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Re Tweeting to Higher Grounds...

Neil Cox, IndyChristian

Carpe Diem! Right? Seize the day. So when I had the opportunity to have coffee with Larry Wilson, I jumped on it. Larry is the Editorial Director at Wesleyan Publishing House. As such, he has the ability to impact 38,000 lives each year -- and that's just in Sunday School. Their materials are used around the world. For instance, just this week he got an email from the Philippines, thanking him for the curriculum.



Moreover, it was great to see just how adept he is at 'socia media'. We don't typically see the print-world so readily involved in the digital world. But then... as his blog-header reveals... he is just a little 'different'...



One of the reasons we got together for coffee is that Larry is on-fire to find ways to proliferate the Word of God pervasively throughout the city... and especially to help get people actually READING it for themselves. Larry noted a few years ago that their publishing house sold 40,000 'one-year' Bibles. [One-year Bibles are laid out day by day throughout the year, with an Old Testament reading and a New Testament reading each day, along with some Psalms & Proverbs mixed in.] He noted that apparently there's a pretty active thirst for Bible-reading... and perhaps even repetitively year after year.

[In fact, we have a common acquaintance... Joe Jackson (white shirt, on the drums!)... whom I know through a men's 'read-thru' group in Carmel. Another source told me that 20 of the Indianapolis Colts also read through through the scriptures each year. Cool.]

And btw... it's not just Larry who's so web-adept. Actually it was because his wife Heather was easily seen on the web, that created the link so we could have coffee today.



I was reading the little 'Answers' magazine that I get in the mail from time to time -- yeah, I know, I know, you're shocked. But yes, I really do read 'paper' from time to time. Especially this type. It's an awesome neighborhood-outreach concept.



When I read Heather's compelling story about her fateful life in the inner-city (.pdf) and the blessing that God has turned it into... I decided to read some of her other articles online. Cool -- she IS online.

And check this out -- it turns out she's moved to Indiana. Indianapolis even. And she married this guy named Larry Wilson. And they're both on Facebook. And Twitter.

Wait... think about that a moment...

Had they NOT been so socially-networked, we wouldn't have met and I wouldn't be writing about him and you probably wouldn't be reading about him... or her.



And we wouldn't have known of this upcoming conference for WRITERS... November 7-8... here in Indianapolis.



And I wouldn't have known about Higher Grounds... a great little coffee-shop near Olio x 116th Street in Fishers.



And I wouldn't have met Pastor Brad LeRoy there -- he was just hanging out, studying. Brad is the planting pastor of Harvest Church, McCordsville. I remembered we'd done a piece on him back in Aug 2007 re their great new innovative idea that spoke near to my heart. (Remember, I only said 'NEAR'. LOL)

And lastly... I wouldn't have met 'John' as I was ready to leave. He had heard me mention the magic word...

'Twitter'.

OMG, don't get me started! LOL. Just mark your calendar for 9/27 and come be with us for Twitter brainstorming & training at 'Ask Anything Saturday'.

posted by IndyChristian @ 5:03 PM