Metropolitan United Church

After three months of hard work by a small, but committed group of volunteers, Metropolitan launched a newly redesigned website on March 27, 2007.

The site has a fresh new look, a user-friendly navigation and some leading-edge features, including the capacity for congregational blogs, the inclusion of automatic news feeds from other church websites and a built-in production system that will allow more people to upload their own content to the site.

It can be a significant undertaking to develop a website for an organization with the stature of Metropolitan, even when you're not starting from scratch. With limited volunteer and financial resources, we had to be sure we got it right, so we hired a web development company to get us started. We found exactly the right one: Toronto-based Web Networks, a company whose mission is to provide website services to socially-committed organizations. Their approach is to build low-cost sites that are easy to maintain by volunteers, while including all the cutting-edge technology that surfers see everywhere else on the internet.

Our new site:

The attachment below contains a pamphlet describing the stained-glass windows in the sanctuary of Metropolitan United Church. To read it you will require Adobe Reader software, which is available free of charge for download from the Adobe website.

Metropolitan United Church is committed to ongoing communications with its members, adherents and the community. If you're not able to join us in person on Sunday, this section of our website will help keep you connected. You can browse through some of our regular publications, or engage in two-way communications opportunities, including:

• the weekly bulletin that accompanies our 11 a.m. Sunday service;
• MetNews, our quarterly newsletter (published quarterly or five times a year);
• our Annual Reports;
• congregational blogs (through this website) where members can share their opinions and thoughts with each other;
• brochures about the church architecture and history, including a Stained-Glass Window Tour guide;
• and of course, there's this website itself, which provides information about current and emerging issues of interest to the congregation.