This summer, I had the pleasure of meeting the Aparre family at Kenneth Jackson’s Camp Meeting at Dyersdale Baptist Church in Coldspring, Texas. We met again at a meeting of the South Central Texas Baptist Fellowship, and then our paths crossed once more at the Missions Conference at New Beginning […]
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Bob Hoffman: Missionary, Server Wrangler, and Reluctant Participant in the Collapse of Civilization Bob Hoffman is a veteran Independent Baptist missionary who looked at the Internet—an electronic wilderness populated by hackers, heretics, spambots, abandoned WordPress plugins, and people who still use “password123”—and declared, “This looks like a mission field.” Together […]
As missionaries to cyberspace, Maureen and I are always looking for practical ways to use technology to reach people with the truth of God’s Word. One of our newest projects is the development of an AI-powered chatbot for Baptist.org. The chatbot is being trained to answer questions using the information […]
The Internet has long provided missionaries and churches with opportunities to reach people who might never enter a church building. We are now exploring another way to extend that outreach: carefully designed artificial-intelligence chatbots placed on ministry websites. These chatbots allow visitors to ask questions in ordinary language and receive […]