Transforming the World with a Video Camera

    Technology on mis­sion The Hawkins fam­ily is mak­ing rip­ples all over the world from their home base in south Texas. John and Joann Hawkins joined World Indigenous Missions in 1990 and worked as church planters in Mexico for thir­teen years. In 2004, they returned to the United States and began work­ing with Brick […]

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, […]