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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Find ideas for evangelism and discipleship for your mobile phone. (This list was originally written before tablets became so popular, so many of these ideas would also work on your iPad or Kindle Fire.)

I’m re-posting this with permission from the original author.   I tried to update as much of the information as I could since technology changes rapidly, but please comment if any of these ideas could be better presented.  What ideas have you tried?

With Basic Cellphones:

• Audio
  • Interactive Voice Response (IVR), for example:
    • Telemensahe
  • Text messaging
  • sending out SMSs with short devotionals, and asking people to forward them to their friends
  • 4 Spiritual Laws by text message
  • Discipleship Message Subscription, for example:
    • www.2cast.net

• Prayer request distribution using:
  • Text messages
  • Facebook groups
  • Twitter

• Browsing to Christian websites, for example:
  • www.everystudent.com/mobi
  • www.jesus2020.mobi

• Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) advertising
  • Advertise ...

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A great photo attracts readers to read your blog post, but how do you get them to come visit you and engage in conversation in the first place?

One of the best ways to find readers is to write on the subjects that everyone is talking about currently.

As I write this post, popular topics are related to Hurricane Irene, the U. S. Open, and Gadhafi.   (As you know, an earthquake and a hurricane hit the East Coast this past week.  Did you turn this topic into a spiritual conversation on your blog, on Facebook, or on Twitter?)

If you don’t know what topics are popular, go to:

• Google Trends to discover what the current top Google searches are.
• Nibbo  for trending topics on Google, Bing, Twitter, and more (try the options and search specific languages and countries, too.)
• What the Trend shows what’s trending on Twitter and why.  You can  narrow the trends down to specific countries and cities.  They’ll also send trend alerts to you through Twitter and / or to your Facebook news feed if ...

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A great photo attracts readers to read your blog post, but how do you get them to come visit you and engage in conversation in the first place?

One of the best ways to find readers is to write on the subjects that everyone is talking about currently.

As I write this post, popular topics are related to Hurricane Irene, the U. S. Open, and Gadhafi.   (As you know, an earthquake and a hurricane hit the East Coast this past week.  Did you turn this topic into a spiritual conversation on your blog, on Facebook, or on Twitter?)

If you don’t know what topics are popular, go to:

• Google Trends to discover what the current top Google searches are.
• Nibbo  for trending topics on Google, Bing, Twitter, and more (try the options and search specific languages and countries, too.)
• What the Trend shows what’s trending on Twitter and why.  You can  narrow the trends down to specific countries and cities.  They’ll also send trend alerts to you through Twitter and / or to your Facebook news feed if ...

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A fellow-worker in an African country is successfully using text messaging (SMS) for ministry.  Here’s the key points of his work:

• He’s always had a big heart for cellphone and radio ministry.
• His deep study of the word of God gives him words to share via SMS.
• He has his own manual phone book which holds about 1000 contacts and a database for his SMS.
• He does his texting ministry every Sunday, spending about seven hours and $80 on the ministry each week.
• He’s funded by friends and by people who receive texts from him; the rest he covers out of his own funds.
• He sends different categories of SMS to different groups of people.
• One woman was saved from committing suicide; she was just about to kill herself when she received a godly, loving message that comforted her.
• He has seventy students working with him at the local university.
• He sends messages to about 1000 people and is seeing about 10,000 people being influenced because the text usually circulates from one friend to another.  Some people in ...

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