Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, tens of thousands of people have fled to the United States (37,000 slated to be sent to various states initially) and other countries. According to one U.N. estimate, up to half a million refugees will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2021 . Since they are coming to the church’s … Read more
As much as I love video, I confess that audio-first/audio-only people have some strong arguments why you should think about audio as much as (if not more than) video for mobile ministry. Here are some of their arguments: 1) Oral peoples love oral messages, so adding visuals to a story sometimes detracts from … Read more
We recently shared resources that detail the digital habits of people in dozens of countries. The Digital World Atlas is a site we are developing to provide a “one-stop-shop” for all your country-specific information needs (volunteers are very welcome)! Last month, we also shared stats from DataReportal, which provides dozens of country-specific reports and beautiful … Read more
The MMF team is continuing to produce training videos for the Mobiles, Media and Missions curriculum and the latest two deal with the initial stages of launching out into social media ministry. The first lesson deals with knowing the possibilities and setting objectives for your social media outreach while the second helps you to set … Read more
(This post was written by Martin Lange, an SIL worker who trains national workers to use and create technology.) I am a tormented man. Every day I wake up with a conflict raging in my soul, and I’m coming to the conclusion that there is no happy ending, no satisfactory reconciliation. Here is the problem. … Read more
Jill and I were teaching the third session of the Mobiles in Missions course and I wanted to share something with the MMF that Jill reinforced to me at the end of the class. Earlier in the class, I had shared how one of our missionaries in Central Asia had been getting to know a … Read more
What a difference one year can make. Over the last twelve months, more than a million new people a day came online, which leaves us with 57% of the world’s population now being “netizens” (Internet users). Social media usage grew at a similar rate – with 288 million more social media users in the world … Read more
Forbes recently said something along the lines of, “In just a few years, it will take an individual more than 5 million years to watch the amount of video that will cross global IP networks each month.” According to Cisco, something like a million minutes, or almost 17,000 hours of video content will cross the … Read more
Jon Stearly picks up the challenge of a mobile security presentation for the 2017 MMF Consultation. Jon worked for 15 years at Sandia National Laboratories at positions involving data mining and cyber security. He now serves as Technology Development Director at Faith Comes By Hearing. Jon lists the 4 basic principles as: Be aware Be … Read more
Craig Detweiler, Director, Center for Entertainment, Media and Culture at Pepperdine University was the featured speaker for the third installment of the 2014 MMF webinar series on June 17. Craig writes the Doc Hollywood blog on Patheos.com and his latest book is, iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives. He has written or edited several … Read more