This is a networking site designed to facilitate communication, cooperation, and mission centered interaction among Seventh-day Adventist oriented gospel medical missionaries. The software functionality has features that are similar to those you'd expect to find on Facebook, plus a lot more. We've disabled the "like" feature to protect against the harmful effects it can have.

Features:

Activity or Activity Wall: this is a running stream of posts that is unique to each member. Some people call it their timeline. When you post something to your Activity Wall, others can see it when they view your wall. Things you post on your wall also show up on the walls of those other members with whom you have established a connection. Please stay mission focused.

Connections: you can request a connection with another member. When a connection is established, their posts will show up on your Activity Wall, and your posts will show up on theirs. This is like "friending" someone on Facebook.

Forums: You can access the main forum area from the site item of the main menu. In addition to this, each group has a menu option to access the groups own forum area. Every member (individual or organization) also has the ability to maintain their own forum accessed through their member profile area. Please use care to narrow your forum activity to the audience to which it is relevant. This will cut down on unnecessary distraction to other members who are not necessarily interested in every possible topic.

Groups: In addition to individual connections, members can join special interest groups. Each group has its own Activity Wall that can be viewed by accessing that group from the main menu (Community-Groups-All Categories) or (Community-Groups-All Groups). 

Group Categories: In order to maintain some organization to the many groups that can form, groups are divided into categories. To avoid confusion, please use care to select the best category when forming groups. It may require a bit of thought, but a new group's focus will fit best in one of the following:

• Educational: This Category is for groups that form because of a shared interest in teaching and training disciples for Christ and medical missionaries.  
• Minsterial: This category is for groups that form because of a shared interest in preaching and evangelism. 
• Medical: This category is for groups that form because of a shared interest in hygienic healthcare.
• City-Centric: This category is for groups that form because of a shared interest in warning the cities of Americal about judgment to prepare them for the second coming of Christ.
• Missionarial: This category is for groups that form because of a shared interest in the self-sacrificing, missionarial appoach to medical missionary work. 
• Provocative: This category is for groups that form because of a shared interest in the judment-hour, final warning aspect of medical missionary work.
• Advocative: This category is for groups that form because of a shared interest in the intercessory aspect of medical missionary work.
• Representative: This category is for groups that form because of a shared interest in Christian standards, values and Christian character development.
• Organized: This category is for groups that form for planning, organizing, and administration interests. 
• The Storm: This category is for groups that form because of a shared interest in the coming storm.
• Deliverables: This category is for groups that form because of a shared interest specific medical missionary evangelism activies.
• Onboarding: This category is for groups that form because of a shared interest in recruting and onboarding medical missionaries -and potential medical missionaries.
• Protocol Evangelism: This category is for groups that form because of a shared interest in full-program, field-expedition, Galilee Protocol style missionary work in large cities.
• Outpost Centers: This category is for groups that form because of a shared interest in rural outpost centers.
• City-Centers: This category is for groups that form because of a shared interest in medical missionary city centers.

Memberships: All memberships are provided free of charge. There are two types of memberships. One type is Individual, the other is Organization. Each type has several membership level possibilities:

• Individual:
  • Connect Port Membership: Connect Port members receive access to the Connect Port network, however, they are not voting members of the Galilee Protocol Medical Missionary Association; and they do not receive the rights and privileges of Association  membership.
  • Enrolled Medical Missionary: Enrolled members are regular voting members of the Association. At this level, each member will have successfully completed the orientation portion of the Galilee Protocol Core Curriculum and  successfully applied for membership. 
  • Certified Medical Missionary: Certified members are regular voting members of the Association. At this level, each member will have successfully completed the orientation and theory portions of the Galilee Protocol Core Curriculum and successfully applied for a membership upgrade. Other equivalent theory training may be acceptable, and is be considered on an individual basis. 
  • Registered Medical Missionary: Registered members are regular voting members of the Association. At this level, each member will have successfully completed the orientation, theory, and practicum portions of the Galilee Protocol Core Curriculum and successfully applied for a membership upgrade. Other equivalent practicum training may be acceptable, and is be considered on an individual basis. 
• Organization:
  • Connect Port Membership: Connect Port  members receive access to the Connect Port network, however, they are not members of the Galilee Protocol Medical Missionary Association; and they do not receive the rights and privileges regular organization membership.
  • Affiliated Organization: Organizations such as churches, schools, and independent ministries are affiliated members of the Galilee Protocol Medical Missionary Association when they sign an Affiliated Organization Statement of Cooperation. Galilee Protocal chapters and subsidiaries also register on Connect Port as Affiliated Organizations.   

Messaging: Connect Port has a messaging feature. This is similar to Facebook Messenger, however, one of the advantages to Connect Port is that we do not violate your personal privacy or exploit your membership for any reason.    

Moderators: Moderators are members with special abilities to monitor and disable members' Connect Port activity. We consider this to be an important service because we take our responsibility to keep the content of this service clean and appropriate. We also monitor content to be sure content stays mission specific. Disabling posts or memberships is something that moderators do reluctantly and in most cases they will prefer to address issues through coaching and dialog if the circumstance allow. Please don't be easily offended. Anyone who participates in a way that distracts or lowers our high standards invites a moderator's contact. Be happy they care enough to speak up.

Privacy, Safety, Distractions: The primary benefit to a limited networking site such as Connect Port is that the audience in narrowed to a special interest group. This improves privacy to some extent, as will as protecting members from the unsafe and distracting content found on general purpose sites. We do not do advertising for the general public and are particular about the products and services that members promote to other members. Connect Port is not politicly correct; we are not shy about our commitment to Bible started relating to the social issues we face today.

InfoBase: Connect Port provides access to the Galilee Protocol InfoBase. This is a user-maintained wikipedia-stye information system for all-things medical missionary.

Training: Connect Port provides access to missionarytrainme.org. This Galilee Protocol site provides online training to become an Enrolled Medical Missionary, Certified Medical Missionary, or Registered Medical Missionary. It uses your same Connect Port login crudentials. 

Missionary Fundraising: Connect Port provides access to missionaryfundme.org. This Galilee Protocol site facilitates fundraing for missionaries and ministries you care about. It uses your same Connect Port login crudentials. 

Project Management: Connect Port has the capability to provide project management functionality for medical missionary relevant projects. Please contact us about using this feature. We open this feature for approve projects on an as-needed basis. 

Sharing: Each member has a wide range of available sharing options in their Profile Area. In addition to their Activity Wall, they can run their own blogs, forums, maintain a collection of articles, and share files and photos. Do not upload any content that is inappropriate to a family-oriented Christian ministry site. We also require that all content be mission-specific and mission oriented. Please do not consumes Connect Port resources or distract Connect Port members with general interest content that would be more appropriate on Facebook or YouTube.