Pete on March 3rd, 2011

Late night, deep slumber. The phone rings—never a good sign. “Hello?” “Hi…can you help? My computer’s dead!”

A relative calling from a thousand miles away, in a panic.

“What’s the problem?” “Well, it won’t boot. All I get is this message on my screen…”
Disk boot failure - Insert system disk and press Enter
Ouch. None of our remote [...]

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Pete on April 10th, 2009

The story below was written in June 2007, commemorating Pete’s accident ten years earlier (in 1997). We hope it is a blessing to you as we remember Jesus’ resurrection!

June 2007

How Much Can We Really Do?
Confessions of a “can-do” high tech wizard

Dum-De-Dum-Dum.[1]

Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true. The names have [...]

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Pete and Cecilia on March 12th, 2009

Let’s continue the SLTy (Spirit-Led Technology) evaluation process. In part one we described the transformation of a global conversation on making disciples, from the “what” questions concerning technologies to use, to the deeper “why” question of real needs and God’s perspective on the topic (disciple-making).

As you may remember, we began this analysis while preparing for [...]

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Pete on February 25th, 2009

Natural Disasters Reported 1900 - June 2008

Have you seen this graph in the news recently? (Click to see the original.) It shows “natural disasters reported, 1900 - 2008.” Al Gore has been using it to illustrate the harm being caused by Global Warming-but pulled it from his presentation a few days ago, as reported by [...]

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