Their site describes this as:

Urban Camouflage deals with the question how to camouflage oneself and one’s identity in the urban space. Our costumes are inspired by the «ghillie suits», the military camouflage suit. It was an adventure to wear the suit in the stores because of the conflicts with the employees, the reaction of the customers and also to see the pretty well camouflage effect in a real situation.

Make sure to check out the video below as well.

Visit their site for many more photos and video: urbancamouflage.de

Click here to view the embedded video.

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This raises the question, How do we, as the church, stay relevant in the info age?

I understand some people have strong theological opposition to the Internet and the progression of technology. If that’s you, the rest of this post will just upset you. If not, keep reading.

First we have to embrace technology, and quickly. The church has gotten into the habit of letting technological things blow past us until its obvious we need to get on board with them.

So what does this embracing look like?

• Dynamic Organization websites (with databases and interactivity)
• Fully utilization of digital delivery whenever possible (Content Re-purposing!)
• Creating digital, gospel based, content people under 30 want to experience
• Digital Transparency of leadership (through personal websites/blogs/etc.)

The list could keep going but for the sake of brevity these are the big three ways the Church is extremely lacking overall in the info age.

Lets re-cap on `the Church` for a second. The Church is the largest organization in the world (though with many fractions within its structure). The Christian faith is the most widely accepted faith in the world. OK, got that?

Now why does the Church with these incredible numbers have such a pathetic presence in the Information

Age? Priorities…

Shifting our priorities

As Christians, and even more-so as Church leaders, we have an obligation to steward our resources. So lets be smart about how we use our money and people.

The goal set for for us at the end of the gospels is to proclaim the good news to everyone. With technology this can be easier than ever with the Internet. The world is funding programs like OLPC which has delivered 725,000 laptops to children the world over (list in next paragraph). Intel also is in the market with their classmate PC and just sold 500,000 laptops to Portugal yesterday.

If we want to reach out to countries like Uruguay, Peru,  Haiti, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Mexico what better way then to capture the imagination and hearts of the youth these Million+ laptops will reach. They will all have Internet access, and the laptops hope to close the technological divide.

To do this we have to invest in technologies and content (Content is King!) to reach the world.

Why can’t we do virtual discipleship with children in countries and cities we can seldom reach with physical people?

To do this

We have to do it well, this means investing some serious money, efforts in doing this. I believe that there needs to be another movement like the Wesleyan bible translators for the Information age. Their goal will be to make the Gospel accessible and appealing to Internet viewers.

Ironic thing here is that to pull this off, we’ll need those ‘weird’ creative people the Church has been so good at pushing away.

What role do you think the internet should play with the Church? Or Church with the internet?

Photo: Can’t Touch this by Foxtongue