Keeping the Lines of Communication Open

People often talk about where they were when some important event in history occurred. Think of it as the “Where were you when Kennedy was shot?” phenomenon. My answer to that one is that I wasn’t born yet. But I do know exactly where I was when I learned that Elvis had died. Safeway. Or when the Challenger exploded. My high school locker. It is my belief that our brains hold onto this sort of information because we never know when we’ll need to chit-chat with someone at a party. We recently added a new question to our dinner party ice-breaker conversation. What were you doing on October 4, 2021 when the world lost Facebook for almost six hours? 

You might have seen the memes exaggerating the trauma of a Facebookless world and comparing it to life as a pioneer. Funny, right? While recognizing the humor or people’s reactions to being forced to do things like, oh, work and interact with the world around them, the Facebook outage wasn’t entirely a laughing matter for Sowers4Pastors. 

The ministry heavily relies on Facebook as a means of communicating with supporters. Many people wait until they see a Facebook post to mosey over to the blog. Trish also frequently uses Messenger to communicate with individual supporters. Trish recognizes that a lot of people have left Facebook in recent months and the Great Facebook Outage of 2021 provided the perfect opportunity to reevaluate things. 

In a world without Facebook, whether by your choice or by some big ol’ technical glitchy-glitch stuff, the main thing supporters need to communicate is Trish’s email address. Here it is. Are you ready? Trish@Sowers4Pastors.com . Cool, huh? You won’t have to use a lot of brain bandwidth to remember that one. 

The second thing people can do to keep the stream of communication flowing is to subscribe to the Sowers4Pastors monthly newsletter. You can do that through Trish’s handy-dandy email, or, if you have a flair for the ironic, you can request to subscribe through a Facebook message. 

The third way to communicate is by using the Contact Us page on the website. Be forewarned that the response time is not quite as swift and that using this page doesn’t automatically sign you up for the newsletter. So, you should probably direct your focus to email and newsletter. It’s always good to have a backup to the backup communication plans, though.

So, what were you doing on October 4, 2021 when the world lost Facebook for almost six hours? Let us know in a comment below!  

-posted by Christi.