Genesis

Genesis – when a slide show just isn’t good enough

Last Friday we had a Kiev-premier at our family night where the whole YWAM Kiev-family come together to worship and listen to a message. Yesterday was special since we were not just by ourselves, but we were connected to a YWAM-base in the beautiful area of Dalarna in Sweden (if you have ever seen the classic red wooden Swedish horse with beautiful hand painted patterns on you know something from Dalarna, the horses are called Dalarna häste and are hand made in Dalarna, a picturesque area in Sweden). We were doing worship together with our Swedish friends through a clever invention called Genesis. It works a bit like a giant web-cam where we can hear and see what’s going on in Sweden and vice versa. We have a massive screen installed, and the quality of sound and picture is remarkably good.

Our Swedish friend was leading the worship, playing her piano in Sweden whilst Rachel and Anna were playing guitars in Kiev, and then we were all singing. I think we were something like 20 nations gathered worshiping. It was beautiful! A little foretaste of the worship party we’ll encounter when we all meet on the new earth some day soon!

During the Discipleship Training School (www.ywam.org) we’ll be leading starting this coming Wednesday, we’ll be using Genesis to have teaching from Youth With A Mission’s founder, Loren Cunningham, who’ll be in Lausanne, Switzerland. What a cool tool!! I love being part of a mission, where we have a founder who says that we as a mission need to be cutting edge with all new technology. Way too often Christians are characterized by being at least a couple of decades after “the world” when it comes to technology. Why shouldn’t we use the tools that are available to advance God’s Kingdom and bring more unity to the Body of Christ?