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11:29 (MST), Tuesday, 2 March 2010

John Woodberry, MAF Disaster Response Manager:

First of all it has been a pleasure serving with you. I leave tomorrow on a break and Tim Vennell will fill in for me in my absence.

“The last 15 years have changed our world for ever,” claims Tony Whittaker, co-ordinator of Internet Evangelism Day. “Digital media are transforming the way we communicate, behave and even think. If Facebook was a country, it would have the fourth largest population in the world.”

Internet Evangelism Day is a strategic resource to help the worldwide church understand these issues and use the Web to share the good news. It is both a year-round online guide and an annual focus day - to be held this year on Sunday 25 April.

Churches are encouraged to use Internet Evangelism Day resources to create a presentation for their members on or near that Sunday (or at any other time they choose). The IE Day site offers free downloads: PowerPoint, video clips, handouts, drama scripts, music and posters. These enable any church (or homegroup, college, or conference) to build a customized program, lasting from five minutes to fifty.

2010’s focus day will be the sixth to be used by churches around the world since the initiative’s launch in 2005. Over this period, digital media have developed dramatically, with the advent of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and the growing use of mobile phones to access online services.
The outreach opportunities have multiplied too.  There are now more mobile phone users in Africa than any other continent.

MAF-LT is excited to announce a new release of DEScribe!  DEScribe is a course authoring application that supports exporting to DEViewer.  This release of DEScribe includes several smaller enhancements:

• Added a selected icon to the cascading style sheet display in the metadata tree.  This is useful if a package contains multiple css files.
• The styles in the cascading style sheet are now automatically displayed in the WYSIWYG drop-down styles menu.
• Added the list of panes under the Windows menu item.  Each pane can be shown or hidden from this menu.
• Added additional file types to the file-type selector in the insert images and resources dialog box

A set of completed tickets for this release is located on the DEScribe Trac site for release 1.2.5.1.
 
For more information and to download DEScribe 1.2.5, please visit the DEScribe product page.

La Carpio has no known internet connectivity, partly because of major lack of resources but also because of geographical isolation. It is actually within the capital city of Costa Rica, but because it's a slum built around a garbage dump, it is nicely isolated from surrounding areas by a river on each side, a garbage dump on the third, and the only way in and out is a thin road on a sort of peninsula.

Our partnering with the missionary Steve Edwards who has been serving that isolated community for the last five years, has shaped the Christian impact in that poor area.

A computer lab is already in place and running, installed in August 2008. Steve, the missionary there, has been using the lab almost exclusively to allow kids to use. However, with little supervision, the lab has been largely just an arcade. This has also served to open up the lab to become a nice dish of viruses.

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