What's important to us' Another potential barrier is the blatant pitches for money that people often associate with televangelists. So Elder steers clear of fundraising on the site. Instead, he sends out a regular newsletter to those who request it, with updates about the ministry and its needs. Only a small fraction is from Web site visitors he's never met. It's a matter of scaling down how we live so we can do what's important to us.
Elder is well aware of the limits of technology.
Even though I do an Internet ministry, I'm not dependent on the Net to get my message out. God is interested in the hearts of people, and he will use any means possible to reach as many as possible before the end comes. If my Web server goes down, it's frustrating. But God will still break through to people's hearts. Before there was a World Wide Web, there was a worldwide God.