Recently this topic has come about in our family. In our ever changing world (at least so we think) we have the tendency to believe, or at least we stand ready to make the case for, having accessibility to our portable personal technologies wherever we are - including within the church.
Case for: Including the above thought, there are those of us, yours truly included, that are involved in a support role beyond the normal workday. For me, I'm a media & technology specialist in a local school. However, of late my support role has grown beyond my school to more of a district sort of role in that I well understand and am proactive towards (at least I prefer to consider myself as) the use and position of online curriculum to support kids, their academics (family members and teachers too) who have some special circumstances surrounding their life - we can talk about how this came about another time. Anyway, I've always believed that portable technology is able to bridge the gap between our need to do something and the time with which we have to do it - in other words, taking advantage of time and convenience. For these kids it's their accessibility to a regular classroom. For one reason or another (mostly health) there are kids who can't meet at normal class times during the normal business / school day and so we're leveraging technology (online curriculum) to reach them at a more convenient time. Many of these kids really have only evening and weekend hours available to them to work on their academics - and thus, need someone on the other end of the connection that can support their needs more readily than waiting until the next business (or school) day, forcing them to use valuable time to simply wait. During the day these kids are in doctors offices at appointments or having tests run while others, well, they've found themselves fulfilling the role of parent at a very early age so their daytime hours aren't really available to them, but the evenings and weekends usually are.
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