“I’ve been having a great time here giving out the JESUS film on microSD cards. So much fun watching people light up when I give them a 2GB microSD card loaded with media in their heart language. The following stories are some of my experiences. Once, I was out in kind of a touristy crafts … Read more
I love farm animals. There are sheep, goats, horses, and cows in my area (North Africa), and quite a few of each in my neighborhood. It’s not like an American town or city! I try to go jogging every day I can, and there are trees with big leaves along the way that the sheep … Read more
What are these resources? DBS MP3s in the Arabic people speak. These MP3s were originally made to help English speakers from the West start new Discovery Bible Study (DBS) groups in the Levant. We were finding that the foreign worker would oftentimes have to be the one to read the Bible in Arabic, and that … Read more
Keith Williams from Mobile Advance has done an extraordinary job in putting together a very simple tool to help you assess the digital technology available and being used in your country. Keith did a workshop on this at our 2015 consultation in Holland. Download the free assessment by clicking the button below. With this tool … Read more
Last year I got a new mobile phone. It is small and stylish, but it can do a lot of amazing things! In any given day, I use my mobile to phone my friends, send and receive numerous text messages in English and Arabic, take pictures, and even record my Arabic friends singing or reciting … Read more
BibleTransmission has been surprised over and over with the great responses from the African nations for the Gospel on mobile. The responses to ad campaigns in the central and northern regions have proved that Africa is ripe for hearing the Gospel today more than any other continent. One might think that the poorer nations would … Read more
“Quick,” said “Mary” (pseudonym), on our way to the prayer meeting, “I must buy some phone credit.” So we stopped, somewhere I’d never stopped before. As she chatted to the guy to buy the credit I took a look to see what else they had in the shop. They were transferring videos from one phone … Read more
Then there’s Amanda. Ever since I’ve known her, she has said that she would like to learn to read. Unlike her younger sister, she wasn’t sent to school. Now her husband has given her a very high tech mobile phone. It is amazing to see how she can navigate around the phone. One evening, as … Read more
Jill shares key insights regarding technology’s place in ministry. The recorded session is above. The keynote is below.
Was out the other week in a camp… In the evening the men were gathered on a mat with us. There were different conversations going on. One of the young men started playing about with his “ring tones”…. so I thought I would pull my phone out and see what he thought of the poetry. … Read more