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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I’m sure you’ve heard the internet compared to the Roman Road of New Testament times.  Also, English might be compared to the Greek of New Testament times (we have an advantage with online translators, too, like Babel Fish). God used this Roman technology and a common language to advance the Gospel. Increasingly, the internet is where people go with their questions about God. (You might want to take two minutes to watch Kimberly’s story to see our model of win-build-send in one young women’s life.)

Of course, all true believers desire to glorify God and love people into His kingdom. (That’s why you’re reading this post, isn’t it?) Have you asked yourself what are you doing now or what could you prayerfully consider learning so you are ministering to more people more effectively using the tech tools available to you? (According to the video, all the people of the world may have access to the internet by 2015.)

• Do you want to find ways to share your faith with your Facebook friends?
• Have you considered st...

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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

With Feature Phones

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

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

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About twenty staff gathered around a table for an hour at CSU2011 to discuss evangelistic blogging.  Of course, the interest was high and therefore I wanted to somehow continue the discussion online.  So, I created a Facebook group devoted to blogging for ministry which I hope will:

• help CCC staff and friends with blogging as a ministry, and
• help us know each other and our blogs.

(We may end up with more or better ways to do this.  Let me know if using Facebook is a problem for you.)

This “secure” group is for Campus Crusade for Christ staff and friends who already blog for ministry or want to learn how.  We can learn from each other about how we disciple believers, connect with unbelievers and/or with our supporters.  It’s not completely “secure” because it’s on Facebook’s servers, but I created it as an invitation-only group so only the “e4e blogging for ministry” group can see what we are discussing.

This week we have a discussion about  optimizing your “About Page”.  Follow the link if you’...

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Professor Sugata Mitra is an Indian academic who observed Indian slum children figure out computers for themselves.  Watch his story in this TED lecture. (Read more on Professor Mitra and his work.)

Children are “wired” by God to learn.  What will it be like when affordable tablets are available to include even many relatively poor children globally in basic and higher education?

The Mission Challenge

Professor Mitra’s experiments should cause those of us in missions to be willing to re-think what we could be doing.  After watching the video, should we make some major paradigm shifts ?  Here’s some thoughts I had.  Please share yours.

• The children didn’t need to be trained how to use the technology.
• The children did well even with a language barrier and with difficult subjects.
• Repeatedly, Professor Mitra gave absolutely no instructions.
• The children learned in groups.
• They were positively reinforced, using Skype, by British grandmothers!
• We already work in schools.
• We already have The Story of ...

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