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PUBLISHED - 24th July 2026
We’re very pleased to say that Janette Sturgis, our Resource Curator, has been hard at work making some wonderful improvements to our online eShop. Janette shares all below:
Client Services received a phone call the other day saying that: “the Christian Living section on the eShop has far too many books to wade through, we can’t find what we are wanting.”
You may be surprised to know that phone call cheered my heart!
Why? Because it confirmed my own feelings about the eShop and validated my beavering away in the background to address it. As with all systems, unless you keep on top of them, the eShop has suffered from a lack of coordinated attention. Christian Living became the default place to put most things!
Not any more. With this section and the others, I am working to provide subcategories that will narrow down the search. So, for example, Daily Readings, Reflections and Poetry are now divided into: 365 readings; Daily Readings (other specified periods such as 40 days); Reflections and Poetry.
The other helpful change is that when you select the main heading from the left-hand menu and go to the page, these subheadings appear at the top of the page so you don’t have to navigate back to the main menu.
In addition to this, new main category headings have also been produced such as Advent & Christmas; Lent & Easter, which have made our Spirituality & Devotional section more manageable. And who knew we had children’s books? They have now been pulled out of obscurity and given their own category heading.
This is still a work in progress! The number of books in Christian Living has gone down from 310 titles to 192 with the books being found homes in more appropriate sections. The subcategories I am still pondering. One will be Discipleship, please pray I have the inspiration for the rest, and do keep returning to the eShop to see how it has progressed.
So, was it a negative comment from a client? No, constructive criticism that spurs us on to improve.
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