Many of us in SEND have benefited from the webinars that have been offered on a regular basis by The Mission Exchange and CrossGlobal Link. For those unfamiliar with the vocabulary, a webinar is a short seminar (generally about an hour long) offered through the Internet. Since missionaries are generally located thousands of kilometers from the typical places where mission training seminars, workshops and conferences are held, we have few opportunities for attending these training events. Rarely do we have a chance to hear what missionaries and mission leaders from other organizations have learned, other than by reading a book or during our “furloughs”. The Internet of course has changed all that, and webinars are one way where a subject matter expert can share his expertise with an audience spread across the globe.
For those who are unfamiliar with The Mission Exchange and CrossGlobal Link, they were two different evangelical mission organizations, and used be called the Evangelical Foreign Mission Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association respectively. SEND USA and SEND Canada had associate memberships in The Mission Exchange, and a full membership in CrossGlobal Link. Under that arrangement, SEND members from USA & Canada were able to watch these webinars at no cost if we watched them “live”. But in the past, downloading recordings was not free, although SEND U had purchased some of the webinars, and could distribute them within the mission.
