If we cannot get online timely, we log off. Many churches log on to a commercial ISP to host their sites and provide email accounts. Some providers offer free accounts, but we must beware, as accounts are besieged with advertising. The site indicates that one of their sponsors is Psychic Love Reading, certainly not a site clergy want their members visiting. Those web sites that are successful are those that enhance the spiritual and organizational life of their congregations.
Email provides anonymity.
This is beneficial for the embarrassed student as well as for those questioning God in their lives. A web site can provide answers to questions without someone having to walk to through the door of the sanctuary. This is the main denominational page for the United Methodist Church located and maintained in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a very professional page and has easy links to any possible site that laity or clergy could ask for. While searching, I found a chat room for cooperative parish ministry.