The real author of this article has been ministering among the diasporas of indigenous people groups in northwest Mexico for over three decades. Over the last two years, during my visits to California, I began noticing a change in the ethnic mix of men gathering every morning at a Home Depot parking lot to find work. … Read more
Ounce for ounce, nothing can beat the ubiquitous microSD card as a ministry tool. Here are a few examples of ministry via microSD card: Donna, a worker in India, gave a microSD card filled with audio and video files about Jesus to her friend, Amira. She was very poor, but she had a media-capable phone … Read more
Distributing the Bible (ie. Scripture portions, the New Testament, or the entire Bible) electronically has become so important lately. As billions of people purchase smartphones and tablets, the demand for the Bible and Scripture resources for these devices only increases. Wifi media boxes (WMBs) like the Lightstream and ConnectBox were designed to meet this growing … Read more
Two resources are now available to help us gain a big perspective on the current state of the world’s people. Gordon Conwell’s Center for the Study of Global Christianity has released its Status of Global Christianity 2022, which shows that the growth of the world’s Christian population continues to fall behind the overall population growth … Read more
I admit it. I’m a web and app-development dummy. The Mobile Ministry Forum website is designed and maintained by professionals, and I do my best to stay out of its back-end work. I intended to continue being a web and app dummy, but then two things happened… First, the war in Afghanistan ended, so the … Read more
A few years ago, Mashable featured an interview with Melinda Gates titled Tech’s Responsibility to the Developing World. Pay attention to Gates’ perspective if you’re using mobile ministry to glorify God among unreached peoples: When it comes to issues in the developing world, an understandable concern is “technology creep,” wherein organizations use advanced technologies even … Read more
If you’re living in the present, doing everything you can just to get to the things that need to be done today, you’re in good company. Your problem is that solving today’s problems doesn’t necessarily prepare you for tomorrow’s world and the opportunities and issues it will bring. Every once in a while, it’s good … Read more
Guest Post by The DMM Platform At The DMM Platform, we are experiencing the Kingdom breakthroughs that come when those who have never heard of Jesus hear Him speaking in their heart language. Simple, reproducible churches emerge as people in some of the most difficult and hard-to-reach places begin listening and responding to Jesus. We … Read more
I first reviewed the VN editing app in April 2020 (version 1.10.5). At that time, while the app had lots of functionality and features. But the biggest problem (making the app unusable for me) was that VN constantly crashed on the Pixel 3a and Samsung S8 phones I used for testing. I recently … Read more
The Mobile Ministry Forum exists to see God’s glory and kingdom increase on the earth as Jesus’ disciples follow His great commission and make disciples of all people, teaching them to obey everything He has commanded. As these new disciples obey Jesus, they too will make disciples, and we should see multiplication and movements of … Read more