Recently media interest at the end of 2006 and beginning of 2007 has
highlighted the virtual communities developing in Cyberspace.
Myspace.com, the world of bloggers and so on, have taken a new
direction with the advent of virtual worlds - of which there are a number, not
least the three milion subscribers to the 'Second Life' metaverse.
Is this a new people group - a transnational one in a sense, possible
to reach more easily within a virtual world ure of their avatars
than in a face-to-face situation.
Unreached peoples in some cultures may be more reachable through
technical means in hi-tech societies.
Japan has one of the foremost hi-tech societies as have some other
Asian societies. We already know the capabilities of internet, satellite
reception and radio, to reach vast audiences within areas hard to access
more directly - not least in places such as Iraq, Iran and China.
We must take up this challenge as FEBA, TWR and other Christian Radio
networks have done, as Sat-7 have done for some time in the Middle East,
as God-TV and others are now doing.
Easily-transported, hand-held technology that allows access to the
internet, perhaps via satellite phone networks may be one way, and might
even reach nomadic peoples where many other communication means have not
yet done so.
We need apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers and evangelists to invade
these virtual and technical worlds. The fields are ripe for harvest!
Oh Father, there are thousands, millions now, who are lost in the world of
cyberspace and virtual worlds such as 'Second Life'. Father equip us, empower us,
anoint us, send us out in the power of your Spirit to live and work for you in
these metaverses! Come Holy Spirit and fill us with wisdom, discernment, grace, hope
and your great compassion, mercy and loving-kindness.
