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I don't expect you to read through the entire blog (it got pretty long), but if you're interested you can find it here. Doing this blog turned out to be a fabulous experience...and here's some reasons why:
- Parents back home knew what there kids were doing.
- The congregation-at-large could follow what we were doing.
- The congregation helps our kids raise a lot of money through fundraising efforts -- what a great way for them to see the experience that their financial giving was able to give to our kids.
- The trip participants (youth and adult) were sharing the blog on their Facebook pages and with their friends. What an incredible means of outreach!
- People on the trip all had the chance (if they wanted) to blog about what they were doing and thinking. What a great way to process the experience.
- Even now, one year later, I look back at the blog occasionally and am brought right back to the emotions and memories of the trip. I hope others do the same.
I leave this Saturday for another week-long mission experience. This year we'll be going to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi to continue rebuilding work following the hurricanes that hit the Gulf 5 years ago. Here's where we'll be blogging this year. See ya there in a week!
Lisa,
ReplyDeleteI loved hearing about your experiment in blogging the NYG in New Orleans. I look forward to following your new blog on your summer trip this year. It sounds like your parents and kids are more internet savvy than my Sunday School class, and that's good. My wife and I are teaching a 40-day devotional book on the Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer to about 15 adults, and most of them have not been able or willing to access the blog. So, we are having to blog and email the text to our entire class everytime we blog. It's just a little frustrating, but we all learn slowly with social media, I think. Unless we are a teenager, perhaps. Anyway, I have decided to take my laptop and projector to class next time and walk everyone through how to sign up for a Google account, how to access Google Reader, and how to cut and paste blogs into the "add a subscription" drop down menu, so everyone can sign up for the blog. It may take up half of a Sunday School class, but what can you do? One retiree described himself as a "Luddite" and said he would never be able to do it by himself without a demonstration, so I guess I am going to give the people what they want. . . . And then I'm going to look up Luddite.
Peace,
Arthur