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What
Is Video Conferencing?
Question?
Who can do it?
Answer:
Anyone who can bake a cake, type a letter, or teach a Scripture
class can do it. It's as simple as that!
Imagine
a TV picture (a bit jerky) in two lounge rooms hundreds of
kilometres apart, (or around the world) hooked up to the Internet
via the phone line, and you have an idea what a simple video-conferencing
session is all about. One is the sender and the other is the
receiver, but both work the same, and can see and hear each
other simultaneously. It's made possible by 'packets' of digital
sounds and images sent back and forth over the phone lines.
This has only been possible in the last year.
The
day is here when mankind may read the daily newspaper, send
and receive messages, search for information, and transact
business deals from home. It is also the day when the Christian
Gospel may be shared, preached and taught on a one-to-one
personal basis, by video-conferencing, right into remote school
rooms, by invitation of the principal and parents. Simply
log-on, and begin the conversation. It's as radical as the
telephone appeared to be when Alexander Graham Bell invented
it in 1875, but much betterbecause of superior audio
and video abilitiesdue to much faster telephone lines.
Q.
Is it like the TV news?
A.
Similar. That's high-quality expensive satellite TV; this
is the effective poor-cousin, by using the phone line instead.
Q.
Is it like a video player?
A.
No, it is live two-way TV.
Q.
How much does it cost?
A. After computer and connection expenses, a little more than
normal telephone call charges.
Q.
Why use it?
A. It supplements personal Patrol team visits, is regular,
and makes evangelism more effective than ever before. It also
reduces flying team costs substantially, without loss.Field
testing in Februaryactual classes from March on.
Q.
Is it Biblical?
A. Why not? See Daniel 12:4
And
read the accounts of the urgent challenge to reach with whole
world
with the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our day. All Gospels call
us; John
says, 'As the Father hath send me, so send I you!"
We
live in an undreamed age of amazing possibilities, unknown
to our
ancestors.
Let
us grasp the opportunities, andCarpe Deim!
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