Don’t Underestimate the Power of Email

Email is such a nor­mal part of the aver­age person’s life that we tend to for­get about its strate­gic value. As a mis­sion­ary, you may be stay­ing busy try­ing to keep up with the most cutting-edge meth­ods of com­mu­ni­ca­tion such as social media, SMS, and maybe even those QR code thingys. But among all these new […]

Don’t Use the Pony Express to Mail Your Prayer Letter

Communication has changed dras­ti­cally. The thought of a horse and rider deliv­er­ing my per­sonal mes­sages seems like a thing of the ancient past, but in real­ity, it was only 150 years ago that peo­ple in the Wild West were using the Pony Express. I have to admit, the Pony Express sounds roman­tic, but I’m very glad to have Google Chat instead (one sec­ond vs. ten days). This is a per­fect exam­ple, albeit an extreme one, of just how dra­mat­i­cally things have

Watch Out, Social Web! Here Comes WIM!

For the past sev­eral months, a few of us on the WIM staff have been brain­storm­ing, re-thinking, dream­ing and learn­ing. Our main ques­tion has been: “How can we uti­lize tech­nol­ogy for the king­dom of God?” I had been work­ing on a new web­site for WIM for months already, but a shift hap­pened when Andy Toth, […]