Open the floodgates, alert the media…Tacoma YFC staff are on the Twitter prowl!  This morning at our monthly All Staff Tacoma YFC meeting at the Tillicum Youth & Family Center I talked about the importance, and opportunity, of increasing “mission awareness” (thank you Mike Olson…also known as @viaticum on Twitter) through the use of Twitter. So, I encouraged our staff to try it out and sign up. Last week I “required” our Core Ministry Leaders (Darrin Miller @darrincitylife , Jeff Clare @fostercarejeff , Leslie Yohann @lesyohann , Chrisy Wachtler @chrisywachtler , and Ken Schmidtke @kschmidtke) to sign up and start “tweeting” blog posts, ministry stories and updates…and they’re actually doing it–even Jeff Clare! (sorry, Jeff, couldn’t resist even though you are now more technologically adept than many of our staff

In 2008 Twitter had 6 million members and in 2009 that number jumped 200% to 18 million. I figured it was about time for Tacoma YFC to jump on board (yes, the cutting edge technology practician that I am…only behind a couple of years).

I’m hoping that more of our TYFC staff will sign up and use this great tool of Twitter as well as Facebook to connect with people across Pierce County and share what God is doing in the lives of young people through the ministries of Tacoma YFC. Oh, and if you would like to follow me on Twitter you can find me @bobbyarkills !