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Mountain View Bible Fellowship

Revealing Jesus’ Heart Via Prayer, Caring, Connecting, & Reaching Out

We are part of the Rocky Mountain Baptist Conference of the Baptist General Conference, headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois.  We were founded in 1954 and started out closer to town at 340 South Saint Vrain Avenue.  We moved to our present location in 1982.

Our Staff & Leadership:

Elder Chair Joe Minker

Elder Gib Dolezal

Elder Merwyn Joens

Church Council Chair Jim Allen

Associate Pastor Paul Romig

Youth Pastor Jake Hess

Treasurer Sue Shull

Church Clerk Pam Carpman

Financial Secretary Milldred Allen

Office Manager Reid Ritschard

Worship Coordinator Scott Joens

AWANA Commander Tanya Rowley


About our website:  we searched and searched for MONTHS for a quality, reasonably-priced provider that offered everything we wanted to do with our site.  We had several criteria:

  • The ability for editing by multiple people is a must - this because no one else would be better able to provide and edit content than those who are directly involved in a particular ministry.  Plus, with a small staff and most of us part-time at that, we simply don't have someone who can dedicate most of their time to site maintenance.
  • Because of the necessity of multiple editors, we needed them to be able to edit their content whether they are in their office, at home in front of the fire, or relaxing on a mountainside or beach sipping a latte or lemonade.  So web-based editing is essential.
  • We needed a provider that is specifically for churches.  Churches have certain qualities that necessitate a church-niche provider.
  • We needed to have the capability of limitless pages as part of the standard package, rather than being stuck with a certain number, or charged extra for additional pages.
  • Whatever the solution, it needed to be easily and quickly mastered.  Remember those multiple editors? Well, all of us have differing levels of computer experience and comfort and we had to cater to the least experienced amongst us.
  • We needed the ability to have no set number of email addresses at our disposal.  We didn't want to be tied down to 5, or pay more for additional ones.  We wanted to be able to easily and quickly add or delete addresses.  Most web hosting services charge extra.
  • We wanted a way to easily and quickly provide access to public documents, as well as audio and video files.
  • We wanted to be able to grow into the possibility of real-time Sunday Worship viewing - podcasting.  We're not there yet, but it's included as a standard feature when we do get to that point.
  • We needed skilled and fast-response tech support, in case we ever needed it.  Our provider is 7 hours ahead of us in the UK, but they are professional and speedy.  We feel the latter two points are more important than their location.

There are other important considerations we could mention, but we'll move on.  Hands down, we feel, the absolute best solution for a church is our current provider, Church123.  No matter what size the church, they provide the same service to all.  Visit Church123 on the web and we're sure you will be impressed, and should you choose to utilize their hosting services we know you will be extremely happy.  Based in the UK, the number of churches over here in the US that they serve may be small in comparison to more widely-known companies; however, we feel they beat the competition many times over.  If you're in the market, you will want to check out Church123!

We have also integrated our Church Management System (CMS), ConnectionPower, with our Church123 website.  ConnectionPower is an amazing web-based CMS solution that is too comprehensive to fully describe here, so we invite you to visit ConnectionPower's web site for all the details; they even have some online demonstrations.  ConnectionPower's CMS allows for an online directory that's accessible via invitation-only, password-protected, member log-in.  We want our church family to have access to their fellow members and to be able to edit their own information - all without compromising security.  Our calendar is also managed via our CMS and when you visit our calendar here, you will see the functionality of ConnectionPower's PowerWeb module.  Our online giving is also managed by the CMS.  We have found no better CMS solution than ConnectionPower.  We highly recommend them to you if you're a church looking for the best CMS solution.

Office Address:

1575 South Saint Vrain Avenue  

Estes Park  

Colorado  

80517-7321  

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