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Another Training Team Member’s perspective

January 22, 2012

mLearning Training Team member Karin Tome wrote a powerful reflection on being part of our Global Technology Office team partnering with others to bring training to pastors and church planters across the Sahara belt in Africa. Karin is part of a team currently training coordinators in Ghana and Kenya who will facilitate over 2,000 being [...]

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A Training Team Member’s perspective

January 22, 2012

29 training topics written and prepared. Check! 4000 pages of training materials printed and collated. Check! 32 trainees from 11 countries traveling to the training locations. Check! Visas. Tickets. Bags packed. Check! Check! Check! Africa, here I come! Keith drove me to the airport. Then he drove home. I, on the other hand, flew to [...]

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Training Team On The Way

January 20, 2012

Training Team Today three of our team left for Accra, Ghana and Nairobi, Kenya to train the technical coordinators who will be teaching the orientation sessions for our mobile phone pastor training course. These are most of the people who developed the training. It took a lot of work, but we expect it will pay [...]

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Failure is a normal part of the process

January 18, 2012

I re-read this today. “Each step by any (and every) one who ships moves us.” Read it! Then pick something you haven’t released or shipped yet and get it out the door today.
What letter hasn’t been written? What gift hasn’t…

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600 memory chips coming right up….

January 10, 2012

Last minute software bugs are now fixed, so today we begin copying the first 600 memory chips that will go into each student phone. We will ship another 1800 blank memory chips, along with two mass duplicators, to the program coordinators in Ghana and Kenya. It is these memory chips which hold the content that [...]

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Who are The Other 16?

January 6, 2012

16 + 1 = 17. I am one of the 17. Are you? By far, the YouVersion Holy Bible App was my favorite, most frequently used “app” on my mobile devices in 2011. Most likely, it will be my most frequently used app in 2012 too. Watch this great video from YouVersion to learn more: [...]

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Three trainers going now….

January 5, 2012

Today our team decided to send three people to do the training in Ghana and Kenya instead of two. This will increase the number of people on our team who can lead other mobile phone training projects in the future. At the same time we are working on some minor last-minute bugs in the mobile [...]

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Training for Accra and Nairobi

January 4, 2012

Today we confirmed our training dates for the coordinators who will be facilitating the mobile phone pastor training. Looks like two people from our team will conduct two days of training in Accra, Ghana and two days in Nairobi, Kenya. It looks like I probably won’t be going on this trip, as it will be [...]

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TruthMedia

December 16, 2011

TruthMedia continues to mobilize the masses to reach the individual. Here is an interesting infographic of their work. Would you like to engage with others right from your computer. You can mentor, you can pray, you can write. You can get involved with TruthMedia. A PDF of this infographic is available here.

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Ideas that Ship: What it was like at MinistryNet

November 30, 2011

What happens when 170 creative volunteers and staff from 32 countries gather in one place for three days to answer the following question? …. How do we leverage the huge opportunities of the internet to deliver the timeless, unchanging message of Christ in fresh, changing ways? Earlier this month, my team from Orlando helped host [...]

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