Mobile Ministry Magazine

Where Does MMM Sit
I was just reading my RSS feeds, I know its late and I should be in bed resting my sick body, and I saw a few of the mobile sites out there mentioning a new site by the W3C (the folks who do web standards like HTML, wht browsers should read, etc.) called Planet Mobile. And while I am quite happy that the major standards body has gone out to make an effort to bring together a ton of the mobile content around the web, I sit and wonder if MMM really fits into their mobile of what the mobile web is about.

MMM is one part mobile tech, yes. Here we talk aboutu variious issues relating to using mobile devices to solve problems that relate to ministry and mission. To that end, one can argue that we are very much mobile. However, I don't see MMM in the same class as those other sites. Whereas many of the mobile sites that I have read are about mobile tech, they speak about it from a tech-first perspective. Meaning, they talk about the tech and then how to fit life within it. At MMM we try to talk about life and tech and how the two fit together within the context of tech being an enabler, not a progenor. Somewhat weird view I know, but think of it like this: some people prefer peanut butter and jelly served just with creamy and grape. MMM is like the straberry and crunchy cut into four squares version. Still mobile tech, but cut differently (becasue of Christ).

That's the other major difference. I haven't seen so much mobile tech and mobile web address issues relating to actually solving problems faced in various arenas. If I am in the UK, I don't want to just hear that mobile tech means I get a better browser, I want to hear that a better browser means that I can surf safer becasuse banks are going to mobile payment systems. If I am in the US, I am not just wanting to hear about ringtones, but I want to hear how to share them without using a computer or semi-expensive portal system. MMM seeks to address the problem of relating to community because community has no touch to the outside world. By using mobile tech, we not just connect with the outside world, but have a chance to educated and share it with others. Meeting their needs (education, food etc.) and thereby showing them Christ.

So yea, we are on this mobile planet, just walking at a different pace while speaking the same message that mobile is here, but adding that mobile with Christ will change more than what we communicate, it will change how we love each other in the mist of that communicating.
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