Internet Evangelism Day is coming on April 27th. According to the IED website:

We wish to communicate the outreach potential of the Web to the worldwide church. The site has a twin-track purpose:

• to explain the strategies needed to use the web for evangelism, along with showcase examples, and demonstrate the many ways you could be involved. One surprising fact: you do not need to be technically gifted to do web evangelism!
• to enable you to communicate these truths to others, by providing free downloads: PowerPoint, video clips, drama scripts, handouts, etc. These enable churches and other groups to build a web evangelism focus program into a service or other activities.

One of the most interesting tools the site provides is a checklist for your church website. This checklist includes 55 items that you can use to “score” your church website and then, based upon your checklist entries can generate a report to help you understand what needs to be fixed on your site. For the most part, I like the checklist and feel it provides some really good ideas for what makes a good church site. I will be using it as a way to help evaluate the redesign of my own church’s website.