Well everyone,

Christian Teen Forums is about to roll into 2009. It’s funny, I look back when I started this site as just a place for a couple of my friends to hang out and chat on (two of which are still here,~ Jessica~ and Sephiroth) and realize I never thought the site would still be going and be where it is at today!

CTF is what it is today because of our members. We have had some hard times over this past year and also some fun times. We have seen different changes take place and seen members come and go. This past year CTF had its 5 year birthday and hopes to continue to see more years to come.

God really has blessed CTF with a great group of members. We have a very diverse group from different countries, age ranges and genders. Although sometimes we may have are little issues with each other, we come together as a group and are able to continue to get along and run a strong tight online community. Many members know each other on a first name basis and have become best of friends. Some of our members have meet their significant others on CTF.

In 2008 God blessed CTF with all these things and I pray that in 2009 we will work in Gods will and continue to serve him and his kingdom though CTF.

Dave (Spiderman) and I have been talking about what we can offer to our members in 2009. Some things we are currently working are as follows:

Faster Approval of Posts for Newbies – We will work on developing better ways to approve the posts for newbies faster than we have in the past. We have a couple of tools and methods that we will be implementing in the first quarter of the year to make this possible.

Faster Load Times – CTF already loads at a decent speed however the advertisements on our page often slow the page load time way down. We will work to develop new code to keep the load time on the ads now so that you can better experience CTF.

Better Advertisements – Currently we get our advertisements from two sources. These sources choose the ads that will be displayed on our site and they are not always the best for a Christian Teen website. I am currently working on a new system to deliver our ads and hope to have more control over the ads that appear on our site. Also in 2009, we will look for sponsorships that may allow us to run Ad free greatly increasing the enjoyment of CTF.

More Content and a Wiki – We have plans in place to add more content to CTF. We are not sure exactly what will be added but we are thinking about adding a Wiki, Devotionals and Youth Ministry tools.

We need your opinions and ideas on what CTF can do in 2009 to better serve you, the members. Please reply to this thread or post your suggestions in the comments and suggestions section on the forum. We look forward to a great 2009 here at CTF

God Bless and HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!