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Google Goggles

Sus Schmitt

If you have a mobile phone, you might be interested in downloading the free Google Goggles app, especially (but not necessarily) if you do a lot of traveling. This mobile app allows you to do searches with images.   You take a photo of something and then search: in order to locate information about a book on the internet to identify a landmark to translate an item on a menu to identify products and artwork You can also take a photo of a business card and move the information to the contact list on your phone. How are you using Google … Continue reading Google Goggles

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Using Technology in Bible Study

Sus Schmitt

I’m not writing much today because I hope this video inspires you to consider how you might do something similar in your ministry.  So, I’m hoping YOU will write and let me know: if you are doing something similar or if this video  gets you thinking of something you might like to try with Facebook, Twitter, mobile phones, or some other technology. This additional video testimony for YouVersion is similar, but slightly different, too. Related Posts: Online Bibles Bible Reading Plans Help Me Stay on Track from Seabourn.org Continue reading Using Technology in Bible Study

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Social Media and Your Ministry

Sus Schmitt

It’s important for all of us to understand the incredible impact of social media on our lives and on our culture.

What is your “take away” from this video? For me, I’m remembering my first website was a static place where others could go for information. Now, my posts go to my potential readers instead of them going to the posts and … I hear from them even within seconds sometimes!

Have you looked seriously at your ministry through the lens of social networking? Are you and your disciples integrating your face-to-face connections with your virtual connections? Who are you trying to reach and what is the best way to reach them? Continue reading Social Media and Your Ministry

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Redeeming Social Media by John Piper

Sus Schmitt

Have you ever been in a discussion about the value of social media? Here’s what John Piper has to say:

“I see two kinds of response to social Internet media …

“One says: These media tend to shorten attention spans, weaken discursive reasoning, lure people away from Scripture and prayer, disembody relationships, feed the fires of narcissism, cater to the craving for attention, fill the world with drivel, shrink the soul’s capacity for greatness, and make us second-handers who comment on life when we ought to be living it. So boycott them and write books (not blogs) about the problem.

“The other response says: Yes, … but…, try to fill these media with as much provocative, reasonable, Bible-saturated, prayerful, relational, Christ-exalting, truth-driven, serious, creative pointers to true greatness as you can.”

I’m hoping you’ll take the time to read the rest of John Piper’s post on why Christians should take their message to all sorts of media. At least follow the link so you can read his example of a creative Tweet poem. Continue reading Redeeming Social Media by John Piper

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Celebrating One Year of e4e

Sus Schmitt

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the eQuipping for eMinistry blog. Every six months I like to publicly acknowledge those who have contributed to this ministry for the past six months. THANK YOU To my Sovereign Lord, Jesus Christ, for His guidance and direction and for giving me a passion I can pursue to His glory. To my husband, Mike, for encouraging me to “sow resources for women so they might enhance their ministries through technology.” To Judy Douglass for encouraging me to be all God has designed me to be. To the guest authors who have helped post … Continue reading Celebrating One Year of e4e