The Internet Missionary

Tentative Mission

To inspire the next generation of internet missionaries to use the faith and technical skills they have acquired to teach in the likeness the greatest Teacher there will ever be.

My prayer is that God would allow this blog to be a meeting place for people of all faiths who want to teach by example. And that He would help ordinary people in every field of study use the technologies of the internet for good and not evil. May this be a place where the web.evangelist and the internet blend together like a master craftsman and his tools.

Internet Based Training

This will be the meat and potatoes of the site. Right now I'm not limiting the subject matter too much. Just trying to go with the flow.

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Communication

This is the summation of my writing technique. "One line has to relate to the previous one". (That's what my cousin Dorothy Jean told me, she writes plays and such) I know, a tad simplistic, but that's is about all I really know about how I write. I have quite a bit to learn. So I probably won't be posting many tutorials on the subject of writing, how to write, what to write about. But with that disclaimer all written out in black and white, here are a few principles that I agree with.

• Read.


• Take note of what you like. (the style, happy, sad, joyful, just down right hilarious )


• And lastly (I don't really know if that's a word) take advice from experienced writers you respect in some way. If you read enough you will find that you will start to adapt the style of those authors. By the way those principles work for tech stuff too. Good starting points online are as follows:

• Molly Ellen

><> ><> ><> ><> ><> Blurb: Molly and I are not really on a first name basis but I totally agree with this article and from the looks of her about me blurb we have a few general things in common, I'm not sayin which. You go girl.




• It's Not About The Website

><> ><> ><> ><> ><> Blurb: Obviously we get a peek into the design process of a real pro.




• Online Evangelism: Writing Section

><> ><> ><> ><> Blurb: A tiny, but very useful directory of resources.




• Fellowship of Christian Writers

Blurb: I can't really give a review of this group seeing as how I just joined the group. But I was impressed with their mission statement, and the fact that membership is free, and ok so I'm kinda givin a review, and the fact that they have been around for 25 years, and their web site has a simple clean look to it.

Blogs Better Than Mine

Well the title should be self explanatory. These are the web developers that I learn from and who mentor me via the internet. Those who already have attained a level of technical savvy that I haven't reached, not yet anyway. That is a part of the mission (which I'm still trying to flesh out) of this blog. Really the idea was to personally document not only what, but how I teach myself all the geeky stuff I can get my hands on. Hold on tight now, the really big word that I learned another lifetime ago while I was attending CPCC is metacognition. Knowing how you know.

Here's the short list.

Tech & Ministry
Online Evangelism
Godbit Project
The Digital Sanctuary
The Web-Empowered Church

Internet Church
lifechurch.tv

Going Tribal

The discovery channels BBC documentary "Going Tribal" is a fantastic example of one man quest to relate to others that are "different" in some way. Experiencing other cultures can help us all relate on some basic and even profound levels. There is the understanding that some things are common to all people.

Its so popular now to go tribal, seek to get back to the "nature" roots of the primitive man. Some brave souls hope to find something that will link all planetary inhabitants together in one colorful package. Then we can all play nice with each other without reverting back to the base natures that only serve the few and not the many. But at some point we must lift our view up from the grit and ask a few questions about our shared customs and heritages.

So the conclusion is, drum roll please, Are we really all alike? Great! Or not so much as I thought. I look like you, you look like me, were all one big earthly family. So whats next, what do we do now? What kind of activities do we have at the reunion? Where is this big shindig going to be thrown? Who's doing all the cooking? Who gets to be the Alpha pair?

That last one is sure to cause a tussle to break out so how in the world do we keep the peace. Ok, its impossible to keep everyone happy so we give up on that and settle on trying to keep everyone busy until the answer to our get together problems falls out of the sky.

Eureka! Lets get organized into groups, every tribe doing their part. We'll have this party started in no time. Or will we? Maybe the party is over already and no one bothered to send us an invitation. I know, we didn't get to be part of the party planning committee. Jer. 29:11