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Two Kindles and the Earthquake in Japan (Guest Post)

Sus Schmitt

While taxiing to the end of the runway, maybe five minutes before full power would be applied and we would take off, the huge 747 began bouncing up and down, the wings flapping. It wasn’t nearly as bad as some mid-air turbulence I’ve experienced, but we weren’t in the air! There isn’t supposed to be turbulence on the ground!
When the pilot came over the loudspeaker he said, “Folks, we’re having an earthquake.”
People around us were using their mobile phones to check news reports.
Our mobile phones on the T-Mobile system (GSM system) don’t work on Japan’s cellular system. But Kay and I each have an Amazon Kindle with 3G world cell phone service for downloading books and also with very rudimentary web browsers

(How did Keith and Kay make it safely back to the States? Read more…) Continue reading Two Kindles and the Earthquake in Japan (Guest Post)

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Mobilizing Prayer Online for Lent

Sus Schmitt

If you’re looking for a good way to mobilize prayer, check out PrayEurope’s 40 days of prayer for Europe, which starts today, Ash Wednesday, and goes throughout Lent.  Each day, PrayEurope will have prayer requests featuring one of Europe’s 40 countries.  Today starts with Albania. After praying, you can check off that you prayed. You can sign up for an email reminder. You can get prayer requests through following them on Facebook… And on Twitter. Continue reading Mobilizing Prayer Online for Lent

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Adorn Your Facebook Profile

Sus Schmitt

Our hearts hunger for something we can sink our teeth into – a good story, the latest relationship status, or the most recently posted pictures.  Our hearts hunger so much that we become like wandering nomads drifting across Facebook seeking fulfillment. But what if Facebook offered a different kind of status to update each time we logged in?  Instead of posing the question, What’s on your mind? What if Facebook asked, What’s in your heart? Would we type discontentment, idolatry, satisfaction, joy? Since we all search for significant connection and community in this life, Facebook seems like a natural tool … Continue reading Adorn Your Facebook Profile

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Are You Easy to Find on Facebook?

Sus Schmitt

Would you like a unique Facebook address, but the URL for your Facebook Profile looks like this? facebook.com/profile.php?id=(random number) Would you like it to be: facebook.com/(your name)? You should be able to go to http://www.facebook.com/username/ to create a unique URL for your profile. However, if your name is very common, Suzie Q, for instance, you may have to settle for a name like SuzieQ2. If you have a fan page, you can also have a unique URL after you have twenty-five fans for your page. I was able to do this for eQuipping for eMinistry using http://www.facebook.com/eQuipping4eMinistry (While you’re at … Continue reading Are You Easy to Find on Facebook?

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How to Use Facebook and the Internet to Reach People for Christ (Guest Post)

Sus Schmitt

College students spend an average of five hours a day online. So, when it comes to building spiritual movements with students, everyone knows that online is important.

Our student-led leader for West Africa created training in how to use EveryStudent.com, how to respond to emails and how to use EveryStudent.com on campus, on Facebook, etc. If my math is right, he’s trained about 450 students throughout Ghana and Nigeria in the last nine months, then in Ethiopia and Kenya. Liberia is next.

You can use the same simple ideas to enhance, and even accelerate, your individual or team ministry using the internet. Sign up to receive “How to Talk about God,” a special weekly email series from EveryStudent.com to help you confidently use the internet in your ministry.

Use the great articles on EveryStudent.com and the free email series. Try these ideas for yourself and with your ministry team and then comment here to encourage others to try internet ministry! Continue reading How to Use Facebook and the Internet to Reach People for Christ (Guest Post)

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Facebook Friends around the World

Sus Schmitt

Taking a sample of ten million pairs of friends, an engineering intern at Facebook created this data map to show which cities had a lot of friendships between them. (Read how he did it.)

Not surprisingly, you can even detect some political borders in the data. Logically, many people would have most friends within their country. I also noticed a lot of connections between North and South America and also between Europe and North Africa, roughly from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Gulf of Tunis. Iceland, Russia, and other countries don’t appear (as a country shape) in the data map, but it’s possible to see where Reykjavik, Iceland, and Moscow, Russia, are located.

I’m a visual learner and love data, so I found this data map fascinating. What does this image tell you? Continue reading Facebook Friends around the World