“It’s the one thing people do more than anything else on their phone.” More than 1 billion people have now downloaded the Messenger Android app, and Facebook and others such as What’s App are making messaging the focus of their aggressive strategy for growth.

“The messaging era is definitely now,” says David Marcus, who gives leadership to Facebook’s Messenger app. and they discovered a way they could work together on a major gospel-centered project, a messaging app called VOKE. Pablo connected with Indigitous member Aaron Thomson in Orlando, Fla. His parents were staff members with Cru and told him he might find what he was looking for in Indigitous. Then one day a 14-year-old in the youth group Pablo helps lead heard him talking about his idea. “My church has people with a variety of technical skills, but I am the only software developer.' 'I wondered how I could bring us all together for one purpose.” Pablo soon developed a desire to bring his skills and his passions together in one endeavor. “I became a Christian thanks to working in the digital world,” he says, referring to a colleague who helped him in his spiritual journey. Pablo is a software developer from San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador.

He’s a member of Indigitous, a movement of Christians who are passionate about making Jesus known through using digital strategies. The digital realm is a new mission field calling for a new breed of missionaries.

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