Ian Buckley is the Associate Pastor of Orange County Worship Center in Santa Ana, California. Pastor Ian, among other things, oversees their fourteen workstation network. It really facilitates ministry. Email on a Global Scale More and more, churches are extending their email capabilities through the Internet. Originally created to facilitate government communications during the Cold War, the Internet is a cultural revolution in the making.
Email is sent literally anywhere in the world at the speed of light.
All from a local phone call. Ken Emert, Minister of Administration for Scottsdale Bible Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, has put the Internet at the fingertips of their church staff in a unique way. Rather than pulling separate phone lines to each desktop and adding modems to each of the fifty-two computers on their network, he has centralized the process through a computer called Instant Internet. Instant Internet allows anyone on the church's internal network to simply click a mouse button to access the Internet. Then, through their internal church network, the user is connected to the Internet through the Instant Internet computer.