CCMI Website Testimony

Dear Believers in Christ and Friends,

I consider it an honor to share my testimony about how this website became a reality! Today, Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 4:12am, when I woke up I heard The Lord saying, “Finish adding the videos on the website,” I said “Oh yes I should do that,” then I asked Him, “What else should be done so we can release the website?” The Lord replied right away, “Connect the plug-ins.” That’s when I said to myself, “Wow! The Lord is really talking to me; there is no way that I would be thinking about plug-ins right now.” Then I asked Him again “What else should I do Lord?” He answered so quickly again, “The tutorial about the Benefit Bar,” I said, “Oh yes that is very important.” I said let me add this to my to do list so I don’t forget. Next The Lord said: “Start writing the testimony about the website now.”

Pastor Kedesha suggested the same thing but I had not done it. I asked, “Now Lord?” The Lord said: “Don’t stop writing, don’t go back to sleep today, write about it because the testimony is not over, I will use it to save thousands of people.” I was very glad because the website was about 80% finished and there were still some challenges, so I thought that meant the Lord would continue doing more miracles with it! I said “Wow! Thank you Jesus, I am very happy to do this.” So here I am typing today to you, I will describe what The Lord did for the CCMI website to be updated. Since it is a long story I will start writing what happened since around the beginning of May, when I started to work on the website…

The first thing I started working on was getting a new template. I browsed the Internet and I came across a free offer. All I had to do was fill out a survey, which I did and obtained the template. Next day I wasn’t sure if I still liked the template. Around 8am I ask The Lord “Help me to find a good template Lord! A template that will have a Holy and Mac like style.” (lol) The Lord answered me and said, “Use the one you got last.” I said “Ok Lord.” (By the way, that template by default had an Apple Desktop picture on one of the slides.) So I installed the template and started to work on it. Everything was going very easy. There were a few challenges but by the grace of The Lord, I was able to work around them. With Jesus as my guide I was able to learn a lot.

When I got to the store page I got stuck. The products needed to be displayed on four columns and the categories listed to display were only two columns. There were no settings to make adjustments. For hours I tried looking for the settings to change the display but couldn’t find one. I looked in the store and website editor account settings but found nothing. So I decided to skip to a next page. When I got home, I went to my bedroom and got on my knees. I asked The Lord, “Lord please help me, there seems to be no way. I spend so much time and could not find a way. I don’t like that at all. Please show me the way.” Then I lied down, put my head on the pillow and closed my eyes, I was not asleep as yet. The Lord clearly said: “Log in to your account, go to the control panel, click on the dashboard and the settings are there.” I sat up really quickly and said: “What Lord? Log in the account, go to the control panel and click on the dashboard?” Not hearing a reply I said ok Lord and I went to sleep. Next morning around 5:10am I turned on the laptop and I knew what account The Lord was talking about. So I did what the Lord said but there was a huge page of HTML boxes. I thought, “Oh No! Lord this is HTML code, I know almost nothing about it” (at that time the only thing I knew about it was its name (lol)). And The Lord spoke again and said, “Well you have to start using it.” “Wow! Ok Lord!” Having no idea of how it worked, I just started reading it like normal text and in one of the boxes there was this code that said something like:

“Column= 3/3″ I thought, “Oh this must be it, if I type four in the place of the threes I believe it will display four columns now because before it was displaying only three columns.” So very carefully I put the cursor over the box and using the delete key very slowly I erased the number threes and typed fours in their place, the code went from looking like this: “column= 3/3″ to this: “column= 4/4”: It was my very first time modifying a HTML code, so I really wanted to be careful. I thought if I do anything wrong I don’t know how to fix it. (lol) I saved the changes and went to the store page.

Clicking on one of the categories I looked at the screen with so much amazement…. it was incredible The Lord knew HTML code and how to make websites! There were 4 columns displaying the products now! ALELUYA! ALELUYA! ALELUYA! I could not stop praising God! It was so amazing! The Lord really told me and showed me how to do it. There was no way that I would have gone in that path and even dare to change the HTML code that would have never crossed my mind! I said You are Powerful Lord and kept praising Him throughout the day.

As days passed there were a few functionalities that I had skipped over because of not being able to figure them out as yet. All the graphics, navigation and text were coming along. After a couple of weeks it was time for any skipped material to be completed.

I decided to finish setting up the front slider first. For hours I looked around for help and finally I found a link to a forum about the template. I gladly read the topics and noticed there was an article related to the slider set up. I clicked it and a message on the screen appeared saying: The answers posted on this forum are for registered users only. I thought, “Ok, I will just sign up.” I looked for the registration page and I found out that a monthly membership fee was required. Feeling a bit uncomfortable, I closed the tab and kept searching on Google. After a long while the task was no longer fun. The only info I found was that the template needed certain codes for custom fields, which made the slider work. Every template is made with its own codes for custom fields, if I had gotten a paid version of the template, I would have gotten the files that included all codes and documentation of the template, but I got a free version.

That day I went home with that still in mind. It bothered me so much that when I went to my room, I talked to The Lord about it. I said “Lord, You know everything. You know the codes that this template needs to make the slider work and I believe you can show what they are. Please show me the codes so we can have our website ready, because right now I am not in the position to get a membership with this company.”

Next morning I thought about contacting the company. I asked them to please teach us at least how to set up the slider. After sending an email, I declared: “In Jesus Name say yes!” In a few hours they replied:

“Pastor, we can set up an account where you will be able to post in the forums and have access to all of our template documents, just let me know what username, password and email you will be using.”

Wow! It was unbelievable they gave us free online membership including access to all tutorials and template documentations!

I replied with the requested information. A few hours later I decided to check if we had a response so I went to check the inbox again. Unbelievable! At the very moment I logged in, the email inbox refreshed. When the email arrived, there was a timed notification which said 0:00 minutes ago.

It was miraculous, I opened it and it was a welcome to our online community! Now CCMI was an official member of the company! Aleluya. The Lord did it again!

With great joy I started to browse the forums and looked at the tutorials which showed how to set up the front slider, but the settings the tutorial was showing were not in our website editor. I looked everywhere but they were not there. After doing more research we learned that we had an old version of the template. The video tutorial was showing how to set the slider up with the newest version of the template. So we posted a question on the forum asking how to make the slider work with the older version.

The following morning when starting to work on the website we noticed someone replied to the question in the forum and they said: Oh you are using an old version of the template you need to upgrade it and they put a link with a tutorial on how to upgrade the template. I had previously watched that tutorial already and was aware of the process of upgrading but for that we needed to buy the template upgrade which cost $70. There was another option for $150 for developers, so we thanked them and moved on to work on some corrections on the website and the day ended. Once again I asked The Lord, “Give us favor that the slider is on the home page and features important highlights. I know there is a way Lord…”

Next day while looking through our account, I came across the page that keeps records of all the products members have purchased. I had been there before and there was nothing; we had not purchased anything before, but this time there was an icon that looked like a web page with a download link on the right side. I open my eyes and my mouth dropped. I clicked on the link and the laptop started to download the file without asking for any credit card information or PayPal account information! When finished, I open it. I wanted to shout praises to The Lord because it was the upgraded version of the template! My God My God MY God He did it again! Thank you Jesus! You are Amazing! We got the template upgrade that cost $70 for free! I had to hold myself because I was in a peaceful and quiet public facility. (lol)