In the many years that these chat rooms have been important channels on the Undernet, there have been many changes, and the ministry continues to mature with time. With any changes, there are growing pains. Despite such change, our commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ continues and it is our prayer that people who visit the channel are encouraged and inspired to walk more closely with God.

People ask about our prese4nce on Starlink-IRC.org; the best we can say is that we tried. Perhaps the problem is that people from undernet didn't want to make a home there, and that the small number of "locals" weren't interested. However we have one channel over there that we are still evaluating, and we are holding the fort for another room as well.

Minute by minute supervision in each chat room is maintained by a team of Channel Operators who are each registered with the Channel Service people in Undernet - and while our ops are located in most of the different continents of the world, there are obviously times of the day or night when unfortunately there is no supervision available. Such is the international nature of our channel.

You may look at a pictorial view of a typical channel management (that of #Christian) here.

Channel Operators are helped in their task by "bots" (robots).

Management of all aspects of the channel is vested in a group of "regulars" who are always prepared to be approached by guests in the event of a conflict.

The channel's structure can be seen from a link at the bottom of this page. It has been suggested that the Senior ops in many ways are like the elders and diaconate in a church scenario, with the ops as those of the congregation who have "membership". This is really rather more structured than most of us would like.

Few of us ever stay with the operator's "hat" on at the top of the nick list, and while we give all our regulars who have undernet login credentials with the ability to voice themselves most don't indicate their ability. We try to be no different from the rest of the guests, and those who choose to come in are welcomed like any visitor to any church ought to be, with love and fellowship.

To conclude, we as a team, and as individuals, are very grateful to all of the ops who have in the past, and who currently give their time and service to the Lord for this ministry, including those who have moved on. It is our hope, that despite changes from within the ministry, the overall effect is one of ongoing improvement for those who regularly visit the channel.

They have also helped establish channels with a technical purpose, for example associated with helping other channels be re-established after "dying" because of a lack of interest, or those associated with specific computer systems.

We fully support our brothers and sisters who speak other languages or have slightly different views which are not in contradiction with the essentials of biblical Christianity.

You may read a little more about this on our history webpage.

Thank you for visiting and reading our web site.

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