This is the chat transcript prepared for the event called "New Year, New Years Resolutions, New Life" for those that missed it!

Welcome to "New Year, New years resolutions, New life."

So Firstly I would like to wish you a Happy New Year!

Secondly who made a new years resolution this year?

Well I understand as making "new years resolutions" has gone out of fashion hasn't it - probably because most people don't keep them...

However this year in chat we have a special new years resolution ... we want to be purposeful in seeing people come to "new life" in Christ.

Hence tonight's New Year, New years resolutions, new life.

I would like to share with you the vision for chat for the coming year.

Has anyone heard of Israel Houghton?

I have been listening to some of his songs in my car over the last few days and a couple that have really encouraged me and made me think of some of the things I wanted to share with you tonight.

There is a song called "Take the limits off": No limits no boundaries I see increase all around me stretch forth break forth release me enlarge my territory

I guess this is my prayer for Christian Chat this year, for the website, for the people who make chat worthwhile - you the users, for the monitors, for the guests to chat...

That God would prosper you in 2008 in every area of your life.

So this year we are having a year of mission - of reaching out to people, as part of that there are three things I would like to share with you:

Firstly this year we will be joining with the Global Day of prayer on 11th May 2008

Also leading up to that we will be having 10 days of prayer

You will be able to find more information about that in the meantime at http://www.globaldayofprayer.com

However we will be providing resources to help you in this. It may be you also want your church to join in with this so these resources will also be able to help you.

Secondly we will be having a specific week of mission in chat from 7th July 2007

Did you know we have people from over 186 countries of the 194 countries in the world visit Christian Chat last year?

This mission will be helping us to reach out to people all over the world,

To reach out to our friends and neighbour etc but also to reach out to people in different countries.

As part of that we will be releasing resources and various events in the run up to that week.

Then during the week we will have a number of events and different things online to reach out to people that week.

Thirdly we are looking into having an evangelist in Christian Chat this year.

The post currently would be unpaid but the persons role would include reaching out to people in chat, developing our evangelistic mission, encouraging people to reach out online and possible developing the ministry offline.