The Whole World

He's got the little bitty babies, in his hands
He's got the Brothers and the Sisters, in his hands
He's got the Mothers and the Fathers in his hands
He's got the Whole World in his hands

He's Got the Whole World in His Hands

These days it seems that we can each have the whole world in our hands as well, or at least the whole World Wide Web, not to mention all the people we share it with through social media, e-mails, texting, and even the more traditional way of a good old- fashioned phone call.  It’s easy to see how this new technology and the communication it brings is changing the world around us sometimes for the better (easy way to call for help if you have trouble on the road) and sometimes for the worse (your trouble on the road may have been caused by someone distracted by their device!)  I’m usually an early adopter of new technology, but I resisted joining the smart-phone world for quite a while, staying connected through my trusty old flip-phone, my laptop, and my workstation at home.   But when the technology reached a point that I could do just about everything I was doing on all of this equipment, plus all I could do with my still and video cameras with a smart phone,  I had to try it.  And I’m starting to like it.  A lot.

Those of us that get to serve on the St. Mark Communications Committee are working to adapt to this new technology as well-- we recently learned that the service that hosts our web site will no longer be supporting the old server software, and this is due in some measure because of the fact that most folks these days access the web from mobile devices.  We see this as an opportunity to re-think just what it is that we want to achieve in terms of both spreading the Gospel and serving the needs of our congregation and staff, and would love to hear what you think about how we take advantage of the possibilities, from better ways of getting information about church activities and more timely ways of communicating schedule changes due to weather to the ability to provide support and pay for activities through on-line transactions.

The old web site will be up and active (thank you Cathy Schindler!) for a few weeks,  and we would love for you to go there, look it over, and tell us what you find most useful and what you would like to see in the next version.  You can use the links there to check out our other forms of social media-- this Blog, our Facebook page, Twitter feeds, and Pinterest pins, and let us know what you think of them as well.  We will be presenting all of this during the Mid-Week program at 7:00 on May 7^th in Fellowship Hall, and would like to invite everyone to attend.  This informative and exciting evening will begin at 6:30 with the Mid-Week worship service, in Fellowship Hall as well, where we will seek God’s guidance in all of these efforts, and then get to work with the confidence and inspiration that comes from knowing we are all in God’s Hands!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXrqnfcW_Y8

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