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 better—because of superior audio and video abilities—due 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 February—actual 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, and—Carpe Deim!

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