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As the world grows increasingly smaller through technically advanced communications, the efforts to evangelize are also assisted. Impact International, Inc. is a small mission agency based in Florida. However, through the use of the Internet, this small office reaches the entire Spanish-speaking world, including countries like Sweden, which has a large Spanish population.

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I gave my life to the Lord at the age of 19, long before PCs, laptops, or the internet. Back in those days I thought my Apple II+ was a really cool computer with 64k of memory! I knew nothing about missions, but I had made the Lord a promise: that wherever He wanted me to go and whatever He wanted me to do for the rest of my life, that’s what I would do. Little did I know that one day I would end up halfway around the world as a foreign missionary.

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OurChurch.Com’s focus for the month of June is on missions.  If you didn’t get the announcement yesterday, we launched a new Missions Mashup page, which combines information about missionaries around the globe onto one page.  As you may know we like to orient the topics of our blog articles around the focus for the month.  I could probably write some useful articles about using web technology, but I think we’d all benefit from reading the perspective of people who have actually done missions work.  So, we’re looking for some pastor present missionaries who would like to be guest bloggers this month.

To be a guest blogger you don’t have to have a blog or have ever blogged before to be a guest blogger.  But you do need to have served as a missionary or within a missions organization.  And you need to be able to write an article about how you used the Internet to help your ministry.

If you’d like to do this, please send us a 2 paragraph message either as a public comment to this blog article or as a private message through our help desk.  The first paragraph should be about you and your background.  The second paragraph should be a summary of the article you propose to write.

If you know some people who are or have served as missionaries outside their native country who you think would make great guest bloggers, please pass the word along to them.

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The 5 Apple Pickers 

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