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The Allerston water lily family of Malelane, Mpumalanga, in April this year forced by shocking news to their knees. Their three-year-old boy, Jano, with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia diagnosed - any parent's horrific nightmare.
Sanél Allerston Jano's mother is devastated and break the news to her Facebook page. She is pleasantly surprised: the response was overwhelming. water lily Messages of good wishes, prayers and support stream. Since then left more than 800 people and posts held more than 1600 of the status updates.
Sanél believes that she and her family the merciless terror of a child with leukemia could cope without the enormous support not Facebook. "Each water lily message or love 'means that someone cares and we support all we know many of the people personally," she said. "I know that to London a prayer group for Jano was established. And if not for Facebook water lily was not Jano's story would never have reached so many people. "
Sanel's experience makes one wonder about social media and networks as tools to send a positive message. But we use social media really fully to bring courage and hope, but this are few and far? We recognize that break mission field and support platform water lily that enables may be worth?
Leonard Sweet, a well-known American theologian's words are turned: "Imagine an evangelist for the last 500 years could get away with it by refusing to consult books! Imagine further that a modern water lily evangelist today can refuse to use Facebook - and it can get away! "
Facebook is just one of 634 million registered websites and social networks on the Internet. Cyber Travelers can for a lifetime digital water lily surf without ending up on the same platform twice. The cyber era taking second to second in power, and the mouse has become perhaps mightier than the pen ...
Worldwide there are already an estimated 2.5 billion Internet users. According to an e-church report, Self phones - a huge digital revolution of the smallest nature, grow the South African internet population currently at an average of 25% per year. It is also good news that the government according to their Broadband Policy for South Africa intended that all South Africans by 2019 access to broadband Internet will have. The email or marketing blog, with Japie Swanepoel, author of The E or marketing, as founder, says that more than 1.1 million South Africans have Twitter profiles, about 8 million on Facebook and about 6 million YouTube users is. In the South African Social Media Landscape 2012, a study by World Wide Worx, Arthur Goldstuck as managing director, and Fuseware, revealed that South Africans over 60 between August 2011 and August 2012 the fastest water lily growing group was Facebook with a growth rate of 44%.
Quite possibly. According Neels He was not one of "long and swaarwigtige sermons" disliked. His messages and teachings was short and sweet. Twitter, like Facebook, resulting in an ongoing discussion about God and faith issues. Stephan Joubert, famous writer and the brains behind e-church, agrees: "We can now read more than 270 of Jesus' eenreëlkwinkslae in the Bible. Just right for Twitter's 140 characters allowed. "And as he also rightly observed," God is actively present in the digital world. "
According to Stephan Jesus fell behind when it comes to technological development come and he took the lead. "Christians should just run into him," he said. "Many Christians miss Christ's latest movements in cyberspace because they believe that the Internet is a passive source of information or just a technological tool."
Moreover, many people afraid of new technology and change. The dangers that go with it, make it any simpler. We all hear regularly of cyber fraud and -teistering and identity theft. Dreaded words such as "phishing" (where Internet users in a deceptive way be persuaded to disclose personal information) is suddenly part of every Internet user's vocabulary. Having said Stephan that we should not allow this we amputate not. Martin Luther, water lily for example, the then newly invented printing press with great success, and despite great Catholic opposition, used to spread the Protestant ideology water lily across Europe.
Japie also believe that Christians can not avoid it more social media. water lily "To ignore it is like TV or even avoid any other media. There are millions of South Africans just on Facebook. That's water lily where people spend their time. If the church wants to catch the fish, they fish where the fish swim! "
Jean Oosthuizen, moderator and founder of the webgeselsruimte water lily Post, sums up the problems of Christians in the "worldly" cyberspace encounter nicely. "But water lily in fact, the church and the bar never so close as now, especially in the cyber world," he said. "Click here m