News & Announcements

If you’re just recently visiting the website, you may have noticed there’s been a few changes made to the website.

Our theme has been completely overhauled with the goal of making information more visible and accessible, such as on the front page where we have removed the ‘tabbed content’ area and instead replaced it with buttons to a few important areas of our website. We’ve also added rotating banners where we want to post important links to events and other various topics. And finally, a “Quick Updates” section for the areas you probably (and should!) check most often.

It was also a goal to increase the overall performance of the website,  as well as making it easier to maintain and update. Ultimately, the goal was to simplify.

These changes marks the 3rd iteration of “CCGaming 2.0″, which brings our theme version to 2.2.

You may find that, currently, there are a few things missing, such as the rules pages. We’ll continue to update the site as we go forward. These changes have been a work-in-progress for some time with no real progress towards actual implementation, that I felt it was important to at least get it out, start using it, and make further changes as we go on.

The Forums still maintains the old header style, but we’ll be updating it fairly soon.

Let us know in the comments what you think!

Members,

Please join us in TeamSpeak tomorrow evening at 7PM EST for a prayer meeting for the families of FatherMike and Nemesis.

FatherMike and his family have suffered the loss of his daughter this last week, and need our continuing support.

Nemesis, a former Council Member like Mike, went home to God tonight, and will be sorely missed. Ellen Murphy; his girlfriend, and his children and family should be raised in prayer as well.

Thank you for your attention and participation.

In 2003, the founders of the Christian Crew designed our game servers and website around the idea that everyone playing online games should be able to do so without rampant profanity, pornography in-game or otherwise, and that Christians and non-Christians alike might like to play in a family friendly atmosphere.

As the Christian Crew grew, quite a few people who were not Christian began to enjoy the servers and the camaraderie of the community, and wanted to join.

The founder and leader of the community, Tykur, began a group called FoCC (Friends of Christian Crew) who were considered full members, were allowed full admin powers, and had their own place in the community, though this group was reserved for those who didn’t consider themselves Christians YET, were seeking but weren’t sure, or were just great friends who hadn’t decided on God at that time.

Over the course of years, FoCC changed into ACC (Allies of The Christian Crew), and at one point, a member of ACC even held a Council Position as ACC Liaison.

On January 1, 2009, ACC was disbanded from our community. Since the beginning of 2009, however, the Council has noticed a distinct lack of the types of conversations of witness, debates, and strong ministry (particularly on our forums) that we had prior to disbanding ACC.

Due to some thoughtful discussion, and a lot of consideration of this issue, the Christian Crew has now officially re-opened the application process for Allies of the Christian Crew.

What does this mean to you? Well, if you’re already a professed Christian member, but you have friends who are not who wouldn’t mind being a part of a fun and lively community, they can join you in CC! The difference in tags just shows that they are not a professed Christian. The ACC tag still means full membership, and we expect an ACC Members’ behavior and standards to be the same as ours in servers, forums, and TeamSpeak, but anyone who asks about the ACC tag will understand that this person respects and enjoys our server and community without being a professed Christian themselves.

We hope that the re-inclusion of ACC amongst us will spur new dialogue, stronger ministry and witnessing, and a reviving of our own fire as Christians as we ambassador to our new ACC members as we get to know them.

Anyone having specific questions about ACC not addressed here are more than welcome to PM any Council Member of Staff Member, or to ask questions in a forum thread that will be put together for this topic.

So, start inviting anyone you like to our community! Tell them WE ARE CHRISTIAN but it’s okay if they aren’t, as long as they want a clean, intelligent group to have fun playing games online with, and as long as they understand we just might witness to them and discuss God with them because we care and are commanded to do so!

Thanks everyone, for your time…

NeoJabez
Council Operations

Back in June of 2010 we re-launched the CC website with a new look and new goals. One of those goals was to create a blog where we would post various types of articles related to CC, Christianity, gaming, and more. But as time went on we found that the blog wasn’t being used like we had hoped and it was soon decided to shut it down and use just the forums instead. Since that time there has been a few of us who have wanted to bring the blog back, and today I’m excited to announce that we are doing just that.

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