Mobile Ministry Magazine

Admission of sorts: running a magazine is hard, doing it with a website that needs constant attention too is even harder. I should have probanly thought about that a bit more when first launching MMM, but alas, one cannot turn back the clock to those decsions, we must grow and move on.

I spotted a few websites today via my RSS feed that might of some encouragement to you who are tech/ministry-based, or just wondering how the Body of Christ is adapting to this new media.

The first site is called The Godbit Project. From their Purpose+Vision page:
The purpose of this site is to help the Church catch up with the rest of the world in adherence to standards given by the World Wide Web Consortium, the governing body of best-practices on the Internet. The majority of Christian web design agencies are using outmoded methods of coding to create websites that the rest of the world would scoff at. Basically, they are stuck in the 1990’s. // This is so common in fact, that the term “Christian” when associated with the Internet has become synonymous with “sub-par...

You can read the rest of their purpose and vision. But it is clear that not all folks are sitting down when it comes to chatting up the matters of tech and integration with ministry. It's just not always a loud voice (some argue effectiveness is here though and I agree in some part, but numbers didn't matter to Israel or the NT church).

The other site is pretty well known in thet techie crowd (we need to work on a language to translate for non-techies); but not so much outside of it (its seems). The site is aclled SonSpring and I honestly found the site by a search from a co-worker who was looking for a solution for something web-dev related. Well me, I get to a site, I like the design/vision, I start looking around, and next then you know I am emailing the site owner as it was great to find a solid resource from someone (much better) skilled in the areas of user and experience design.

There is not much more else that I can say (as it has taken me nearly an hour to write this due to primary committments), but I did sense this morning that it was a good thing to be in this spot where we are not looking towards traditional means of communication and interaction to share the Gospel, create Godly communitities, and then also just be a bit holy and set apart from the normal course of things.

So does it mean going mobile in our offerning and focus - most def (just wait till we can get things honed on our end)

But it also means that the function of ministry is changing, and adapting to a culture that needs Christ in more ways than ever before. Ain't this a fun ride.