I met Andre Yee about two years ago when I was just getting into blogging. He still blogs over at Every Square Inch about “Conversations on the Glory of Christ in Business and Culture,” and he’s really good.

The Social Media Prophet

Andre was one of the first bloggers we hired to write for TheHighCalling.org. (You can read his two articles here.) But lately I think he’s been too busy with his nonprofit start up to write for us!

Andre Yee is like some kind of Social Media Prophet. I’m not joking here. He’s a wiki Moses. The church has has been captive for too long, and he’s leading us into the wilderness of the net. I’m not talking about a series of brochure ware nonsense. Or clumsy facebook groups. Or even webzines.

Andre knows where the wind is blowing–and he’s raised the sail.

Marshall McLuhen warned that the medium is the message. A lot of folks have used McLuhen’s cliche to warn us about how easily computers dehumanize us. Take that thinking to its logical end and we all become obese spacemen in floating chairs waiting for Wall-E to wake us up.

But Andre understands the gospel message is more powerful than any medium.

That’s my interpretation of his Open Source Mission at any rate. Their first major project is the gospel translations.

Open Source Mission

Andre says that nearly 60% of all evangelicals worldwide are in the areas of Africa, Latin America, and Asia. “But they suffer from a lack of biblically sound teaching material.” He goes on to explain that the current model of translation is expensive and limited in its reach. “Few books ever reach worldwide audiences, and some language groups never qualify for any translations at all.”

But you don’t need to read what Andre says. You can see it yourself. He’s been on me for months now to catch this vision with him. Sorry, Andre, I just didn’t get it. My faith is weak, I guess.

But this video helped me see what he’s talking about. It literally opened my eyes. Now I get it.

If you’re like me, you need to watch the video. Watch it. Then think about how you can help.

If you’re like me, you can’t be one of the translators. But you can help promote Andre’s vision. The Wiki Moses needs us! We can help “proclaim the gospel to all peoples in all languages to the glory of God.”

How You Can Help

I’m not talking about a big investment here. I’m talking about simple word of mouth.

• Put a badge on your sidebar. (I did!)
• Write a post about Open Source Mission. (I did!).
• Use these images from flickr. (I did!)
• Send an email to your friends. Or email the video from YouTube.
• Embed the video on your blog. (I did!)
• Favorite the video on YouTube. (I did!)
• Share the video on Facebook. Just click here. (I did!)

Tell others. Do it. I’ll make a social media press release here in a minute that has all of the tools in one spot to make this easy. (Update: here’s a link to the social media press release.)

And if you still haven’t watched that video, here it is: