{"id":3940,"date":"2008-08-19T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:43:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:43:36","slug":"140-characters-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/140-characters-of-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"140 characters of prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel like I’ve been<\/a> sending<\/a> a lot of prayer<\/a>–related<\/a> txt messages<\/a> and tweets<\/span> lately. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. I actually have only heard positive things from folks getting them (however please let me know if you’d rather not receive them).<\/p>\n

I’ve found that txt messages, Twitter<\/a> and e-mail have turned the traditional “prayer chain” into a rapid fire prayer blast. Within seconds\/minutes folks all around the world can be updated with the latest prayer needs.<\/p>\n

I’ve used txt messaging and e-mail for some time now. And with my new phone I love the ability to assign folks to message groups so I’m not selecting multiple people each and every time I send a message out.<\/p>\n

But I have to wonder if there’s still yet a better way to send out rapid-fire prayer needs\/requests. If more folks signed up to Twitter it could really become an informational network where folks could chose to receive updates via the web or txt messages. Perhaps an alternative Twitter feed could be setup just for prayer requests\/alerts.<\/p>\n

I wonder what it would take to build a system for churches or ministries where prayer alerts could be entered into a system and a message would be sent to Twitter, Plurk (get the most responses from Plurk), Jaiku, etc feeds (140 characters max of course), sent to those requesting cell phone updates, and then a longer more detailed message could also go directly to an RSS feed that could be subscribed to via traditional RSS readers and or e-mail.<\/p>\n

Ultimately folks could subsubscribe, unsubscribe and also choose how to receive the prayer alerts.<\/p>\n

Is this asking too much? Am I over thinking this? Is it already there? I bet with a little planning a system could be built using WordPress and a couple different plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hmmm…. could lead to some great possibilities.<\/p>\n

What do you prefer? How is your church spreading news\/announcements\/prayer requests? Still using traditional mediums like bulletins, announcements and prayer chains? Are you on the “cutting edge” and using txt messages, or RSS? <\/p>\n

Share you thoughts and ideas!<\/p>\n

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