I have been seeing imaginative and creative ways of using technologies lately. Rather than being threatened by new technologies, Scott Hodge, Lead Pastor at The Orchard embraces technology both to galvanize his faith community, and also during their actual services. I was really impressed when they follow-through a teaching on rhythms of prayer with an experiment using Twitter where their church members were encouraged to sign-up on Twitter and then follow their church Tweets. Then as part of this exercise they would post tweets periodically that would prompt their church to stop what they were doing a few times a day and just pray. This was a throwback to monastic practices of fixed-hour prayer and according to Scott Hodge it seems to have gone down really well with their congregation.
Another example of The Orchard being really creative with technology is in their use of SMS during church services. They held a Q&A session recently that encouraged people to txt their questions with the use of Jarbyco – they found that people would readily txt questions that they would never ask by raising a hand in public. That’s awesome!!!!
Also from Scott’s bog comes this video about a really cool way to capitalize on Twitter by Kogi, a Korean BQ Taco truck in L.A. – check it out:
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