FAQ For EveryStudent.Com

Can we not use our personal photos for the email system?

Yes, if that means pulling peoples' pictures whenever they go on a trip to creative access countries. The US Web Team doesn’t mind the hassle of putting on and pulling off the photos online for us. We are also developing a system for this issue too. Another alternative is to give an artistic rendering of a person's photo or use animated picture to replace the face portrait. The worst case is that that person doesn't get picked. But the US Web Team don't have any evidence that would be the case.

Would I get 10 emails a day?

Unlikely. Now 4 staff photos appear on the site at one time. Once a face is clicked, another 4 faces will appear. In few weeks, the email system will be rotating the staff photos in chronological order i.e. once a face is clicked, another face will come into the same page with 3 other faces who are not clicked on. Click thumbnails below to view current email system and the coming improvised email system.

What are the two aspects of E-mentoring?

The two aspects are prayer mentoring and mentoring.

What is the difference between prayer mentoring and mentoring?

Prayer Mentoring is a subset of mentoring. Praying in an email is a very effective way of presenting needs to the Lord while encouraging the person who has given the prayer request.
In Mentoring , you come alongside and spiritually encourage those who write to you. You also share the hope of the gospel in their responses.

Will students be eligible to do E-mentoring?

YES! We will start to recruit student E-mentors at Metamorphosis 2007 when EveryStudent.com is officially launched.

If I cannot meet the person face to face, isn’t it lack of personal touch?

According to a statistics in the US, huge number of people online especially teenagers consider their virtual friends (total strangers) to be “real friends”. Because of the anonymity of their identities online, people are more comfortable and open to share their inner struggles and pains with you online. This will be further explained and illustrated in the staff E-mentor training.

I’m not sure if I’ve the time and capacity to do E-mentoring. Ministry is busy enough.
CLT is rethinking the campus evangelism strategy to reach out to every student via the internet. This may imply that staff have to bring their laptops to school to correspond emails requests from the website. If need to, a new role of campus staff is to literally clock certain hours per work to do E-mentoring to reach out to the internet savvy students on campuses.

When someone click on ES.com and click on another page within ES.com, is it consider 2 hits or visitors on ES.com on the statistics?

Before answering this question, let's define some terms. There is no correlation between hits and people. One person viewing just one web page could result in several hits (I won't go into detail here). So it’s best just to ignore hits.

When a person visits EveryStudent.com, their IP address and a time stamp are recorded in the server logs for every thing they do. Statistical packages will treat all this activity as one visit, unless there is a time gap of 30 or 60 minutes (I'm not sure what ours is). If a person comes back after 30 minutes, their activity is treated as a second visit. Statistical packages have algorithms that they use to group visits by the same user. Hence the term "unique visitor". But these algorithms vary and are part guess work.

When the US Web Team puts up numbers for our site, they are reporting the number of "visits". So as long as there is not a 30-minute break in a person's activity, they can go all over the site, but will still be counted as one visit.

Every time we visit EveryStudent.com, does it register as 1 visitor?

Yes, anyone anywhere who visits the site generates a visit. But once we get the traffic up, the percentage of "false positives" (visits by staff or crusaders) becomes negligible.

Does EveryStudent.com have a yardstick as to what constitutes a person who indicates decision for Christ?

EveryStudent.com is designed so that the only way a person can navigate to the follow up page is by clicking the link "I just asked Jesus into my life (some helpful information follows)..." at the end of the articles that present the Gospel with an invitation. So we use the number of times the follow up page is viewed for number of indicated decisions.