I was browsing feeds and notice that all that sbcoutpost.com has now been redirected to www.sbcimpact.net
I didn’t hear the offical word that the site was going offline. Does anyone know the story?
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Tony Kummer is a graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the founder of several popular websites, these include: Ministry-To-Children and Devotional Christian.
He has a passion for free online education and continues to create new learning communities. His website to learn English online is helping people on a global scale. His website for learning Haitian Creole is a favorite source for mission teams. His latest project is Sunday School Works! an online directory of free resources for Sunday School ministry.
Tony,
I suppose I know “the story.” 🙂
SBC Outpost wrote their final post about a week ago. They indicated that they were finished with the effort. After talking things over with one of my fellow contributors, I was encouraged to approach them regarding the sbcoutpost.com domain. I inquired if they were going to shut down the site or renew the domain. I asked that, if they were planning to shut down the site, we (sbc IMPACT!) might take ownership of the domain. They generously agreed, and it so happened that the domain was up for renewal … so the domain has been transferred to the ownership of sbc IMPACT! and we have set it to redirect to our main site.
Everyone involved thought that this was a much better outcome for the domain, instead of having it fall into the “wrong hands” and being redirected to a porn site or something along those lines (which happens far too often with expired domains).
Hope that clears things up.
On another note … what was up with your feeds this morning? We had our last ten or twelve posts back-to-back in your latest feeds block. 🙂
Tony,
It has been a few weeks, so I don’t remember exactly, but basically the folks at SBC Outpost felt like the site had outlived its usefulness. With Ben Cole out of the game, I believe interest in the site had waned a bit. And I believe they didn’t want to have a site just for the sake of having one, didn’t want to conjur up things to talk about it that would not have any edificational value. Others may remember better.
This word from the sbcIMPACT! site:
Recently, the folks over at SBC Outpost announced that they were closing up shop. In a parting note, Paul Littleton was kind enough to guide their readership our way.
Since then, the Outpost team agreed to transfer and redirect their domain name to our site, not only to prevent the domain from being purchased by those with ill intents (a common practice nowadays), but also to point their readership to a site that may contain content of interest to their readers.
We know that many will miss SBC Outpost for a variety of reasons, and understand that our site will not serve as an adequate replacement for some. We do, however, hope that what you’ll find here will be a welcome alternative.
With that said, welcome to sbc IMPACT! If you’re here for the first time, please… take a look around and see what we have to offer.
If you have any comments, please feel free to contact us. We want to know how our site can be more of a blessing to you!
God bless!
The SBC Impact Team
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@Geoff Baggett: Thanks for the explaination. It was definitely a smart move, otherwise it would have been some spam real estate site within a week!
My RSS feeds counted all your posts as belonging to the SBC OUTPOST feed also, I’ve fixed it now. Thanks