Urban Communities

An interesting kind of church it is.

About 20,000 people attend Willow Creek every week, making it one of the largest churches in the nation. And like other so-called "megachurches"—defined by average weekly attendance of more than 2,000 people—technology is essential to almost every phase of its mission. There are perhaps 1,800 megachurches in the U.S., including a subset of truly gargantuan institutions whose attendance can approach 20,000, or more. And the bigger they are, the more they tend to rely on technology.

Click here to see a short music video that gives a quick glimpse into modern Brazil and the favelas.

I reacted to the article and resonated with the last Nita Goyal's post on Brain Drain at the Digital Vision program. Let me convey my vision on the topic of the diaspora starting with three very close stories: