This is total blog-plagiarism. I’ve been wanting to blog about this great article that appeared in the Orlando Sentinel. Since my close friend and partner in ministry here in Budapest, Jerry already blogged it and as I read his, I couldn’t have said it better.
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My friend, Rob, who started a blog about making Christ known on the Internet, pointed out a good article in the Orlando Sentinel, “Connecting through e-vangelism” about what Tom and I are working on here in Eastern Europe. The two people mentioned in the article have been inspirations for Tom and I as we help our staff here in Eastern Europe develop similar sites for students here.
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Here’s an excerpt:
By Carol Scott | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted November 14, 2004
“To spread the gospel, evangelical Christians are using Web sites such as everystudent.com, run from the home of an Orlando woman for the Campus Crusade for Christ. It’s an effective high-tech link.
The girl’s plea for help didn’t make a sound.
Instead, it popped up silently in Marilyn Adamson’s e-mail in-box.
It’s not that I don’t believe in God, because I do, and I want to believe in the stories . . . I think I need God, but I don’t know how to find him. Can you help me? Wrestling with drug addiction, alcoholism and fears about a recent abortion, the 18-year-old reached out to Adamson’s Web site, EveryStudent.com, in January, asking for spiritual guidance. She had never gone to church or read the Bible, she said. She had gone online to search for answers from the anonymity of her home computer.
Adamson was ready to help. …”