Applications for use of SMS and txt msgN

1. Here is a site which describes uses of SMS in different contexts. You will find the multiple uses really "innovative." Visit the site which is "Textually.org: All about texting, SMS and MMS" at http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/cat_sms_and_students.htm

2. Here is an article which describes how SMS has been used to break student apathy...
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/296363.htm

3. Here is another site - this time, one which reports a competition held to generate poems written in txt msg form. The article begins:

The message is the medium
Two of Britain's foremost poets, Peter Sansom and UA Fanthorpe, assess the creative output from your mobile phones in a competition that has inspired first-time and seasoned bards alike. Here are the poets' judgments and the winning entries...

First prize winner's entry
txtin iz messin,
mi headn'me englis,
try2rite essays,
they all come out txtis.
gran not plsed w/letters shes getn,
swears i wrote better
b4 comin2uni.
&she's african
Hetty Hughes

Read on at http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,481985,00.html

WHAT FURTHER APPLICATIONS FOR MINISTRY CAN WE DRAW FROM THESE REPORTS?