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The Tech Poverty Fighter: Christianity Today Profiles Andrew Sears & TechMission

TechMission's Executive Director, Andrew Sears, explains in Christianity Today's latest online issue why Christians need to use technology to fight poverty. "Christians often resist technology," he said. "We are fighting battles against injustice, but are using antiquated tools. It's like the other side has tanks and jet planes, and Christians are fighting with sticks."

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TechMission Featured in Religion Today Article: Prayer Key to Boston's Recovery

Boston Marathon Comfort K9s TechMission's BostonMarathonSamaritans.org was featured in a Religion Today news story yesterday. Andrew Sears, TechMission's Executive Director, was quoted as saying, "In the morning I cried again as I was reminded of the parable of the Good Samaritan helping someone who had been beaten up and left for dead, and I thought, 'That is what Christians should be doing right now. So, within a few hours, we had a website up and partnerships with church networks across Boston to help the victims."

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Prayer Key to Boston's Recovery

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Christian Response to the Boston Marathon Bombing: BostonMarathonSamaritans.org

Churches in Boston are responding to provide support for victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing through a website called BostonMarathonSamaritans.org.

The website is set up as a partnership of TechMission, the Emmanuel Gospel Center and the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston who partner with hundreds of churches in the Boston area.

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BostonMarathonSamaritans.org

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Michael Liimatta Featured in Faces of the New Economy

Michael Liimatta, director of City Vision College, was recently featured in a Faces of the New Economy in Kansas City profile by the Partnership for Technology Innovation.

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Faces of the New Economy Profile

Read the TechMission Case Study

Harvard Business School has widely popularized helping students learn by publishing case studies. TechMission was recently featured in a Case Study by three Northeastern Professors, Susan Seiloff, Ray, Kennunen and Robert Young. The case titled "TechMission: Jesus, Justice and Technology study was published in the Case Research Journal. You can read the case study here.

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TechMission's 2012 Annual Report Now Available

TechMission's 2012 Annual Report is now available.

In 2012, TechMission:

* funded 65 full-time interns to ministries, serving 3,642 at-risk youth through TechMission Corps

* provided accredited college courses with 281 student registrations through City Vision College

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TechMission 2012 Annual Report

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A Vision for the Christian Social Graph

What if every Christian could be connected with the needs and resources to maximize their calling on earth? That is the vision of the Christian Social Graph.

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TechMission: Connecting People to the Poor

In the past 10 years, technology and the Internet has been transforming society. As the world becomes more connected electronically, we become more disconnected relationally. America is now more segregated than it was before the Civil Rights movement, and there are now more African-Americans in prisons and under the U.S. correctional system than there were slaves.

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Volunteering 2.0: Faith, Family, Technology

TechMission intern Becca Nelson describes experiences in coordinating volunteers without ever meeting face to face, using http://www.christianvolunteering.org.

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Family Life Network Interviews TechMission Staff

Executive Director Andrew Sears and Volunteer Coordinator Becca Nelson were recently interviewed by the Family Life Network with the hopes of connecting even more listeners to opportunities.

The podcast is now online, available at FLN's website: http://www.fln.org/fln-news/podcast/detail/people-making-a-difference--tech-mission/

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