Mobile Ministry Magazine

Via IntoMobile

Here are my five (as posted on Twitter a few days ago). Items are posted with a link to the associated tweet so that you could either respond here or there.

1. Mobile will be the primary avenue for telling the church's story over the next 10yrs (tweet)
2. Mobile increases the church's need to have cross-functional knowledge of culture and context (tweet)
3. Censorship and copyright will drive mobile sharing of religious texts to innovative solutions (tweet)
4. Mobile will be vilified by a significant generation of traditionally-minded church and lay leaders (tweet)
5. Education + genuine faith + mobile = education and community redefined (L. Amer India, & Africa)(tweet)

Ok folks, given the several trends spoken, as well as the MMM-5, do you have any thoughts on these - especially in terms of what you are seeing in the places you are in. Remember, one of the characteristics of mobile is that its personal and hyper-local. Where is this media going, and how do we steer it within the context of it intersection with faith? Because what we experience as tech in the Body, will not be the same experience of those considered youth now.

*The hashtag in the title is deliberate as I'd like to see this link automatically when this posts to Twitter.

Labels: innovation, mobility, statistics, tech

Last week, Tomi Ahonen published a pretty extensive post detailing the regional breakdown of mobile across industralized and developing nations. Lots of number, long post, but best quoted piece is:

...By every measure, mobile is the giant, the only giant, and the other technologies are the lilliputs. If you intend to communicate with prospective customers in the Developing World today, then you cannot think of mobile as the 'fourth screen' and consider possibly including it in your communication mix, as we still can think in the Industrialized World, as a luxury today. No, in the Developing World mobile is the first screen - and obviously, for as many as 1.8 billion people - one quarter of the planet - it is the ONLY screen. These 1.8 billion people do not have a PC, not a TV, not even FM radio, but they have a live, active mobile phone account. Out of all 3 billion people in the Developing World who have some kind of connection, a massive 60% have no other way to connect, than their mobile phone...

Yep, just like everything else in the Body, you have to have the same perspective of the people that you are speaking to in order to have a ministry that walks in step with their heart's condition (1 Cor. 12-14).

So read the post, then just make sure that you are walking in the regional and cultural understanding of these mobile-booming times.

Labels: mobile, mobility, statistics

Reposting this video that I saw at Swerve and a few other places. Something to think about in light of that intersection of faith and technology.

Labels: future, statistics, Video