Just wanted to point out what God is doing with a handful of bloggers. I’ve mentioned her before, but Anne Jackson (flowerdust.net) and a few other awesome bloggers (including musician Shaun Groves) are merging their blogging skills, Jesus, and the people of Uganda in a week, for a week. All of them will be heading off to Uganda, to share Christ — not only to the people there, but to the people all over the world who happen to run across their blogs.
This is something I would love to do during my mission trips, but for security reasons, cannot. So, much prayer goes out to the fifteen history makers - for security, health, focus, and the continued reminder to be open, honest, and willing vessels for Christ’s love to really shine in Uganda.
Keep up with Anne as she starts her journey February 10th. You can also check out the other bloggers listed on her site.
I read a few dystopian novels in high school, like Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World, so there is part of me that really hesitates when it comes to technology. I know, it’s strange, my job totally depends on it. To be honest, sometimes I see it more of a distraction from things that “really matter.”
However, I believe specific things happen at specific times, so it’s no mistake I am living right now, during the “Internet Age.” And I’m starting to learn that the church can totally embrace technology which is such a huge communicating tool. HUGE. I imagine it would boggle apostle Paul’s mind that we can shoot an e-mail halfway across the world in a minute and listen to sermons from other churches within a few clicks. To reach more people? Heck yeah, I think he’d do it.
Anyway, there are a few blogs I keep up with that have this feeling of community. These blogs see the advantages and how technology can be used for the advancement of the Kingdom. Specifically, I just wanted to point out the prayer request post at flowerdust.net that received a lot of responses. Anne, the blogger, understands communicating and it has been interesting to see her readers respond to this post and other posts. In fact, she’s jumping into it and will be working at lifechurch.tv which I need to check out in my spare time.
Even though I’ve never met her, her and other bloggers have got me thinking technology doesn’t have to be the big, hairy, distracting monster. In fact, I may just become best friends with this “monster.”
