Rich's Travels

(Rich with Egyptian on skype call to Malaysia)

Skype is a great tool for communicating with people around the world. Have a skype account and a microphone and a high speed internet connection and you can have a phone call with anyone in the world for free! So, while I was in Egypt we had a call between some of our leadership in Egypt and some of the leadership of our internet ministry in Malaysia. The goal was for the Malaysian leadership to ask some of our Egytians questions how they do some of their ministry on the internet. It was a fun time watching Egyptians and Malaysians ask questions in English (after of course, conferring in their native tongue of Arabic and Chinese) about ministering to students on the internet. I enjoyed being the “Middle Man” and connecting these 2 groups for their conversation.

However, that was not my only reason for being in Cairo. I also had a chance to meet with a group of Arabs who do ministry on the internet. We worked on improving our websites as well as creating connections for students who ask Christ to come in their life on the internet to continue in their spiritual journey by being followed up and receiving information on how to grow in their new faith in Christ. Through the everystudent site when someone indicates a decision for Christ we see 70% of those students click on our follow up site startingwithgod. That statistic is amazing! In all my years on campus, I never saw 70% of those who came to Christ in an evangelistic meeting want to be followed up! Thus, www.everyarabchristian.com has been created and launched and connected to some of our other sites.