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Post by Adrienne on Apr 14, 2016 22:27:12 GMT -5
Hello dear friends,
Yesterday I was on the My K-love app looking for anyone who had shared about marriage trouble to offer prayer and the information for this forum.
I know we're not supposed to share any outside links on the app (because I've had posts and comments deleted when I've done this and received emails from the admin folks telling me to please not do that), so I usually comment and encourage people to message me if they're interested so I can then email them the link.
This morning someone named Diana messaged me, but for some reason the system didn't give me her email address correctly... it was just her last name and then a long series of numbers...
I wanted to find her somehow since she had reached out to me saying her marriage was in trouble and she would appreciate the support... so I posted on the share wall with just her first name ("Looking for Diana") and then in the share explained the issue and said she could message me again with her email address. A little while later I got an email from the K-love admin saying I wasn't allowed to request personal information and they deleted the share.
I'm a little frustrated but I just want to step back and pray. I feel like it's out of my hands now; I don't want to push it anymore with what I'm allowed to post on K-love. At this point I've gotten several "Thank you but please don't..." emails from them and I don't want to come off as disrespectful.
So... allllll this to ask can we please pray for Diana? And if anyone has any advice or ideas of how to reach out to her, please share! :-)
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Post by Sharon on Apr 14, 2016 22:33:53 GMT -5
Can you forward me the email you got? SharonJonesCostumes@gmail.com - as technology stupid I am, I'm a master stalker (hey, can God use that for His glory too?!!?! Lol) and I can probably find her correct email. I am definitely going to be praying for her. Thank you for sharing this Adrienne.
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Post by william on Apr 14, 2016 22:39:52 GMT -5
I will be praying and too will keep look out for her posting.
I have gotten several emails too, I understand their reasonings however I don't completely agree with them.
I wonder if Eric knows how hard would be to make an app like this site; like what it takes, cost & so on...it just breaks my heart that so many are hurting and searching and they don't know where here.
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Post by Sharon on Apr 14, 2016 22:46:35 GMT -5
William, that is an awesome idea. To pay for a domain and actually start a real kind of "organization" thing that people can find easily?
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Post by Adrienne on Apr 14, 2016 22:52:07 GMT -5
Thanks friends for the prayers! I knew I could count on you guys :-) Sharon, I just sent you the message! I hope you can find her... Maybe it will be easier for you too since you have Facebook? (I don't). And William I agree... It really gets me...
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Post by Sharon on Apr 14, 2016 23:31:26 GMT -5
I hope you got my email! I found her and sent her a link to the community. Hopefully she will make it here soon, but I gave her your email address too in case there's an issue with the link.
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Post by Adrienne on Apr 15, 2016 6:05:00 GMT -5
Sharon, awesome!!! Thanks a lot! :-) :-) :-)
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Post by Adrienne on Apr 15, 2016 6:06:26 GMT -5
I really really appreciate that we are a team here and are all looking out for one another and others in similar situations! Praise God!!! :-)
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Post by Mary H on Apr 15, 2016 8:35:34 GMT -5
Praying for Diana!
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Post by Eric W. on Apr 15, 2016 12:00:17 GMT -5
Yeah, I chose this forum option because it could start out free and we could change it down the line if we wanted to. As for domain name/website that wouldn't be terribly hard. We just have to find an available name and register the domain. Usually they are 10-15$ annually to register. Just a quick check on my lunch break and StandingForMarriage.net and .com are already taken.
As for an app, that could get a little more envolved. I actually prefer the forum personally. To me, it's more organized, and easier (more logical) to find previous posts.
As for the email on Klove, I am actually surprised that they gave email address when messaging in the app in the past. Sites like Craigslist, uses a proxy email that people can reply to and it will redirect to the correct email address, but not give out you actual email address to everyone on the Web. Just a security precaution.
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Post by william on Apr 15, 2016 13:32:35 GMT -5
Eric,
What about StandingForMarriageRestoration ?
I agree with you, just trying to think of the ways we could make it easier for brothers and sisters to find us. I have spent several nights with this subject laying heavily on me.
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Post by Eric W. on Apr 17, 2016 14:33:08 GMT -5
Easiest option to setup and get going would be a package get domain website name, and Web hosting package. Looking at it, looks to be about $120-140 for 2 years for both the name and hosting it.
As for names, usually shorter is better because it's less for people to have to remember to find us, and less chance for typo's. Extra spellings of the Web site name run about $10-15 per year, per name. Doing a Google search for "Standing for marriage" in Google. I find all sorts of results. Quite a few of the top results were Rejoice Marriage Ministries. I wonder if it would be worth contacting some of the already existing sites about a forum option...
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Post by Sharon on Apr 17, 2016 14:58:08 GMT -5
I'm blessed so deeply that you guys want to get something like this started. I've been praying for a long time and felt God calling us to share our group with more people, but unsure of how to do it. I will tell you, my stand has become 1000 times easier since I found this group. For the first 5 years or so, I really believed I was completely alone in it. I couldn't find resources that helped. I haven't even been in the group for a year yet, but this last year has been the easiest of my stand by far, despite the continued cheating and lying, thanks to you brothers and sisters. I know God brought me to this group and I hope we can share this with many other standers.
I think going to rejoice marriage ministries may be a great way to start. We can tell them about our forum and ask them if they would like to link to us so that people have an opportunity to find us. I also happen to live in the same city as Focus on the Family and could speak to them also about linking to our forum, maybe in their emails. Do you guys have ideas about that?
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