History Page
An unofficial site relating to:
"The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints."
| I have been asked so many times in e-mail messages about how I got the idea of the WOW mailing list. After receiving too many to personally answer, I decided to put this page together for all of you on our Website. |
| On September 25th, 1996 I sent out the following quote to about 20 of my friends on the internet, just to try out some mailing list software: "Hands that work are more blessed than Lips that pray" Howard W. Hunter This was one of my favorite quotes and I didn't even have the reference to it. I just wrote it down at a Christmas devotional when he was Prophet. My friends seemed to like it, so I told them I would try to send one out each day. As I was playing with the mailing list software filtering, I realized that I could set it up so people could sign themselves up on this list and, whenever I would check my mail, The program would automatically send a welcome letter and add them to the list. Well...the list started growing by the tens, then hundreds, then by the thousands. I have, since those early days, moved the list to my server so that welcome messages come back to new subscribers right away. Over the years I have added a links page, and then a search engine for all the archived quotes. The links page is now run by a very dedicated WOW list member by the name of Bill Burch in Arizona. There are many WOW volunteers who are helping DailyWOW get out to the world. I began this list just for fun, however please let me take a moment to let you know how my heart and life has changed since this list began. I have had a ton of thank you mail arrive in my e-mail box. Please take a moment to read a couple of them. I know how much this list means over 5000 people in the, over 30 countries around the world who are WOW list members. The list is growing at a steady rate of 15 to 30 new members each day and is even mentioned in the book "Mormons on the Internet" in the deseret book stores. We are now begining to send out DailyWOW in other languages. I am so very pleased to be a part of so very many people's lives as they are touched by the spirit as they read these quotes. The Lord can even touch people's hearts over the internet. I look forward to many more years of service. |
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