Postlude: Searching and Proclaiming Throughout the Cyber-World

Advent is a time of searching. Whether you are Mary and Joseph searching for a place at the inn, the shepherds searching in Bethlehem after hearing the angel proclamation, or the wise men searching for the child after seeing the star, we are all searching. And once we find the child, we proclaim him Messiah.

Our modern, cyber-based world allows people worldwide to search and proclaim in new and unusual ways. At Christ the King, we have found the Christ Child and have continued to proclaim him Messiah throughout the cyber-world using our Advent Devotions. During our first two weeks of publication, 183 unique visitors read this web edition of our Advent Devotions. Our U.S. visitors – from Cleveland, Chicago, Minnesota, San Francisco, Denver, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas City, St. Louis, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Boston, New York, Atlanta, Southern California, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia– came and viewed an average of nearly three devotions per visit. Our international visitors came from Jakarta, Indonesia, Vienna, Austria, Bombay, India, and Hong Kong, China.

We also sent our Advent Devotions out each day to 39 subscribers via email. While we know that many of these are members or friends of Christ the King, a few remain unknown to us – they simply visited the devotions web site and asked to be added to subscription list. We do know that the devotions emails were distributed far and wide – from Brooklyn, New York, to Ft. Worth, Texas, to Lakeside, Montana.

As we close the 2006 Advent Devotions, let us hope and pray that all of us – from those here in Great Falls, Virginia, to those located throughout the world – each day continue to search and find the Christ Child and then go away, like the shepherds, proclaiming him Messiah.