I'm excited about out new way I've found to bring together and share the great things our missionaries are posting online. A few of our missionaries are already blogging and I only see that growing. Putting what our missionaries say gets in front of more people is a natural progression of getting our missionaries connected more closely to their supporters. To that end, I've brought all the FIM blogs and news feeds that I'm currently aware of into one single place using Yahoo Pipes.
So this new service becomes one central place to come and see what FIM missionaries are thinking, seeing and doing. You can share in their celebrations of what God has done in and through them or stand beside them in support as they enter difficult times. You can also subscribe to this as a news/RSS feed for those of you who enjoy having information come to you rather than going fishing for it.
The FIM Missionary's Pipe is just a neat little piece to the puzzle. I'm looking forward to growing this service to the point where it may make sense to break it up into areas of the world or types of ministry.


I think it has mostly been a matter of the feed periodically "disappearing" - not available at all from time to time.
Thanks!
Let me know how that works for you. I've tried Yahoo! ! Pipes for similar purposes and have found they're just not reliable enough for what I want to do. I'd be curious to know how successful it is for you - maybe someday I'll give it another try!
I'd be curious what reliability issues you ran into.