Technology in 1992

I was sitting in a district technology meeting last week and was thinking to myself how far we have come with technology since I began in Osage City 16 years ago.

I remember the day in 1992 when my computer teacher came to my office when I was the high school principal and told me about a new type of information source called the Internet. She thought it might be nice to have one dial up line for the high school. We would have a monthly charge of $150 just for the one computer. After listening to her proposal and checking out some of the information I decided to take the proposal to my superintendent. At first he said no and thought it was a fad, but a few days later allowed us to try it out for three months.

16 years later; 2 T-1 lines, wireless internet, 500 computers, laptops, Smart Boards, projectors, video, portable labs, palms, textbooks on line, classes on-line, clickers, and at least a $1,000,000 we have come along way.

How about church? Have we progressed as much as the school systems, business and society when it comes to reaching those outside of Christ using new technology and strategies? Or are we using the same old-fashioned ways that we always have in evangelism?

If we don’t make major changes we are not going to be able to accomplish what Christ expects of his church.

We are not living in a flannel graph society any longer.