If you follow this blog regularly, you’ll note two little changes we made over the weekend:

1. We moved. The Gathering blog is now at the far easier to remember www.thegatheringblog.com. You’ll get redirected from the old page but you might as well bookmark the new page now. Plus, it’s a lot easier to tell your friends if we’re actually using a URL that makes sense!

2. The comments section now runs on a platform called Disqus. Depending on how you comment, it might not be a big change. But disqus allows for some interesting possibilities (like video comments) and a lot more identity for people leaving comments. Play around with it a bit; I think you’ll like what you find.

I also spent some time rethinking why we have this blog. Here’s the idea in a few sentences, conveniently borowed from the header of this blog:

The Gathering is McLean Bible Church’s ministry with the collegiate generation. We’re one ministry living on multiple university campuses in the Washington, DC area. This blog is a way for us all to stay connected and inspired as we impact the collegiate generation with the message of Jesus Christ.

I hope Disqus and a few other features we’re rolling out in the months to come will turn this blog into an online community for all of us involved in The Gathering. I really don’t want this to just be about my voice – I hope you’ll lend your voice to the conversations here and allow this to be one small way that our diverse community stays connected.