Discover Jesus: Status 2024 Jan

Discover Jesus – Update

By Mike Robinson

DISCOVERJESUS.COM IS LIVE!

It is official! After launching our first version of the Discover Jesus website to the general public on November 15, our new website URL is the easy-to-remember DiscoverJesus.com and can be viewed on any device.

We are excited to own the most commonly used domain name (the .com extension) for ease of finding and navigating to the site. Bumper stickers and billboards may not be too far off in our future!

A MOBILE-FRIENDLY VERSION IS ALSO LIVE!

The Discover Jesus website has now also been optimized for viewing on mobile phones and tablets. We look forward to fine-tuning a few features that will make the experience of reading and exploring content on phones even better. In the interim, we are happy to have the site unlocked for visitors on mobile devices as we know the ubiquity of using our phones and tablets for everything that is on the internet.

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS

By the time you read this article, we should have 175 published essays with profile images that are live on the website. When we factor in the number of essays that are written and pending editing and image creation, we are well over 200 and more than one-third of the way to our goal of 600 total articles when we are finished with Part IV of the book.

We continue to receive and add content from our dedicated and prolific volunteer writers who create an original exposition of a Person, Group, Relationship, Event, Location, Object, or Topic from Part IV of The Urantia Book.

MEDIA CURATION

Gary Tonge continues to paint for the app and is using the Midjourney AI program to produce an initial draft and then he completes the work himself. His talent is indispensable to the Discover Jesus platform and his skill at creating new art is what fuels the beauty of our site.

We sincerely appreciate Gary's exceptional ability to incorporate these images into the story and his willingness to go above and beyond in order to bring the text to life for each and every one of our website visitors.

WE NEED YOUR HELP

This project continues to be an enormous undertaking, and a group of enthusiastic Urantia Book students is devoted to its completion. Software development continues with input on user experience and interface. We continue to work on marketing and fundraising to increase traffic to the site. And we have so many writers and others who are contributing through their incredible investment of time.

Please consider helping us with a donation. A generous donor has challenged all of us with a matching fund of $100,000 for new donations until the dollar goal is reached. We are so close!

Thank you for being part of this journey and for your continued support in the year ahead!