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A few days ago, I launched a social networking site called Cathlimergent for Catholics and others who are participating in the Emerging Church Conversation. At midnight last night, I installed a widget to keep track of where our visitors are coming from. When people join Cathlimergent, it’s easy enough to know where they live but I also wanted to get some sense of who might be listening in on our conversation.

Below are the flags of the countries  and the names of the places from those first few hours. I thought I would freeze-frame these hours for posterity because my first impression was how so very small our world has become. My next impression was that I was literally watching the sun rise and set around the globe. (Place your cursor over each flag to see that country’s initials.)

If you are interested, you can click HERE and watch visitors come and go in real-time. One object lesson is that we need to behave in cyberspace. Another is that we should not too narrowly define participation in terms of active content contributors but should realize that the listening audience, however quiet or lurking, can be much larger than we might otherwise imagine and is an integral part of our global dialogue.

Here’s how the sun came up on Cathlimergent on one of the very first days of its presence in cyberspace:

Madurai, Tamil Nadu (India)

Tehran, Esfahan (Iran)

Philippine, Benguet

Chongqing (China)

Palembang (Indonesia)

Antipolo, Rizal (Phillipines)

Bombay, Maharashtra (India)

Singapore

Palembang (Indonesia)

Calcutta, West Bengal (India)

Johor Bahru, Johor (Malaysia)

Hilo, Hawaii

Middlewich, Cheshire (United Kingdom)

Islamabad (Pakistan)

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Malaya, Donets’ka Oblast’ (Ukraine)

Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan (Malaysia)

Algeria

Okinawa (Japan)

Killara, Victoria (Australia)

Warri, Rivers (Nigeria)

San Juan, Batangas (Phillipines)

Bombay, Maharashtra (India)

Fernando De La Mora, Central (Paraguay)

My Tho, Tien Giang (Viet Nam)

West Babylon, New York

Bacoor, Cavite (Phillipines)

Bangkok, Krung Thep (Thailand)

Beijing (China)

Central District (Hong Kong S.A.R., China)

Pune, Maharashtra (India)

Ephrata, Pennsylvania

San Antonio, Texas

Versailles, Kentucky

Oak Park, California

Toronto, Ontario

Warsaw, Warszawa (Poland)

Others in the Emerging Church Conversation

Agmergent (Assemblies of God).

Anglicans Fresh Expressions (Anglicans & Methodists in UK)

Baptimergent (Baptist)

Convergent Friends (Quakers)

Emerging Penetcostal

EmergeUMC (Methodist)

Emergent Village (ecumenical, USA)

Presbymergent (Presbyterian)