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  • Quest for Higher Education

    Rebekah is a “rising Senior” so we are getting slightly more serious (see photo) about looking at colleges. This one, and the one we visited 10 days earlier, boasted how students could hang hammocks in the palm trees on the quad. (ooh!) Rebekah is having a hard time deciding what she wants to study. She…

  • Africa training team

    Pictured here, in an Ethiopian restaurant are bottom row:  Kay, Karin, David H, and Kelly. (top row) Miheret and myself. Our trip to Africa had 2 main objectives. The first was to help our missionaries build a personal website with our tool, the Global ConneXion, or GCX.  We did this in 2-day classes in the…

  • Zambia has Stories to Tell

    “Thank you for helping me build a website. I never would have dreamed I could have my own website,” said Charles (pictured here with the striped shirt) Charles is Zambian and serves with Athletes in Action, a Campus Crusade ministry.  My team trained 26 people in Zambia this week how to make personal ministry websites…

  • Baseball and Websites

    As Marc Bostrom and I were setting up for a conference April 9, he told me about his ballpark ministry. Marc is a superfan who has already visited over 140 baseball stadiums. He has attended games in all of the Major League baseball parks and is striving to visit all 160 Minor League parks. A…

  • Use Words if Necessary

    “Preach the gospel; use words if necessary”  Francis of Assisi apparently said something like this. But what does that mean?  Are we off the hook as Christians to GO and make disciples of all the nations? Can we just live quietly by ourselves and expect people to come to us? I don’t think so.  Francis…

  • 26 Ministry Sites Created

    David, Karin, and myself have been helping staff in our ministry build personal ministry websites using the GCX tool. So far, since January, we have helped 36 people, and 26 of them have finished their sites. Websites are never really finished, but the new website owners made them public and told their friends. Pictured are…

  • Helping our Missionaries Communicate

    My team, the GCX Advisors, wants to help our missionaries communicate better with their donors using our Global ConneXion (GCX) tool. If a donor can understand what his missionary is doing, the donor will be more likely to continue investing in the missionary. In 2013 we will be focusing on building effective missionary websites by…

  • Welcome Stefan our new Leader

    We are excited to introduce Stefan Dell as the next leader of the Global Technology Office (GTO). Stefan, a citizen of South Africa, has been leading operations teams in Africa for many years. He brings a wealth of experience of working with our staff serving in other countries. Stefan (with his wife Marie and their…

  • Mission Trip for Rebekah

    Last week Rebekah got her Driver’s License. She did really well. She was nervous and so were we as she drove to the mall by herself the same day. But today we are stressed again. Rebekah left this morning on a 10-day mission trip with her school. Thirty students and three adults will be working…