I have featured this web site before on my blog. They create the portable projection 'Jesus Film' backpacks. But this setup is one that we've been eying for a while here in PNG.
The idea we've been toying with is putting such a device in our vehicles, planes, helicopters. So that when people draw near, they get a bluetooth prompt 'the Jesus Film is available in your language, click to download'
We could put entire audio Bibles on there, films, etc.
Sure the actual download speed is rather slow right now.... but once someone gets a copy, it'll go viral in the village as they can transfer it from phone to phone.
Many PNGians have cell phones, and often smart cell phones, capable of viewing video and playing audio.
And so a nice little compact unit like this, that can distribute in a wide way... could be pretty awesome.
Imagine, every air strip we sit and refuel at, broadcasting the good news of Christ in audio and video.
Imagine every time we travel and stop for meetings, or picking up cargo, or transporting people to/from their destination.... there are always people sitting around, gawking, watching, doing little to nothing.
Imagine those people having their phone beep them, and clicking 'yes' and then seeing or hearing God's Word in their language for the first time?
It is an amazing concept, and one that I'm hopeful will become practical in the next 3 years or so. Right now, it's not super practical because of the realistic speeds of the transfer and how long we sit in one place.
But we could work around that in so many ways.
Anyway.. it's exciting, and it means a ton of work in compiling and gathering all the work we've done over the years, but thankfully, in the last 6 months I've been able to store most everything we've done on a local NAS device, so getting it all in one place, shouldn't be overly difficult.... just time consuming.
But that leads me onto the next blog entry.
