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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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Are We Already Cyborgs?

Sus Schmitt

Amber Case, a cyborg anthropologist, makes some interesting observations about our high-tech lifestyle.  She has a different perspective on social networking that I think you’ll appreciate. Here’s the definition of cyborg that she uses: an organism “to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to new environments.”  (Don’t worry, her talk isn’t all technobabble.) So, after listening to her eight-minute talk, jump into the “technosocial wormhole” and post your comments! NOTE: You can learn more about the image of the internet she uses near the end of her talk. Continue reading Are We Already Cyborgs?

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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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Safe for the Little Eyes and Ears

Sus Schmitt

Surrounded by shelves of books, three children were sitting quietly on chairs in the children’s section of our branch library, watching two others play a game on a computer. That grieved me because our family enjoyed reading a lot of library books (and we still do).
Chuck Colson published a review in September, This is My Father’s Digital World, of a short video: God’s Technology: Training Our Children to Use Technology to God’s Glory by seminary professor Dr. David Murray.
Chuck Colson also recommends Safe Eyes, a parental control software. We never used any software to protect our children, so please weigh in here if you have some products to recommend.
What do you do to protect your family from possible internet abuses? From spending too much time texting, on Facebook, with video games?
Continue reading Safe for the Little Eyes and Ears

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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)