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My Father’s world and Google
By daniel | September 26, 2008
Just the other day Joshua Project got hacked. I noticed it the night before when I opened Firefox on a pc at OW. Someone with a streak of mean had gotten into the code of the Unreached People of the Day widget and changed some of the wording. It wasn’t even funny. Just mean.
So I did two things: first removed the widget from this website; then called the guys at JP in Colorado Springs to see if they knew what had happened. They were aware of it and at work on it.
The next morning the Joshua Project UPotD widget was there and working right again. But while I was getting the new code back up on this website, I noticed for the first time something quite amazing. Joshua Project, along with Global Research of the International Mission Board and People Groups, has put in some serious work building on the wonderful frame of Google Earth.
Now when you learn of a people for whom you must pray (or don’t and disobey), you can actually go to satellite views of the lands in which the love of God is reaching people as you pray. Or if you are interested in a look before you leap onto a plane for your “Ninevah,” you can check it out here (or refuse to go and instead decide to wait and find out what your “whale” looks like). And if you haven’t tried Google Earth, there is a free version which I love. I can find my old neighborhood in Le Bardo, which is not far from Carthage where our eldest was born. But that’s another story.
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