First person: Artificial intelligence, trauma healing and the key to reaching the unreached

In Silicon Valley, I recently got a glimpse of the future of missions — and it is not what I thought it would be.

During the first week of February, about 50 missionaries, technologists and funders gathered at the historic Hayes Mansion in San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. The gathering, hosted by FaithTech and Strategic Resource Group, called itself an “Integration Sprint.” The problem the group hoped to answer is this: “How do we proclaim the gospel in MENA [Middle East and North Africa, a predominantly Muslim region] where direct evangelism may be surveilled, culturally rejected, or unable to be heard because of unprocessed trauma?”

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