Names are powerful, personal, emotional. Don’t believe me? Think about how you feel when someone butchers your name. It happens all the time. For some reason, it sticks in my brain, a memory from high school. I was at a music competition. Yes, I was in band in high school. You aren’t surprised are you? I…
I am currently reading Moisés NaÃm’s, The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be. It may seem little far from my normal reading list but this book is essential reading for those who want to understand the rapid and transformative shifts that are happening in the…
At the risk of putting myself out of a job, I still have to tell you, technology is not going to grow your church… all by itself. You still have to tell people about Jesus. That doesn’t mean that technology doesn’t have an essential role to play for the modern disciple. My mission is…
This week a colleague of mine shared a fantastic post by Carey Niewhof entitled, “5 Disruptive Trends That Will Rule 2016.” It is a great piece, if you get nothing else out of my post, go read his. I was really struck by the first trend he shared, “Church online will become an advance, not…
Whether or not you are one to make New Year’s resolutions, the end of the year is a good time to take stock and think about the year to come. For church folks (and my non-profit friends,) this might be a good moment to think about some plans for 2016 in the area of technology….
Sharing your church services online is more affordable than ever. I believe that more churches should be taking advantage of this technology to reach the mission field and to continue the development of discipleship among a more mobile and immobile population. I wrote in depth about this in my post, Technology and Pastoral Care, Part…
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As part of the plan that created the new RÃo Texas Annual Conference, our annual conference committed to ensuring that all of our local churches have the required tools and infrastructure to stay connected to the conference and their mission field. The unification plan called for all churches to eventually have the internet connection and…
The Rio Texas Annual Conference has made it a priority to use video conferencing to facilitate our work together. This annual conference covers an immense geographic area. Meeting to do our important mutual work is expensive in time and money. As I have written before, there is great value in meeting face to face. However,…
This post is part four of an ever-growing series on Technology and Pastoral Care. If you are just joining us, you may want to go back to the beginning. In my last post, I wrote about how live streaming worship services can be an important part of our life of prayer and mutual support. With the…
I wrote in my last post about the new opportunities and challenges we face caring for one another as Christians in this new digital age. The post mostly focused on Facebook and how it is changing the landscape of how we hear and share prayer concerns. Now, I want to look at some of the…
