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44 Orality Journal, Volume 3, Number 1, 2014 we from the more wealthy parts of the world don’t think twice about using? These are just a few of the questions that need to be asked to help ensure the mobile ministry you implement is appropriate to your setting. Keith Williams locally available and utilized technologies and services helps ensure uptake of your ministry as well as gives the potential for local reproduction of it. b. Socio-economic Appropriateness What makes for “appropriate Use technologies and services that the people can afford. It doesn’t technology” or “appropriate” mobile ministry? While numerous matter that smartphones are books have been written being sold and 4G Use the technologies about the subject of service is available that the majority appropriate technology, if the majority of of people you are let me share a few issues people you want to seeking to reach you need to consider to reach can’t afford have available to either the device or the ensure that any mobile them and are using. ministry you implement is data. Do your best to ensure that your mobile ministry “appropriate”: accounts for the people’s financial a. Technological situation and allows them to be Appropriateness blessed without undue financial Use the technologies that the duress. majority of people you are seeking to reach have available c. Literacy/Orality to them and are using. Does Appropriateness your proposed mobile ministry Don’t use tools that your require high speed Internet for audience prefer not to use due users to experience it without to orality or can’t access due developing extreme frustration? to illiteracy (I know, this isn’t If there is only a spotty second news to readers of the Orality generation telephone network Journal!). There’s not much the people you are seeking to point to implementing an reach won’t benefit from your SMS/texting outreach among a outreach. While Facebook may people who are largely illiterate. be the thing where you are, you’ll Conversely, implementing an connect with many more in outreach that uses culturally China if you use QZone. Using appropriate audio stories and