Mobile Ministry Magazine

After yesterday's posting of Jonathan's interview, a few comments came in talking about how neat it is on what Jonathan is doing with Earthcomber. The following email was probably the best of the lot from the founder of Earthcomber, Jim Brady:

I just wanted to add to Jonathan's wonderful experience an invitation for any and all places of worship to use Earthcomber to reach out to travelers, visitors and people new to their area. Earthcomber finds handy things like eateries and ATMS, true enough. But my intention overall is that Earthcomber can be a tool, a mobile spotting network, for getting people of like mind together in their most passionate pursuits. To that end, any member of any church may "adopt" their church listing in Earthcomber. Right now, we loaded every place of worship that was charted in the US Geological Survey. However, we have only their names and the geocoordinates, no further info. Earthcomber has a friendly web interface that allows the proprietor of a location - in this case, could be the pastor or just a web-comfy member - to put in the address, hours of services, contacts, welcome msg for visitors. This should be a good outreach tool, whereby potential new members or visitors can connect by combing for keywords like "Baptist" or "Methodist" or "interfaith" or "Catholic" - you get the idea. All they need is a mobile phone or PDA. Needless to say, there's no cost or fees (commercial enterprises pay for their listings; non-profits don't.)

So how does one get plugged into this aspect of Earthcomber, simply send an email to churches at earthcomber dot com and they will be able to set you up from there.