Mobile Ministry Magazine

I am sitting here at work right now and I have to say that I don't really care for it too much. Yes, this is the job that pays the bills and fills my stomach, but I cannot stand just being in front of the computer and so little interaction with folks. I like going and doing training and tech support calls. Those interactions keep me lively and thinking.

And that is why I have seen the place for mobile computers in ministry as more of an intent of using a computer of any kind. For example, with my Treo I can write articles, read and reply to nearly all my email, surf the web, post here and on my personal site, and even play a game or two...while able to take and make phone calls. Its a nice means of managing my computer usage. And with some things more or less automatic, like getting email, I can take the "task" out of getting email and spend that thought-cycle on something else.

But the other reason I like my Treo is that it pushes me into fellowship. I go to bible studies and the Treo is a means to document the contact info of new people, but most of the time is spent in convo. I have a MMM meeting and while we talk tech and take views of different things, we talk more than we sit infront of a light-box and that makes for personal connections that go beyond what can be typed or iconized (smileys).

I do admit, I am probably motivated by the fact that I think that mobile computers CAN do everything (with a few compromises here and there). And hearing how people have use simple mobile phones to spark cultural movements just amazes me even the more. But with this walk, and this ministry, its about being in the lives of others. And no matter what the technology or none, if Christ cannot be preached, His love cannot be felt, His Word being...well, His Word; then its all for naught.

How do you feel about this? I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts.