Mobile Ministry Magazine

Some weeks ago, and probably even as this post is going up, the MMM account was sent two emails, one was from a pastor in India, the other from one in Central Africa. Both looking for something that presents me with a significant challenge - they asked for someone to come teach them utilizing the mobile and biblical know-how that they have seen on these pages.

Normally speaking, emails of this sort come in and I'm quick to pray (read: forget) about them. But these two have stayed in the inbox, staring at me for a number of days. And I'm challenged. Challenged because for once, I'm not sure how to respond.

Yes, there's the literal going overseas and talking with people I've never met (but isn't that was a missionary does). Then there's also the challenge. Does MMM speak anything of relevance to those audiences that are already mobile and just looking to sharpen their edges towards what God has called them to do - connect, share, teach, and build? I don't know. And the challenge in front of me in this keeps me totally still.

And then I read this piece over at TechCrunch (Crossing the Digital Divide, Rwanda Style), and I start to see yet another challenge. That the comforts of the misplaced views of mobile-life here in the states has dulled my abilities to see what is happening in other places. I mean, this is the reality of it. Else reading this wouldn't be challenging me in the same wise that the OLPC challenge did for me the past two years.

God, I wish that I could just pick up from the day-gig, go to these places, serve Christ, and learn from people who are doing this a whole lot better than I am currently. Though God, I'm challenged with the thought that presented with the means to go, that I'll shrek back, fearful that I've been talking here a whole long time and don't really know what I'm talking about.

To this I'm challenged, to be really ministring via these mobiles, not just in those places that are comfortable.

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