Welcome to the "Little Well" of Christ Centered Faith Resources page!
The original site was a static website built in 1997 to allow members of University Hill United Church congregation in Vancouver to access written copies of the sermon. In 1998, the site became a "sermon database" which allowed our minister, Rev. Ed Searcy, to upload his sermons on his time schedule, without any dependence on the availability of the site webmaster. Being a database driven site, a search feature was added to allow users to easily find past sermons as well.
The search ability allowed the site to become a popular resource site and requests were made to expand the site to work for any number of congregations and too include additional types of resources such as prayers, devotionals, children's stories, and drama scripts. A new name was needed and I liked so many biblical stories happened near a community well. This lead to the idea of this site becoming a small gathering place where folks could find and share worship resources, and that concept lead to the name Littlewell.com - The Little Well of Church Resources.
Before all the new site changes came online, streaming media capabilities was now possible on the internet. Visitors could play a media file while it downloaded. Churches shifted their focus and wanted to upload media recordings of their entire service. Being a community site, there were legal concerns as uploaded media often contained copyrighted material and privacy issues. This was also at a time that storage space and bandwidth were expensive. When free sites like YouTube launched, it made sense to remain as a text only resource site to keep our site free. However, congregations continued to migrate away to A/V only formats, and the last sermon text was posted to the site in October of 2008.
The plan has been to keep the site up as an archive site as long as demand continued. Despite not having any new content since 2008, the demand has remained pretty consistent for almost 30 years. Running the site for this long has required the code is rewritten every now and then to keep the site chugging along on new servers and current with modern practices. Some changes included better search capabilities, support for mobile devices and most recently to allow for dark mode.
Over the Christmas break of 2024, I had time to once again review the site and although traffic has started to show signs of decline, it received enough that I decided to rebuild the site and migrate it to a new server. I love writing code and enjoy donating my spare time to help different ministries. If your ministry has a software need and believe I can help you make your ministry more effective, please reach out to me using this site's contact form .
Thank you for your time and I hope you enjoy using the newest version of the site!