So what’s the FaithVillage blog all about?
A quick scan of the blog categories says a lot: inspiration, culture, faith online, and leadership. That may sound like enough ground to cover but this little blog is just laying the foundation for an exciting new social network for faith experiences. 
The FaithVillage blog is the forerunner to a full-blown website that we audaciously hope will become a vibrant online community that expands personal faith, shares quality ministry resources and deepens collaboration around the causes that matter to Christ-followers.
So, in the future FV you’ll find a robust social media platform, like Facebook, but also surrounded by Christian videos, blogs, podcasts, news, ministry resources, volunteer training tools, book and music downloads, as well as articles from leading publishers.
We said we were just getting started.
Set that rich variety of content in a robust social media community with an awesome visual interface and convenient online shopping and you have a virtual village where you can endlessly explore, connect and belong.
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FV is for people who want to be:
- Connected in online relationships with like-minded Christian friends, ministry leaders and volunteers who share your passions, while simultaneously relating in broader circles such as on Facebook and Twitter
- Collaborators who leverage the power of social media to bring their offline ministry teams and small groups to work safely and securely online
- Inspired by online content that expands their faith and stretches their imagination for doing good
- Knowledgeable about the next generation of church life, leadership strategies and church-based organizations
- Current on news, events, technology and cultural ideas from a faith perspective
- Fully-developed, growing in knowledge, in spiritual practices, in ministry skills, in relationships, in purposeful living
- Engaged with missional people and causes who are actively working to live out the gospel with maximum impact
We all know, Googling “God” is simply not good enough
FV seeks to get you to the good stuff, easier, faster, with a little more fun and a lot more technological flair. We’re all about promoting good work, connecting good people, and sharing good ideas that strengthen your life and ministry. So you’re invited to follow the FV blog on this amazing journey of building an online village. If you like what you see, join up with TEAM FV as a FaithVillage fan and we’ll put you on the inside track, share some tools that can help you spread the word, and crowdsource you for ideas about what you think FV should become. We’ll even let you move into FV to test the experience before it goes live to the general public.
About the Editor & FV Team
Brad Russell is the Senior Editor/COO of FaithVillage and lives in Dallas, Texas. He is a husband, father of three, and a lapsed triathlete who is currently back on his bike.
He brings to FV a passion for resourcing people of faith and bringing value to Christian leaders. The FV project seems to be God’s unique way of creating a synergy out of his career experiences in media and communications, ministry as a senior pastor and church planter, and a consultant to faith-based non-profits. In true new media style, the development team for FV includes a talented group of top-tier researchers, designers, web developers and online journalists in four different cities.
While FV seeks to serve a diverse community of online Christ-followers wherever we find them, it is a next-generation media service of Baptist Standard Publishing, a 120-year veteran Christian news organization, proving that, yes, old dogs can learn new tricks, and new ventures are most successful when they have some strong legs to run on. ;-)
