VSN India

Just had a great skype call with Biju Matthews from Bangalore. He wants to connect with like-minded people in India. To anyone wanting to start a local network, please read Phill Butler's article "Effective Collaboration" (go to Resources tab, then downloads, and look under Networking).

International Orality Network Conference

The annual gathering of leaders and practitioners involved in the Orality Movement of missions is this September 20-23 in Atlanta. This gathering is for those who work with the unreached people groups and those who work with the literate who "choose" to communicate by oral means even though they can read and write. Look under "events" for more info.

North Africa

I just returned from a 12 day trip to North Africa. Clearly, visual media continues to invade the lives of people in every corner of the earth. While sitting in the living room of a family with very modest means, we had to talk over the volume of a Rachel Ray show broadcast in English (subtitled in Arabic).