Welcome to the adventure of doing ministry through technology!

This manual is written for those who are interested in using Web-Empowered Church (WEC) technology and the Sermons Management System extension (SMS) for their own church or ministry website. This manual will introduce you to the basics of how to install and operate the SMS extension, as well as provide advanced users in-depth instructions about how to alter and tailor the extension to fit almost any need.

The Web-Empowered Church (WEC) is a software ministry of the Foundation for Evangelism (www.evangelize.org). The mission of WEC is to innovatively apply WEB technology to EMPOWER the worldwide CHURCH for ministry.

WEC helps churches around the world expand evangelism, discipleship, and care through the innovative application of internet technology. WEC web-based tools and training will help make church ministries more efficient and effective, and will extend ministry impact to a world in need of Jesus (www.webempoweredchurch.org/Jesus). We want to fuel a worldwide movement using the internet to point the world to Jesus Christ, to grow disciples, and to care for those in need. Our desire is to use the web to empower the Church to become a truly twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week ministry that is not constrained by walls or distance or time.

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The SMS extension is designed to provide an online repository of your weekly sermons and a wide variety of related materials. The SMS makes these available to your congregation, as well as to the general public, thus allowing your sermons to be an effective teaching and evangelism tool for those surfing the web. The extension is powerful enough to handle the needs of the largest church, but simple enough for even the most basic website.