Cru Digital Ministry

Our Team’s Prayer Calendar

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Please use this for prayer!

Here’s an easy way you can engage with us in ministry with something new almost every day. It’s easy, yet it is mission critical:

It’s our team prayer calendar:  http://mygcx.org/PrayForGTO

Every month new prayer requests are posted here corresponding to new projects in the Global Technology Office (our team).

So, if you would like, please . . .

  • Print out our Prayer Calendar for June – click here to download and print
  • Pray for many of the projects and people by name you see mentioned on the Calendar
  • Visit the calendar next month for new requests and repeat the process

Thank you for praying!  If you have any questions, please contact us.

Family

David’s Dad had a Stroke

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Thanks to several of you who have been praying. We wanted to give you a brief update:

In May David’s Dad suffered what appears to have been a mild stroke. The doctor sent him to the hospital for an MRI to confirm what happened but he was not admitted to stay overnight.

Thankfully the effects have not set him back too much. And he has now had a couple of weeks worth of physical therapy to restore a little mobility – that helped.

Unfortunately the doctors said to “probably expect more” of these types of mild strokes. He has been struggling with Vascular Dementia – somewhat akin to Alzheimer’s – for over five years. Supposedly strokes are one thing that “goes with the territory” of this disease.

Thanks for praying for Mr. Babby – as everyone calls him – his real name is Larrabee, but reportedly his sisters could not pronounce ‘Larrabee’ when they were young so ‘Babby’ stuck instead. Pray too for Mrs. Joanne – David’s Mom – as she daily serves and cares for him with strength and patience that the Lord is providing. She is doing a fantastic job.

Davids Mom and Dad
David's Mom and Dad

See more from a previous post about: Pelham, a special place.

Cru Digital Ministry

How Missionaries Use Technology

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Last year we did a big survey – asking ccci missionaries around the world to tell us how they are using technology to build God’s Kingdom.  Since then other smaller surveys have been conducted which also provide some interesting trends:

  • Our missionaries are moderately to highly connected via the Internet. Regardless of country or location, most spend a minimum of 3 hours a day online. A significant percentage is online approximately 5 or more hours a day.
    * See our recent post about internet availability even in Rwanda
  • Overwhelmingly, our missionaries believe Internet access is important or very important for building a spiritual movement.
  • To a large degree, movement builders use email, mobile phone and text messaging as primary (not supplemental) tools for movement building.
  • Social networking sites, such as Facebook and blogs, are used very frequently and have become primary tools for movement building activities.
  • A large percentage pointed to the need for more education, training and awareness of technology strategies and tools when asked what should change about the way we build spiritual movements as a result of the way technology shapes the world today.

See all the results here and even join in some of the online discussion that followed the survey report: https://www.mygcx.org/Discuss_Technology_in_Movements

Cru Digital Ministry

Internet in Rwanda?

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Really? In the heart of Africa?  If you can connect to the internet in Rwanda, then you’re bound to be able to connect just about anywhere.

Read our previous posts about . . .

Check this out:  Recently my friend Keith got an email from an associate traveling in Rwanda.  This person had expected to find virtually NO way to connect to the internet but . . .

“This place in Rwanda has wireless internet!!!  I have no idea how widely they have it at the hotel, for example, I don’t know if it reaches my room.  I’m in the meeting room at the moment.  This is amazing. The “shower” in my room is one where you have to stand in a bucket. That is, adding a shower to the room was an afterthought. It does have an instant hot water heater in the shower head, but it didn’t work this morning. So, a bucket shower with a water heater that doesn’t work but with newly installed wireless access point!”