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My family recently went through one of those seemingly endless cycles of sickness.  If you’re a parent you know what I’m talking about.  My daughter, Ainsley, came home from kindergarten one afternoon with a fever and missed the next few days of school.  Then the following week we got a call from my son, Aidyn’s, preschool saying he had a runny nose and needed to be picked up early, and he missed a couple days of school.  I was next with a 24-hour bug, and then it was my wife, Jennifer’s, turn before Ainsley went down with her second bout.  (Miraculously my 3 month old daughter, Aryn, escaped illness entirely.)  Moreover, almost all of our friends and family with school-age children seemed to also go through same thing where pretty much someone was sick for several weeks.  

So, which virus do you want to catch?  The one with the fever?  The runny nose?  The 24-hour flu? (Hint: it’s not biological)
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Last week OurChurch.Com launched the AIDS Clickathon.  The Clickathon is like an online walkathon.  You click… our sponsors donate to a ministry providing food, shelter, clothing, education, and love to children in Africa who have lost their parents to the AIDS epidemic.

I’m very excited about doing something that will make a huge difference in the lives of many children who are destitute and living on the streets in Kenya.  I’m also very excited about providing a way for lots of other people to join us in helping these children.  As a techie, however, there are also some things about the Clickathon that get me excited because of the way Internet technology is being used to take this ministry to a whole new level.

So, in this article I’m going to look at how the inherent benefits of the Internet are having a huge impact on the effectiveness of Clickathon and its ability to help children in Africa impacted by the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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