Well, I don’t know about Toledo, but Salt Lake City’s Mormon Church in Utah is moving forward with its plan to arm missionaries with iPad minis and broaden their proselytizing to social media. A test program that began last fall with 6,500 missionaries serving in the United States and Japan went well, prompting the initiative’s expansion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said in a news release this week. Church leaders expect to have the specially configured mobile devices in the hands of more than 32,000 missionaries by early 2015.
There is no shortage of reports detailing the use of iPads in education, but this is something a little bit new. SeattleTimes is reporting that the Mormon Church is planning to provide 32,000 missionaries with iPad minis to help them in their efforts to proselytize.
The pertinent portion of the video begins at the six-minute and 18-second mark.
The Church’s full press release on the matter can be seen here.
