Internet Work Report for 2025
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Internet Work Report for 2025
I. The Mission
1. Go into all the world and preach the gospel – Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:15-16.
2. How?
3. Use the power of the Internet to do this.
4. Revelation 14:6
II. What do We Have Available?
1. So the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.” (Exodus 4:2).
2. We now have two websites.
1) Newbostoncoc.org
2) Gewatkins.net
3) 5974 total pages of content.
3. Items on Newbostoncoc.org
1) Map
2) Bulletin – all bulletins since 2015-2025 and 1981-1983
3) Sermon Outlines – 684
4) Bulletin Articles – 496
5) Questions and Answers – 145
6) Total of 1337 items published.
4. Items on gewatkins.net
1) 1624 sermon outlines
2) 3013 bulletin articles
3) Total of 4637 items published.
5. Video work
1) We have published 1142 videos on YouTube.
2) Published on YouTube since April 11, 2019.
3) In March, 2020 we began live streaming.
a. It is easier to live stream because we don’t have to process video.
b. It is more attractive to live stream to people who are interested.
c. It does not replace the in-person assembly.
d. It is for evangelism and to minister to the disabled and sick.
e. We average about 10 viewers per episode.
6. Facebook Page
1) Active since 2010.
2) 1100 Followers
3) Publish bulletin articles and sermon outlines twice a day.
7. Audio work
1) Sunday AM Sermons
2) Sermons by Guest Speakers and Our Men
8. These mediums enable . . .
1) Members to review what was taught.
2) Visitors to learn more about us.
3) The seeker to find the truth.
III. Who and How Many Are Using It?
1. “As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai” (Numbers 1:19).
2. Newbostoncoc.org
1) Visitors – we had 64,063 visitors.
2) Pageviews – 119,499 pageviews.
3) (Show map of countries that visited our website.)
a. U.S.A. is number 1 with 35,538 visitors.
b. Philippines is number 2 with 3677 visitors.
c. Nigeria is number 3 with 2989 visitors.
4) Our highest month in 2025 was March 2025 with 13,482 pageviews.
a. Like handing out 434 tracts everyday for a month.
3. Gewatkins.net
1) Visitors – 221,648
2) Pageviews – 907,133
4. Places that we serve.
1) We serve all 50 states in the US.
2) In 2025 we served 223 “countries” in the world.
5. Who is using?
1) Weekend and Full-time Preachers
2) Bible Class Teachers
3) Missionaries in Foreign Countries
4) Visitors Looking for Us
5) Prospective Members
6) You!
IV. What Can We Do?
1. “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves” (James 1:22).
2. People
1) Some congregations pay thousands a month for their websites.
2) We do NOT pay a specialized person to do this work for us.
3) This saves us tens of thousands of dollars.
3. Just for our Website
1) We pay for our domain name http://newbostoncoc.org – $10 / year.
2) We pay for our hosting services that are independent from Amazon, Google, Yahoo, and the other big name companies that have been cancelling some websites. It is about $205 / year.
3) We pay for some security services to protect our website from hackers and other evil people. $12 / year.
4) We pay for a certificate to encrypt our website. $80 / year.
5) All together, it runs about $25.58 / month.
4. Additional Services and Equipment
1) We pay for computers and other equipment like cameras, recorders, and network devices.
2) These are one-time expenses usually and they are used for more than just Internet work.
3) We pay for our internet connection at the building with Windstream.
5. What would it take for us to visit all 50 states personally?
6. What would it take for us to visit all those countries and territories personally?
7. What would it take just to mail this amount of literature to those places?
V. This is a good work.
1. There are 8 billion souls in the world. This has the greatest potential to reach them.
2. There are thousands of gospel preachers using our websites to prepare and preach.
3. We will never know the good that we have done with this until we reach eternity.