The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum An exhortation to support the forum

Greetings to all the Highway users,
I am curious if any of you here may have had a favored Christian radio program or maybe even a favored secular talk show host that you listened to on a regular basis? I would imagine that those who can relate to my question recall how eager you were to listen each day, even to the point of arranging your daily schedule so that you can be free to listen. Then, one day, you turn on your station, and that favored radio program has been replaced. The program that you benefited from so much is gone with out any sort of explanation. Remember the emptiness you felt? That sour feeling of loneliness that was once filled by the teaching of your favored teacher, or the opinions of your respected radio host?

Well, on a even more personal level, this could be the genuine feeling of many of you when on one morning, you click on your internet browser, hit your bookmark button, scroll down to the "highway discussion board" link, and after a 30 second delay of your computer failing to locate the website, that annoying "page not found" message comes up. You think to yourself, "Oh, there must be something wrong with the server, I'll check back later," but alas, after a week of vainly trying to link to the Highway, that horrible feeling sinks deep into your heart: "The Highway must be gone!"

This is a potential reality folks, one that is closer than you think. Though Pilgrim and the other moderators do not solicit funds on a regular basis, a website like this one is not the cheapest thing to maintain. It costs money. On occasion, a request to help support the Highway is posted, but sadly, only a scant few actually respond. That is sad, because it demonstrates a general ignorance of the cost of maintaining a highclass site such as this one, as well as how people take the existence of this site for granted. Surely it will not take this webpage going away for us all to realize the importance of helping out monetarily with its maintance. Many of us benefit from it daily. Do you not enjoy the fellowship? the meeting of new friends? the challenge you receive from fellow believers in your own personal walk with God? The things you learn from one another? I am a non-CT baptist among mostly prebyterian baby sprinklers, and I get blessed all the time from the interaction I have with them.
If anyone is benefiting on a daily basis from the interaction you receive on this message board, then I implore you to reach down into your wallet, handbag, purse, and spare 5, 10, maybe even 20 dollars, to support the administrators who maintain a site we all hold dear to our hearts. Obviously this site means something to you or you would not bother hanging around and checking it regularly. If you have a problem with paypal, then contact Pilgrim and get an address you can send a check to; that is what I did.

At any rate, please consider the gravity of my words, or one day soon, you are going to be left with no Highway website and then you will regret not helping.

Thanks
Fred

I second the exhortation!

Maybe Pilgrim can tell us how much it costs a day, week, month, or year?

Hey, Pilgrim will get more money than we actually give him because he's in CANADA!!

Dear Fred:

I just want to thank you for making that post.

I have been concerned for some time about the Highway disappearing one day too. The Highway has been a wonderful place of fellowship, education, correction and support for me over the past couple of years and I am thankful to the Lord for providing it, but He, I believe, expects us to express our appreciation for what He has provided.

It is a pleasure, and a privilege, and I mean that, to support the Highway regularly. But the more important aspect for me is that I am helping in the Lord's work, in addition to deriving a benefit myself.

May the Lord move the hearts of those who come here regularly and partake of the spiritual food and Christian fellowship be moved to write a check for 5, 10 or 20 dollars every month. Isn't the Highway worth more than a meal at Burger King every month? Ask Jeff for his mailing address and when you write your checks for those other things, write one more for this ministry.

You won't miss the money, I assure you, but you will miss the Highway.

In Him,

Gerry

Fred,

Thank you for your kind comments and support for the Highway. Your words and donations are most appreciated by the staff.

At this time there is a significant shortfall between operating costs and financial support. May the Lord continue to bless this ministry, the fellowship of likeminded believers, and provide the support that is needed.


Wes

I love the Highway board and would hate to see it close. I can't promise I can help this week or next, as I'm going to school now and don't have disposable income right now I can send. But I am hoping my pell grant will come in the next month and will be able send a gift then. If I can, I will try and send something before that.
It may not be much, but maybe every little bit could help.

Pilgrim has a great ministry here and I for one have been blessed in a lot of ways and am grateful for his hard work.

I will continue to pray for him and the work here.

Blessings.

I would like to express my humble thanks to Fred for his encouraging remarks. It's not often that we receive expressions of gratitude from the website visitors and/or Board members, thus each one means so very much when they come our way.

Marie,

You asked how much it costs us to maintain the website and this Board for a certain length of time. I admit, I am a bit reluctant to say exactly how much, and to be honest it would be only a relative amount that I could give you as things do change; mostly increase in cost. But let me simply say that it costs me personally in excess of $2000 annually to meet all the various expenses involved. (the labor is free <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/giggle.gif" alt="" /> )

And yes, there is the matter of the exchange rate, but perhaps you are not taking into account that most of the costs involved are paid in U.S. funds. Thus, it actually costs me more since 90% of the costs have come out of my own piggy bank. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

In His marvelous grace,