This month’s featured blogs share a ministry theme.

• Check out Andrea Buczynski’s brand-new blog, AB Reflections.  Her posts are thoughtful and inspiring.
• My Heart for the City – thoughts on this generation of city-changers and world-shakers.
• Responding to God – students respond to God’s truth in their lives. Here is what a few of them said as students texted in their response to “God is Greater Than…”
• Online Times – a challenge to consider how you spend your time online and also a recommendation for a daily Bible reading blog written by two women.
• Love Me If…? campaign in Hong Kong  this month
• Why Ministry? – 12 Scriptures to help you persevere in ministry

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Why are all of these people smiling so big? 

Last week 3 of our teammates (see Mark, Kay and Karin below) traveled to Ghana and Kenya to “train the trainers” in the launch of a mobile phone based Bible leadership project.

The smiling gentlemen you see here are holding their training certificates after mastering the skills needed to install specific Bible software on mobile phones and administrate Bible leadership courses for hundreds of eager students in their own countries.

Yesterday we showed you a video presenting a quick overview of the project – called “Pastors Training in Leadership (PTL)”

Purpose of PTL:

Pastors Training in Leadership (PTL) is a three level series of courses on a mobile phone designed to equip pastors for church planting. Created by the Nairobi International School of Theology in Nairobi, Kenya, these courses provide theological training for pastors and lay church leaders.  Church growth in this area of Africa is happening at an exponential rate – and there is a drastic short s...

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Recent quote:

“This is a tool that will help me raise an army from all across the nation; an army of like-minded people who will take the gospel to the rest of the world. In our effort to mobilize the mobilizers, we now have a simple tool that gives us that platform and a launchpad to missions.” – Abel Zulu, lay church leader in Zambia

We implore you to watch this video describing one of the projects our team is involved with – representing several evangelical groups in Africa and Orlando.

Emmanuel is a pastor and seminary professor in Kenya.  He faces a difficult challenge – one which most pastors in America would love to have!  With more than 20,000 new churches in his part of the world, Emmanuel’s seminary in Kenya cannot effectively equip all the pastors needed to lead these new churches.

Brad is a lay pastor who lives in a rural environment, similar to most of the lay pastors who need this training. He lives in neighboring Tanzania, and it takes him an hour to drive from the closest paved road to h...

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This month’s selection of blog posts look ahead to the new year:

• Tea Cups Full of Grace – Ashley looks back at her imaginary life on a foreign field and what God did in reality.
• Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates: a reading plan to cover 365 key Bible chapters in a year.
• Shifts in Focus in the Spring - How one Cru team changed their spring focus to be ready for freshmen in the fall.
• A Clean Slate and Forgiveness - a challenge to live each day aware of His incredible forgiveness.
• Make Things Happen – Help for those resolutions you’ve made for next year.
• All Things New – As we look at the future, remember we are new in Christ.
• Consider learning and practicing Biblical thinking by following Thinking Christian.
• Resolutions by Leaha

This photo of fireworks in Austin, Texas, is available on Wikimedia Commons.

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16 + 1 = 17.  I am one of the 17.  Are you?

By far, the YouVersion Holy Bible App was my favorite, most frequently used “app” on my mobile devices in 2011.  Most likely, it will be my most frequently used app in 2012 too.

Watch this great video from YouVersion to learn more:

YouVersion.com offers a free Bible reading app for most smartphones. Read the Bible in your own language, using a Bible reading plan or even listen to the Bible as it is read to you.  Since I rarely go anywhere without my mobile phone these days, YouVersion has made my phone my “first stop” in connecting with The Word.  Honestly, it has helped me read the Bible more regularly than ever before.

As of late last year, about 1 in every 17 iPhone and Android owners had installed a copy of the Bible app on their phones.  That’s well over 30 MILLION people worldwide.  30 Million!!  And millions more are reading the Bible on their computer via YouVersion.com – the web site version of the app.  (No, you don’t have to own an iPhone or...

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