Important: see the wise comment from Mike Boyink before running out and implementing this idea. As I said in my response to Mike, I’m going to give this some further thought.
In the meantime, check out Mike’s newly designed website, where you can regularly read insightful commentary on the state of web design today (and many other topics).
Recently, I’ve been having fleeting questions run through my mind about how a photo blog might be used for outreach purposes. Until a couple of hours ago, I would have said that there really isn’t much use for them in terms of outreach. But then I was reading a post by Jordon Cooper about how Bible colleges and seminaries could make better use of their websites. Jordon was lamenting the sterility of most efforts by Christian educational institutions to reflect the life of their community through photos:
Of course tools like Flickr and Movable Type working together make it a lot easier to show a day by day life of a community, from academics, to spirituality, to the social life of the community.
That made me think about how a church might be able to better present the life of their community to the public through frequently updated photo galleries which would remain largely unmoderated. What if a church were to establish an official photo team and ask them, armed with digital cameras, to take photos of congregational life and post them to these galleries on a regular basis. Would this serve to present the life of the community effectively? Just thinking out loud. Anyone know of any churches doing something like this?
I believe that the internet provides today's church with a historic opportunity .... to tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love in ways which could only have been imagined in times past. The objective of this website is to explore the various ways in which today's technology can be used to spread the gospel around the world.
