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During overnight online activities before dawn on Monday, I uploaded the sermon audio and text for the social media promotion I would be posting later in the day. By the time I got back out of bed, there was a text awaiting me from a church colleague about the website being down.

When I checked the site, all that appeared was a notice that the account had been suspended. The link to contact the provider actually pointed to the webmaster account for our domain, which probably would not have worked.

My initial thought was that this was some kind of hack. The church website had been hacked in the past, but that was back when we were still using a site-building system that provided some back-end access. Those have been cleared up since, but we no longer use that software.

The next step was to log into the account at the host company to see if there was more information. But my login credentials returned another notice of account suspension, so my next move was to call the hosting company's support line.

Even though it was Martin Luther King Day, the drones at the hosting company were on the job. Perhaps because they were from Indian or Pakistan, as the accent of the fellow who answered suggested. Sadly, he reported that the account had been suspended because of non-payment. To pay the overdue amount would require a bank transfer, and since it was a banking holiday, that would have to wait until Tuesday morning.

In the meantime, the retiring accountant informed me later on Monday, the credit card the church had been using had been hacked, and it was cancelled by the bank without notifying the church that they had taken that action. And any correspondence from the web hosting company about an overdue payment was evidently missed.

So, first thing Tuesday, on the way to church to do the weekly offering count, I stopped by my bank and initiated a transfer from my personal account to cover the overdue amount. By the end of the day the money had left my account, so I expected that when I checked the church website this morning it would be back in action. But, no!

So I once again called the hosting company and the gentleman who answered said the whole process could take 3-5 days, and that it mostly had to do with banking procedures. It seems that when the money disappeared from my account, it began a very slow trek to the account of the hosting company.

Which means we're stuck until then with the sloppy "account suspended" greeting on the church website.

UPDATE: Turns out there was no fraud, it was an error by staff, which made it so much more complicated than it ever needed to be. Nuff said.

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