Renewal Ministries Launches New Web Site Designed and Developed by DesignHub

Site Lets Visitors Watch Renewal Ministries’ TV Programs, Listen to Radio Shows, Download Free Literature, and Purchase Books, Tapes, CDs, and Videos Online

Ann Arbor, MI (February 22, 2010) – Renewal Ministries, an Ann Arbor, MI-based organization dedicated to fostering renewal and evangelization in the Catholic Church, has launched its new Web site, www.renewalministries.net, designed and developed by DesignHub. Inc. of Saline, MI.

Visitors to the site can watch episodes of Renewal Ministries’ weekly television program, The Choices We Face, and listen to the organization’s daily radio programs, Food for the Journey and Fire on the Earth, online. Site visitors can also consult an online schedule for the days and times of the programs’ airings on local TV and radio stations.

A highlight of the new site is the online bookstore, where visitors can shop for, select, order delivery of, and pay for books, tapes, CDs, and videos offered by Renewal Ministries for purchase directly from the site.

Dozens of booklets and articles, plus current and back issues of Renewal Ministries’ monthly newsletter, are available as PDF files for free download from the site. Visitors may also sign up to receive future editions of the organization’s newsletter by mail.

A section of the site describes Renewal Ministries’ mission work in over 25 countries. The organization conducts rallies, schools of evangelization, leadership training, and conferences for priests and other religious and lay leaders. Renewal Ministries works under the blessing of local bishops and in conjunction local Catholic leaders.

The new site profiles Renewal Ministries’ key staff members, identifies the organization’s board of directors, describes speakers available and recommended for conferences and retreats, provides field reports on the organization’s recent missions, and features endorsements of the organization’s work from religious leaders across the globe.

Site visitors can consult a searchable and sortable calendar to learn of conferences, retreats, missions, and other events in which Renewal Ministries is involved.

Visitors can also make financial contributions to support the organization’s efforts via secure online credit card transactions.

On the site’s “Bulletin Board” blog, members of the Renewal Ministries team post their thoughts on topics of timely interest. Site visitors can comment on the posts.

More information is available from Renewal Ministries at P.O. Box 1426, Ann Arbor, MI 48106. Phone: (734) 662-1730. Fax: (734) 662-4697. Email: lgurta@renewalministries.net.

About DesignHub

DesignHub worked with Renewal Ministries to plan and design the new Web site, then handled its programming, build-out, testing, and launch.

The site has been built over DesignHub’s ContentHub content management system, which allows authorized Renewal Ministries staff members to make day-to-day updates to the site’s variable content themselves.

DesignHub is a creative services and marketing firm that works with clients on branding, website design and development, brochures, annual reports, newsletters, advertising, public relations, direct marketing, packaging designs, signage, and exhibits, as well as marketing strategies and plans. The company was founded in 1999.

Principals of DesignHub include: Karen Ragland, business manager and account executive; Ted Chesky, creative director and graphic designer; and Chris Kochmanski, marketing strategist, account executive, and copywriter. The firm has on-staff and freelance professionals for graphic design and Web site design and development.

In addition to Renewal Ministries, DesignHub’s clients include Advanced Photonix Inc., Aluminum Supply Co., American Aqua, Bemis Farms Childcare, Berry & Associates, Center for Automotive Research (CAR), Center for Information Management (CIM), Center for Student Studies (CSS), Chelsea-Area Wellness Foundation, Chelsea Lumber, Chizek Custom Builders, Chrysler LLC, Corporate F.A.C.T.S., Daniels and Zermack Associates, Daycroft Montessori School, Dexter Research Center, Dimensional Engineering, Electrocon International, Evangelical Homes of Michigan, The First Congregational Church of Ann Arbor, Hardwood Solutions, Homeowner Services of America (HSA), INSTALL Michigan, JCG Associates, JPRA Architects, Lamaze Family Center of Ann Arbor, Marshall Sales Inc., McMullen Company, Metropolitan Building Services, Motawi Tileworks, OptiMetrics Inc., PTC, Packaging and Shipping Specialists (P.A.S.S.), Peters Building Co., Phoenix Contractors, Power Wellness, Program for Automotive Labor and Education (PALE), Rand Construction, City of Saline, Saline Area Chamber of Commerce, Saline District Library, Saline Parks and Recreation Department, Samson Senior Properties, SignGraphix, Sircon, Solution Recovery Services (SRS), Sun Engineering, Survey Sciences Group (SSG), the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and Vinylife Hose Co.

Further information is available from DesignHub, Inc., 600 W. Michigan Ave., Saline, MI 48176. Phone: (734) 944-8705. 

Media Contact:
Chris Kochmanski
DesignHub, Inc.
(734) 944-8705
chris@design-hub.com
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