Bob Hoffman: Missionary, Server Wrangler, and Reluctant Participant in the Collapse of Civilization Bob Hoffman is a veteran Independent Baptist missionary who looked at the Internet—an electronic wilderness populated by hackers, heretics, spambots, abandoned WordPress plugins, and people who still use “password123”—and declared, “This looks like a mission field.” Together […]
“When you go on the internet, please pray for the Hoffman Family—your Missionaries to Cyberspace.” Volume 39, Issue 4 Greetings in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! We are thankful for another opportunity to share how the Lord is working through FamilyNet International and the Cyber-Missions ministry. […]
As missionaries to cyberspace, Maureen and I are always looking for practical ways to use technology to reach people with the truth of God’s Word. One of our newest projects is the development of an AI-powered chatbot for Baptist.org. The chatbot is being trained to answer questions using the information […]
A student from Iowa is taking the course Light from the Old Testament. Course 4 talks all about the Tabernacle. His comment is that this is a great lesson and that all need to take this course! A Student from Kansas is taking New Life in Christ Course 3 and […]
The Internet has long provided missionaries and churches with opportunities to reach people who might never enter a church building. We are now exploring another way to extend that outreach: carefully designed artificial-intelligence chatbots placed on ministry websites. These chatbots allow visitors to ask questions in ordinary language and receive […]
A couple of months ago, I had the privilege of meeting Pastor Jerry Terrell of Central Baptist Church in Athens, Texas. Brother Terrell was interested in learning more about our ministry and the website services we provide to Independent Baptist churches and ministries. Central Baptist Church had an expensive website […]
FamilyNet International continues to work behind the scenes to strengthen the reliability and long-term stability of the free hosting services we provide to Independent Baptist churches, missionaries, evangelists, and ministry works. We are currently serving approximately 165 ministries through our web hosting ministry. These websites represent churches, missionaries, Bible ministries, […]
“When you go on the internet, please pray for the Hoffman Family – your missionaries to Cyberspace.” Volume 39 Issue 3 (May/June/2026) Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! The Latest News: Praise God, the new server continues to run well! Since coming online in January, we have had […]
I recently received a call from Missionary Steve Ryder, who serves the Lord in Cuenca, Ecuador. We have had the privilege of hosting the Ryders’ missionary website for some time at https://ryders2ecuador.com. Brother Steve contacted me because he wanted to establish a website for their home church in Ecuador, Iglesia […]
There was a serious security issue recently disclosed by cPanel involving cPanel & WHM servers worldwide. On April 28, 2026 at 12:05 PM CST, cPanel published an initial security advisory for CVE-2026-41940, an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting cPanel & WHM systems. This vulnerability is considered critical because it could allow […]