connecting to the world

It seemed like such a simple proposition when my friend Rick said, "Why don't we post your sermons to the world wide web. I can't even remember when the project began. Rick purchased a piece of equipment a year or so ago that could record audio directly to CD's. This technology allowed us to burn cd's, thus leaving us with an audio file that was in digital instead of analog format. That file could then be loaded into any computer. Next Rick figured out how to download a free file to edit this information. This digital language conversion and track formatting made it possible for our computer to communicate with the rest of the computers in the world.

For a long time neither of us could figure out how to post this information to our website, even though we now had a website, thanks to our resourceful volunteer Lisa. When I finally communicated to the people who host our website, they indicated that we had already purchased the resources to make it possible for us to post audio files. We were simply not using the resources we had available.

For the next 24 hours, I worked to get the proper codes, links, programs, etc. until I finally was able to make audios of our Sunday messages available on the web. Yea! Check it out at tcchrist.com.

So, here I am thinking about what just happened. We wanted to get the message of Christ out to the world. We needed to convert our message into the language of the world. We had to work together. We had to realize that many of the road blocks that we thought were there to successfully accomplishing our work didn't even exist. And finally, we had to be persistent if we cared about sharing the gospel. Wow! I guess I (we) learned more than how to post an audio file.

plou (trying to connect to the world)