Do you love digital media? Are you interested in missions? I happen to think both are rather keen, which is why I’m reposting this story from Mission Network News:
New ministry fields are opening faster than Audio Scripture Ministries can respond.
ASM’s Tom Dudenhofer says they’re in desperate need of media-technologies people with a [...]

A really inspiring post from Letters from Kamp Krusty:
A few years later, he went back to India. Kumar took his vacation from Sun [Microsystems], and headed over with no plan. He just went door-to-door, and told people about Jesus.
The first day, 45 people decided to become Jesus-followers. How’d THAT happen?
“I don’t know. [...]

USA Today has a piece about how the weakening value of the US dollar is affecting missionaries abroad. While some exporters can thrive in these economic conditions, it’s not good news for missionaries and relief organizations:
It takes $1.47 to match a euro — a loss of more than 35% in buying power [compared to 2002]. [...]

Child sponsorship programs have been in place for a while now. So I imagine many of those children are now adults and have stories to tell about their experiences as a sponsored child. Our family has sponsored children for years, but we’ve never heard follow up stories.
Enter Michelle Tolentino, a former Compassion sponsored child. She [...]

Pastor Kevin Bruursema of New Life Community Church in Chicago wrote on his blog, Caffeine, please, last week about how Chicago is becoming dechurched. Around his church he has witnessed churches closing and the buildings are becoming places like climbing walls and single-family homes.I know of 9 former church buildings in my informal, accidental [...]

Here are some statistics that John Piper cited from David Earley in a recent sermon:
1. There are 195 million non-churched people in America, making America one of the top four largest “unchurched” nations in the world.
2. In spite of the rise of mega-churches, no county in America has a greater church population than it did [...]

The video below is of Bono accepting the honorary Chairman’s Award at the NAACP Awards last Spring. He finishes an inspiring acceptance speech with as much fire and passion as any African-American preacher.
Preach it!

Evangelical groups are lending their support to an interdenominational code of conduct for religious conversions:
The code aims to ease tensions with Muslims, Hindus and other religious groups that fear losing adherents and resort to punishments as extreme as imprisonment and even death for converts from their faith and foreign missionaries. [...]
[The World Council of Churches] [...]

This is amazing, if true:
Ten thousand Chinese become Christians each day, according to a stunning report by the National Catholic Reporter’s veteran correspondent John Allen, and 200 million Chinese may comprise the world’s largest concentration of Christians by mid-century, and the largest missionary force in history.
The piece above seems a bit… over-enthusiastic on certain points, [...]

It may not be as exotic as a mission trip to a faraway corner of the globe, but more and more evangelists are venturing into the uncharted depths of Second Life and other online games. A recent piece in a Jesuit journal has brought new attention to the phenomenon of online-game evangelism:
Father Spadaro urges Catholics [...]