Christian Social Networking News

Christian.com has announced plans to merge recently acquired sites - HisHolySpace.com and FaithItUp.com - to become the starting place of the new Christian.com social networking community.

As far as we know, this is the first time two large Christian social networks have merged together.

From the Christian.com announcement:

This first Christian.com site launch will happen in July 2008, and we are calling it the “Pre-Beta” Christian.com site. The site’s features and functionality will remain similar to what the members of HisHolySpace and FaithItUp are used to, which is very close to the functionality of MySpace. Members of both sites will have most or all of their information brought over to the new site, so there will be very little for members to have to do to enjoy the new site.

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Christian.com President Lee Raney shared more about plans for the new site in the announcement:

It is with great pleasure that I am announcing something that has been several years in the making, and has already involved thousands of hours of hard work and prayer by myself and many others.

In some ways the journey for me started back in the mid-90’s, but in other ways it is only now beginning. I envisioned an on-line Christian community, a “social network”, many years before MySpace or Facebook were in existence. Finally many years later, in 2008, we are getting ready to finally launch Christian.com, and my goal for the site is ambitious yet simple…to build the best Christian social network in the world.

But not just a social network. The site should be more than a “Christian Myspace” or a “Christian Facebook”. We can do better than a copy-cat of a secular site, and the vision is much bigger than that. Christians need something special on-line, something unique, something…God-ordained. And it has to be something that the community builds- not just me. I am committed to the community - the site members who want to be a part of this vision - coming together and being a part of designing and building Christian.com. It will not happen overnight, and will take some time and a lot of changes and improvements before we get it right. But I think the outcome of the process will be something truly unique in Christian history- a community of millions of Christians worldwide “linked in Jesus” and growing together in spiritual maturity and in love for Christ and for one another.