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Why Every Missionary Should Podcast – TAM 12


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One of the things that I have previously written about on my web-site is the importance of us telling the story of what God is doing in our ministry and life. As full-time volunteer missionaries there is the additional need for us to maintain regular communication with our supporters and sponsors as they are invested in our ministry and lives. I believe that podcasting is a valuable way for us to do that

The best place to go if you are wanting to start a podcast is The School of Podcasting by David Jackson. There you will found many hours of useful advice through the articles and podcast episodes that David Jackson has produced.

Usually I would not recommend trying to use a free service for podcasting, but a way that you could get your feet wet, with no financial outlay, would be using a free service called AudioBoo. Their free service gives you three minutes of recording for free and you can make those recordings using many different ways, including:

  • iPhone, iPod and iPad apps
  • Android app
  • Nokia app
  • Telephone
  • eMail a recording
  • Direct recording from the website
  • Upload a recording to the website
  • While three minutes may not sound like a lot of time, if you are deliberate with that time you can communicate quite a lot.

    Using another free service like Google Feedburner you can then set it up so that your podcast can be accessed through iTunes or even have your subscribers updated via e-mail when a new podcast is available.

    Sample AudioBoo Recording from my iPod Touch

    listen to ‘Testing out Audio Boo for Missionary Support Raising’ on Audioboo

    If you decide to get serious about podcasting then let me know and I would love to help get you set-up for podcasting with a WordPress installation with proper media hosting…

    A few weeks ago I was a bit shocked by the following sign that I saw next to a travellator / autowalk. Listen to the podcast to find out why …

    Check out the new Google+ YWAM Community.

    The last podcasts that Justin Long listened to are:

    • Car Talk – Click n Clack
    • HBR IdeaCast – Harvard Business Review
    • Tomorrow, December 14, we get our new house! We hope to be moved in by Christmas as long as things go smoothly with the delivery of our shipment and appliances…

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