You know what it’s like. You sit down to write a report or create that presentation, and your phone beeps at you. Of course, the phone is much more exciting than the project you just started, so with the precision of a cowboy at a fast draw competition, you grab the phone, and in less than a second, you’re corresponding with someone in real-time. After finishing the conversation, you ask yourself, “Okay, where was I?”

Because I deal so much with the negative side of technology, I think people sometimes wonder if I believe there is anything good about the Internet. So I can understand why some might think I’m down on technology.

But I’m not.

What comes to mind when you think of missions? Digging a well in Haiti? Preaching the gospel to indigenous tribes in Africa? Those are good causes worthy of our support. There is a new mission field and it's closer than you might think.