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How Christian Techs in Silicon Valley are Giving Their Best Talents for God's Kingdom"The idea is that God would fill us as technologists, developers and designers with His Holy Spirit to do His Holy work." -Kevin Kim
As a minister at Menlo Park Presbyterian, Kevin Kim watched Bay area churches miss countless opportunities to learn from those filling their pews. "Within the 3,000 people that are sitting in our pews there's so much human capital, there's so much potential," Kim told CBN News. "We have leaders in politics, leaders in government, leaders in medicine, leaders in technology, leaders in finance—but then when you try and take a look at how are we deploying these people: we're asking them to lead a VBS or usher people to their seats," he explained. That realization led him to learn more about people's gifts and how they could help bring innovation to the Church. "The Church needs to be more creative, needs to be more disruptive, I mean God deserves the best of our imagination," said Kim. Hosting "Hack-A-Thons" for the Kingdom
"Our first one we brought in 250 of our friends who were designers and developers at these major tech companies," remembered Kim. 21st Century Solutions for Age-Old Problems "The ideas and the product that they came up with they were pretty amazing. In fact, so much so, that this leader of a major Christian tech company who happened to be there, wanted to check it out, he said what you guys did in a weekend, my guys couldn't do in six months," Kim continued. Kim, Ahlsten and their friends hosted these events for five more years. During that time, they came up with thousands of ideas—but noticed they were beginning to lose momentum because of a disconnect in getting those ideas to market. Losing Momentum, and Shifting Gears Neil did that by going out on his own and launching the faith-based tech company called Carpenters Code.
Carpenters Code developed a prayer app called "Abide." Meanwhile, Kim took what he had learned and started his own company focused on missional tech work. It's called Basil Technologies. Turning Great Ideas into Real-Life Solutions Each Monday night, Christian volunteers from some of Silicon Valley's top tech companies talk about issues facing Christian organizations. They harness their creativity, innovation and expertise to come up with solutions and then they implement them. One of Basil's current projects is a partnership with the International Justice Mission. "We had IJM come in and we did a brain storm with them which was led by one of our team members who is an expert in design thinking. In this brain storm session, we discovered from International Justice Mission that these perpetrators of human trafficking were using technologies for their evil purposes. So, a lot of our people who work in tech were like, 'Man that can't happen, we want to do something about it,'" said Kim. The team hopes by making major tech companies aware, they can come up with effective solutions together. At only about a year old, Basil has plans to eventually expand. For now, however, they plan to fine tune their process and slowly spread the word, by putting some of tech's best and brightest to work—for the Kingdom.
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