Online Missionaries Needed

Seeking spiritual guidance through search engines is so popular these days that a legion of online missionaries is being assembled in Orlando to answer the cyber-prayers.

Global Media Outreach — a ministry of Orlando-based Campus Crusade for Christ International — has formed a partnership with Northland, A Church Distributed, in Longwood to recruit and train 5,000 online missionaries by 2010.

“We are overwhelmed. We don’t have enough online missionaries to handle what we are getting now — which is a wonderful problem,” said the Rev. Allan Beeber, Orlando director of Global Media.

Global Media has more than 90 Web sites aimed at search-engine seekers of God. Type in a query about Jesus, and WhoIsJesus-Re ally.com shows up in the results. Type in a question about God’s existence and Jesus2020.com shows up as a sponsored link. There are religion-based Web sites for teenagers, Marines, soccer players, Boston Red Sox fans, and The DaVinci Code.

At the bottom of each Web site is a feedback form that asks for names, e-mail addresses and a space for comments and questions. About 30,000 people a day fill out that form and press the send button, Beeber said.

Those contacts and comments are forwarded to one of the Global Media’s 2,900 online missionaries trained to answer questions of faith — or refer to someone who can.

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What I cut and pasted above is actually from two different sections of the article, so it might not read well together, but then again, it might.  Either way, I just wanted to provide you with what I considered the meatiest part of the article.

On second thought, Carolyn from Boston is an avid reader who is a vegetarian, so that comment could be taken the wrong way.  Sorry, Carolyn.

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Ralph Reed Launches New Values Group: ‘Not Your Daddy’s Christian Coalition’

Ralph Reed, the Republican operative who built the Christian Coalition into a potent political force in the 1990s by mobilizing evangelicals and other religious conservatives and who did similar work to help George W. Bush win two presidential elections, is quietly launching a group aimed at using the Web to mobilize a new generation of values voters. In addition to targeting the GOP’s traditional faith-based allies—white evangelicals and observant Catholics—the group, called the Faith and Freedom Coalition, will reach out to Democratic-leaning constituencies, including Hispanics, blacks, young people, and women.

“This is not your daddy’s Christian Coalition,” Reed said in an interview Monday. “It’s got to be more brown, more black, more female, and younger. It’s critical that we open the door wide and let them know if they share our values and believe in the principles of faith and marriage and family, they’re welcome.”

“There’s a whole rising generation of young leaders in the faith community, and rather than nab the publicity I did at Christian Coalition, I want to cultivate and train that rising generation,” Reed said. “One question is, who is our future Barack Obama, doing local organizing just like he was in the 1990s?”

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I was a little fascinated with this part:

The Faith and Freedom Coalition has been quietly active for a few weeks but has attracted no news media notice so far. Reed said that was intentional: “We’re less focused on the pyrotechnics than on being a strong grass-roots presence all the way down to the precinct level, which has always been my emphasis.”

The timing worked out well for not attracting a lot of attention, with the events of the South Carolina governor and all.

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