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Last night, Troy Gramling, my pastor launched the first on line staff meeting. Here on campus there were only few volunteers helping with cameras, the tech team and the Internet Campus team. Everyone else was at home, or Starbucks or anywhere else watching on their computers. Troy is sharing the vision of being able to do ministry without boundaries, and using technology. There was an attendance of 237 staff people who watched or at least listened the meeting. One of the last minute challenges was to have those with no computer, or computer problems connected, so we decided to use a conference system where people was able to dial a number and merge into the meeting. We got the service, but we needed what is called a “Phone Patch” to connect the audio to the phone line, and it was too late to order one of those pieces, so I made a “Tape-Phone Patch” and it worked fine, as you can see on the picture. Creativity is triggered by need, don’t you think so? Have you ever solved anything compl...

My Church, Flamingo Road Church has a vision to open 50 new campuses to reach 100,000 people. One of the key to succeed will be communications. At this point we have six campuses; one of them is at Lima City , in Peru . 3,000 miles away (more or less) How to be connected? Internet is now the way. Yesterday we got our weekly staff meeting and for the first time, we where able to include Steve Guschov and his wife Dorcas in our meeting. They are running the Lima Campus and thanks to the internet , they were present on the meeting. Times are changing, church too… we are molding to the new era of telecommunications.