June 2010

I have written of the need for 50,000 teams by 2050. This is based on the idea that each team (1 to 3 cross cultural pioneer workers) would raise up 100 local ministries, each of which would seek to evangelize 1,000 people. Thus, one cross-cultural team would lead to 100,000 being reached, and 50,000 teams would lead to 5 billion people being reached—e.g. the whole of the non-Christian world. This allows for significant team overlap, the obvious problems of attrition, some teams that won’t successfully mobilize 100 ministries, etc. One initial feedback I received suggested more than 3 people would [...]

http://tcrn.ch/bhXKe9 – in this article about the Google Android operating system, note the comment at the end: when systems are “locked down” they can become perfect from a design perspective – the flexibility of Windows sacrifices the design perfection of Apple. I love my iPhone but Windows is more widely used on PCs….

http://bit.ly/bfUPUO – Ed Stetzer makes good points about denominations, many of which are very swarmish (the SBC is a prime example of a denominational swarm).

http://nyti.ms/9KQpqa – a look at the lives of Muslim women in America who wear the full veil.

http://nyti.ms/ahnaQU – NYT: experts set up shop in developing countries to help farmers handle plants and insects, improve farming

http://bit.ly/aDAMjy – frequent flying missionaries should ignore plane food and sleep well on a long flight instead. (Lifehacker.)