| ISMagazine.com | Religion on the Net |
March, 2000 |
February 15, 2000 -- The Society of the Little Flower invites you
to experience its newly redesigned website at http://www.littleflower.org. Known as a
Catholic oasis on the Internet, site visitors can become part of a spiritual community;
complete with daily reflections, prayers of petition, and daily scripture readings with a
new related prayer every day.
The Society of the Little Flower is devoted to celebrating the life and works of St. Therese of Lisieux, also known as the little flower. Known for her little way approach to life, St. Therese promised that once in Heaven, she would let fall a shower of roses. The roses remain a symbol of her love today.
The Society of the Little Flower website, http://www.littleflower.org, captures the spirit of St. Therese by presenting details about her life and works in an easy to use design.
Other features of the Society of the Little Flower website include:
Spiritual Celebrations; special times during the year when individuals can participate in Novena masses in honor of St. Therese
Share the Spirit; an opportunity for visitors to send a free online St. Therese postcard to a friend or loved one with customizable e-mail messages
St. Therese's Intercessions; details on how St. Therese has interceded in the lives of people around the world, and the inspiring events that have occurred
Free Gift; everyone who visits the website can request a free St. Therese prayer card, containing the two most popular St. Therese prayers, and a copy of the original portrait painted by her sister
Founded in 1923, the Society of the Little Flower is the largest organization in the world promoting devotion to St. Therese. More than 300,000 donors actively share her spirit.
For more information visit http://www.littleflower.org.
* Membership Up 80% Since Last Quarter * 4th Quarter Average Monthly Pageviews Exceeds 16 Million * Company Rejects New Barter Revenue * Profitability Set As Goal: Revenue Model Changed; Costs Reduced
CHANTILLY, Va., Jan. 28 -- Crosswalk.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMEN; AOL Keyword: Crosswalk), said today that membership of its www.crosswalk.com, the leading Internet portal serving the broad Christian community, exceeded one million at the end of 1999, up 80 percent over membership at the end of the third quarter. President and CEO William Parker said ``this represents a significant benchmark for us. It signals an opportunity for us to initiate the next logical and important steps in our growth. Our goal is to position ourselves, through a combination of revenue growth and expense reductions, to obtain a net profit as quickly as possible. Whereas there can be no certainty as to the date we will achieve that objective, we believe it could be obtained as soon as the fourth quarter of this year,'' Parker said.
The company announced the following:
Membership at December 31, 1999, was 1,085,878, representing an 80 percent increase over membership of 603,566 at the end of the third quarter, and a 636 percent increase in membership versus December 31, 1998.Pageviews during the fourth quarter averaged 16,323,504, a 37 percent increase over third quarter average monthly pageviews and a 641 percent increase over average monthly pageviews in the fourth quarter of 1998. Parker said that despite the gain, pageviews in the fourth quarter were below the company's expectations. ``During the quarter, we upgraded to new servers, a new operating system, and new database. As a result, we are prepared for our envisioned growth, but we underestimated the complexity of these moves,'' Parker said. ``For several days we did not operate as efficiently as we had hoped, our members were inconvenienced, and we believe that tempered growth in pageviews.''