveling the church circuit. On-line support through web-sites, church sites, Christian organizations has helped but it can be an all-out daunting, time-consuming task weeding through thousands of secular web-pages, then doing research on something that supports your biblical world-view. By communicating instantaneously and openly, Christians will be able to showcase their stories, ministries, goals and progress on a global Christian social media site: GodPlex.co.
Proposal: Our Christian lives are busy and complex. We need to modernize our Christ-centered community to help us stay informed, connected and in-touch so that we can serve instantly and more effectively from a local to a global scale.
There is a demand for Christians to have a highly advanced, one-stop place to instantly connect: Our current system to try and gain support for a project, non-profit organization, support group, missionary, new book, local concert etc. is to go out and spend weeks or months traveling the church circuit. On-line support through web-sites, church sites, Christian organizations has helped but it can be an all-out daunting, time-consuming task weeding through thousands of secular web-pages, then doing research on something that supports your biblical world-view.
If funded, GodPlex.co will be built into something much greater than a search-engine or social media site. It will be designed to allow the Christian user to gain instant access to their world on a global scale.
Instant Ministry Connections:
1. A businessman's meeting is cancelled. He would love to serve at a soup kitchen for an hour during his lunch break but he only has one minute to locate a place nearby and go and make a difference.
2. A family overestimates how much food will be consumed at a party and would like to deliver the remainder to a nearby food bank but it's already late at night and they only have a minute to track down a place that will take the food before it's thrown out.
3. A couple travels twenty minutes to go to a church just outside their neighborhood. The church they attend has some great service minded projects that rally the whole congregation to serve the community twice a year. Even though there is a great turn-out for these programs, they are all located within a five-mile radius of the church. The couple would love to help someone in their area but it is too far for the whole congregation to consider as one of their projects. Every time the couple drives by a certain house (apartment, school or park) they can't help but notice its run-down condition. They would love to help mow the lawn, pull weeds or pick-up trash. They need a way to tactfully contact the neighbor (apartment, school or park), rally support from others and offer to help.
4. You have a free day and would like to follow Christ's command to “go and preach the good news” but need direction. You are looking for a quick guide that will help you say what you would like to say. You would also like to find out if the local laws will allow you to stand on the street corner of X and Y while you say it. You would also like to print out a few materials to hand out.
5. Your Sunday school teacher just called in sick and your substitute needs a quick guide with printables for the kids to take home. You want this to be more than just a baby-sitting assignment.
6. Your local missionary family is visiting. You are tasked with finding food and lodging, tonight.
Instant Christian Connections:
1. Bible study help and resources
2. Christian meeting, dating and marriage help
3. Christ-centered social media: Where your Christ-centered posts are valued, not deleted!
4. Moving help (boxes, packing, lifting)
5. New in town (church, school, business connections)
6. Travelling through (need to find places to worship, eat, visit and stay for the night)
7. Ride Alert (vehicle broke down, you are out of gas money or you are elderly. You need to get to church, work, school, grocery store or mall)
8. Hospital visit request: Your loved one is in the hospital and you want someone to come and offer encouragement, pray and visit for an hour.
9. Sunday school substitute
10. Prayer requests
11. You need encouragement: you just want to know someone cares about you and your struggle.
12. Church locations and reviews
13. Book and Movie reviews
14. Job and Volunteer opportunities
15. Emergency and Disaster relief
16. Victim Assistance (abuse, runaway, sex-trafficking hot-line)
17. Political help (bills, agendas, opinions)
18. Sell your stuff or give it away for free
Advanced Connections and Resources:
1. Safer Internet: You have been cautious about allowing your children to join the on-line community because you've heard that every internet user everyone is just two clicks away from sites that would compromise Christian values and morals. You know the internet is a dangerous place so your best option (up to this point) has been to ban internet activity altogether. You have wondered for years how you can restrict certain sites and allow your children to surf the internet responsibly and safely. The internet seems too dangerous and you're not sure if you can trust certain sites that make claims about safe-surfing.
2. Notifications: You would like to notify people in your zip code and nearby area about certain things; home-grown produce to give away, neighborhood clean-up day, alerting their local politician, church or school yard sale and bake sale, etc.
3. Church Resources: Your church group is traveling to a foreign country to serve a local mission. You are in charge of researching the local customs, laws, lodging, travel options to the country and inside the country.
4. Research: Christ, apostles, bible verses, Christians apologists, Christian literature, Christian authors, Christian charities
5. Donations: to charities, hospitals, schools, organizations that share your Christian values
6. Educational materials for teachers: Private school, home educators, Sunday school workers, etc.
Other: Non-profit Christian and Missionary Promotion and Help Page: blogs, start-ups, updates, picture sharing, needs and supply list, help needed, etc.
Our Challenge: Will be to gain the trust of the Christian community, protect the vulnerable (young, elderly, etc.) and protect the privacy of the user. GodPlex.co aims to harness the power of social media while offering a safe internet experience by hiring a brilliant group of dedicated individuals to assess, manage and eliminate known threats. Our goal is to allow the staff and users to monitor for any immoral, illegal, non-Christian/offensive content, stopping it immediately; while allowing Christian views to be shared freely.
September 2014
Synopsis: With over 2 Billion Christians worldwide, I have a passion to see people of faith freely fellowship and instantly connect while fulfilling the "Great Commission." There is a demand for Christians to have a highly advanced, one-stop place to quickly connect: Our current system to try and gain support for a project, non-profit organization, support group, missionary, new book, local concert etc. is to go out and spend weeks or months traveling the church circuit. On-line support through web-sites, church sites, Christian organizations has helped but it can be an all-out daunting, time-consuming task weeding through thousands of secular web-pages, then doing research on something that supports your biblical world-view. By communicating instantaneously and openly, Christians will be able to showcase their stories, ministries, goals and progress on a global Christian social media site: GodPlex.co.
Proposal: Our Christian lives are busy and complex. We need to modernize our Christ-centered community to help us stay informed, connected and in-touch so that we can serve instantly and more effectively from a local to a global scale.
There is a demand for Christians to have a highly advanced, one-stop place to instantly connect: Our current system to try and gain support for a project, non-profit organization, support group, missionary, new book, local concert etc. is to go out and spend weeks or months traveling the church circuit. On-line support through web-sites, church sites, Christian organizations has helped but it can be an all-out daunting, time-consuming task weeding through thousands of secular web-pages, then doing research on something that supports your biblical world-view.
If funded, GodPlex.co will be built into something much greater than a search-engine or social media site. It will be designed to allow the Christian user to gain instant access to their world on a global scale.
Instant Ministry Connections:
1. A businessman's meeting is cancelled. He would love to serve at a soup kitchen for an hour during his lunch break but he only has one minute to locate a place nearby and go and make a difference.
2. A family overestimates how much food will be consumed at a party and would like to deliver the remainder to a nearby food bank but it's already late at night and they only have a minute to track down a place that will take the food before it's thrown out.
3. A couple travels twenty minutes to go to a church just outside their neighborhood. The church they attend has some great service minded projects that rally the whole congregation to serve the community twice a year. Even though there is a great turn-out for these programs, they are all located within a five-mile radius of the church. The couple would love to help someone in their area but it is too far for the whole congregation to consider as one of their projects. Every time the couple drives by a certain house (apartment, school or park) they can't help but notice its run-down condition. They would love to help mow the lawn, pull weeds or pick-up trash. They need a way to tactfully contact the neighbor (apartment, school or park), rally support from others and offer to help.
4. You have a free day and would like to follow Christ's command to “go and preach the good news” but need direction. You are looking for a quick guide that will help you say what you would like to say. You would also like to find out if the local laws will allow you to stand on the street corner of X and Y while you say it. You would also like to print out a few materials to hand out.
5. Your Sunday school teacher just called in sick and your substitute needs a quick guide with printables for the kids to take home. You want this to be more than just a baby-sitting assignment.
6. Your local missionary family is visiting. You are tasked with finding food and lodging, tonight.
Instant Christian Connections:
1. Bible study help and resources
2. Christian meeting, dating and marriage help
3. Christ-centered social media: Where your Christ-centered posts are valued, not deleted!
4. Moving help (boxes, packing, lifting)
5. New in town (church, school, business connections)
6. Travelling through (need to find places to worship, eat, visit and stay for the night)
7. Ride Alert (vehicle broke down, you are out of gas money or you are elderly. You need to get to church, work, school, grocery store or mall)
8. Hospital visit request: Your loved one is in the hospital and you want someone to come and offer encouragement, pray and visit for an hour.
9. Sunday school substitute
10. Prayer requests
11. You need encouragement: you just want to know someone cares about you and your struggle.
12. Church locations and reviews
13. Book and Movie reviews
14. Job and Volunteer opportunities
15. Emergency and Disaster relief
16. Victim Assistance (abuse, runaway, sex-trafficking hot-line)
17. Political help (bills, agendas, opinions)
18. Sell your stuff or give it away for free
Advanced Connections and Resources:
1. Safer Internet: You have been cautious about allowing your children to join the on-line community because you've heard that every internet user everyone is just two clicks away from sites that would compromise Christian values and morals. You know the internet is a dangerous place so your best option (up to this point) has been to ban internet activity altogether. You have wondered for years how you can restrict certain sites and allow your children to surf the internet responsibly and safely. The internet seems too dangerous and you're not sure if you can trust certain sites that make claims about safe-surfing.
2. Notifications: You would like to notify people in your zip code and nearby area about certain things; home-grown produce to give away, neighborhood clean-up day, alerting their local politician, church or school yard sale and bake sale, etc.
3. Church Resources: Your church group is traveling to a foreign country to serve a local mission. You are in charge of researching the local customs, laws, lodging, travel options to the country and inside the country.
4. Research: Christ, apostles, bible verses, Christians apologists, Christian literature, Christian authors, Christian charities
5. Donations: to charities, hospitals, schools, organizations that share your Christian values
6. Educational materials for teachers: Private school, home educators, Sunday school workers, etc.
Other: Non-profit Christian and Missionary Promotion and Help Page: blogs, start-ups, updates, picture sharing, needs and supply list, help needed, etc.
Our Challenge: Will be to gain the trust of the Christian community, protect the vulnerable (young, elderly, etc.) and protect the privacy of the user. GodPlex.co aims to harness the power of social media while offering a safe internet experience by hiring a brilliant group of dedicated individuals to assess, manage and eliminate known threats. Our goal is to allow the staff and users to monitor for any immoral, illegal, non-Christian/offensive content, stopping it immediately; while allowing Christian views to be shared freely.