[CS-FSLUG] Geeky Prayer Prompters

[Jon Mark Allen]

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On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:42:11PM -0400, Ritchie, Josiah S. so eloquently stated:
> So we all have a bit of geek in our blood and a bit of Christ in our
> hearts. Here's a topic that should be of interest.
> 
> What is the most elegant geek way you can think of to send yourself
> reminders to pray for certain items on a regular basis? 
> 
> As an example: I'm about to have a kid (due June 5th). Let's assume that
> I'd like to pray daily for this child at some point in the hour the
> child was born. So if he/she is born at 9am, I'd want a reminder at 9
> wherever I am to pray. As I've been messing with Google Calendar's
> ability to send SMS reminders, I could setup a prayer calendar with a
> recurring appointment. This would send me a reminder of the event to my
> cell phone daily.
> 
> My Dad has setup appointments in Outlook that his PDA picks up and send
> him reminders in the same way I did with Google Calendar.
> 
> What other ways could we prompt ourselves to pray using the geek tools
> we enjoy?
> 
> JSR/
> 
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I did something similar for our youth SS teachers using cron.

Each week, they were to contact the students in their class (small
classes) and mid-week they received an email reminder sent from a cron
job.  Very easy to use and reliable (esp. since the cron job ran on a
server at work in the data center... :-)  

This would work for any device that can receive email.  It was very easy
to manage, too.

JM

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