If you have any questions about how to use the forum, post a new message and one of these friendly folks will answer you as soon as possible. To post a new message you have two choices: click on any of the sections under Board Folders in the left column and click on the "New" button or just click here and the "New message from ..." page will open. Select a Folder from the pull down box (The Fellowship Hall, for example), type in a Subject and either leave the default "ALL" in the To box or select anyone with "Sysop" or "SL" (for Section Leader) in their name from the pull down list. Then type your message in the large open area and when you're finished click on the Post button at the bottom.
Sysops
Tom
Sims is the Chief Sysop and Forum Manager.
Tom is pastor of Baptist Temple Church, "The
Fellowship of Joy," in Fresno, California. Through the years he has been
involved in community affairs, non-profit management, and education as a teacher
and advisor. He is a singer, writer, and story teller, a husband, a father
of two teenage sons, and an avid computer user. He is interested in people
and was once or twice a door-to-door salesman having once sold a Kirby in a
house with no carpet. He is also interested in ideas and how people express
them. Tom received his Associate and Bachelor's degrees from Bluefield College,
attended Virginia Tech, and receive a master of Divinity from Golden Gate Baptist
Theological Seminary. He can be reached at 209-229-9379.
Richard
Waterfield is responsible for General Assistance with the
message boards.
Richard is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, where he majored
in Biology and minored in History. while there he was active with IVCF and
the campus Newman Center. He served in The Gambia, West Africa as a Peace
Corps Volunteer working with a fisheries project, where he came into close
contact with Islam. Returning home, he studied Biochemistry in graduate school
and worked in Cell Biology and Biochemistry for five years. He eventually
landed in the computer field where he now works as a hacker for a startup
network monitoring company and loves it. He is married and the father of
a daughter in college and a son in middle school. He has been a Christian
since he can remember and, despite some years of unsettledness, he is happily
a Catholic following in the path of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. His interests
include reading in all subjects, bicycling, and sailing on his O'Day Daysailer.
Deb
Teleha is responsible for General Assistance with the message
boards.
Deb lives in Ohio with her husband and 2 of her 5 children. A DTR on hold,
she educates the kids at home and likes to sell Avon, camp, and take brisk
walks with her husband. Some favorite forum topics include creation science,
apologetics and being a light. Deb takes seriously Jesus' command to love
and share his gospel with the world, and finds the forum a fun way to do
both. Plus, she just loves making friends from all faiths and non-faiths,
sharing and learning from them. She's a member of High Pointe A/G and serves
with her husband in music, children's missions education, and prayer.
Jack
Douglass
Jack Douglass retired after 29 years with the Fresno County Juvenile Probation
Department several years ago where he supervised Juvenile Hall counselors
and ran programs within that facility. He moved into a neighborhood with
at-risk youth and immersed himself in full-time ministry through Youth for
Christ and Baptist Temple, the Fellowship of Joy. At the present time, Jack
is Director of Community and Equipping Ministries for Baptist Temple and
develops ministers to work with adults and youth in the inner city. He recently
married DeAnn Dominie and is the father of two children and grandfather of
more. He still teaches juvenile hall counselors through the community college
and is a respected leader of the community in Fresno, California.
Georgia
Griffith (1931-2005) was the Founder of the Christian Fellowship
Forum.
Georgia was a graduate of Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, where she majored
in music education and minored in English and religion. She enjoyed learning
new languages including computer programming languages; over the years she
learned 12 foreign languages. Georgia died Wednesday, September 14, 2005,
after a short illness.
Webmaster
Dorr
Altizer
Dorr is a Viet Nam Veteran who retired from a 25 year career in the U.S. Air Force in 1990. The owner of Tad Lane Creations, he provided Webmaster services for the GG Technical Services managed forums on CompuServe from August, 1998 to September, 2005 and he continues in that role under the current management. As a long time Model Railroader and Railfan, he's a member of many railway oriented organizations and spends most of his free time at TrainNet.org. Dorr and his wife Jan (and three cats) live in the City of Surprise, a Phoenix, Arizona, suburb. Their home is just west of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad siding named Lizard Acres, so if you ask him where he lives, he grins and says, "Lizard Acres, Arizona."
Section
Leaders
Greeter - Cheryl
All Sections - - Deb Teleha
The Fellowship Hall - Tom Sims
Christian Morals - Martin Yirrell
Family Life - Martin Yirrell, Mark Paul
Prayer -
Bible Study & Discipleship -
Worship & the Arts - Richard Waterfield,
Mark Paul