We live in an age where digital connectivity feels as essential as food and water. Many of this world’s evils have exploited the opportunities presented by technology, and there are big questions still to be answered about privacy, protecting the vulnerable and technology’s impact on our personal relationships.
However, when aligned with God's Kingdom values, technology becomes a powerful tool for His glory. New ideas can get the gospel into the hands of new people in creative ways, support Christian’s to follow Jesus and help with some of humanity’s enduring problems in Jesus’ name.
Here’s three partners, gathered under our Tech and Innovation cause cross, who are making waves in their corner of the Kingdom:
1. Discipleship Tech
Best known for its popular app PrayerMate, this charity is having a big impact by providing people with technology to help them to follow Jesus well, and in so doing to change their communities and the world.
PrayerMate (an app to help organise your prayer life) has had over 600,000 downloads, with 1.6 million items being prayed for each month! Users can add prayer requests for themselves, family and friends, and a list of points for each prayer session is then generated. A particularly powerful feature is the ability to ‘subscribe’ to releases from other people or organisations – for example, users are helped to pray in an informed way by adding OpenDoors’ updates into their prayer schedules.
Excitingly, Discipleship Tech have just launched their latest project, The Serpent and the Seed, a mobile game that helps Christians and people with no faith immerse themselves in the story of the Bible.
2. CREATIVenergie
Moving from spiritual to humanitarian applications, CREATIVenergie is developing technology to bring safe energy to those without it in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
By providing smart but sustainable energy from readily available resources, CREATIVenergie have big ambitions to impact life for millions of people, making simple acts such as cooking meals or walking home safer.
While solar power is a more obvious choice, this energy can also come from unexpected sources – such as their “Poo power” project, which uses animal dung to provide biogas for cooking! Since Covid, they have also added a project to develop a portable oxygen concentrator to be used in medical care for conditions like pneumonia, powered by renewables.
3. Missional Generation
Missional Generation take a slightly different approach. As well as developing AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality) technology to share the gospel or build up believers, Missional Generation employ youth and children’s workers to bring this technology into schools in an engaging and fresh way.
Focussed on the north of England, Missional Generation also loves to support young Christians and organisations to develop their own technology ambitions from ideas to reality.
To find more charities working to use technology to share the gospel, deepen faith and meet people’s practical needs, go to our Tech and Innovation Causefinder page.
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James Bishop
James is our Digital Marketing Manager and works within our Purpose team to connect Christians to the causes they care about and to inspire them to live out the freedom that active generosity offers. He works on website content and email newsletters, advertising on social media and making sure people using search engines can find us. James also contributes to campaigns such as 40acts and the Generosity Report.
Before joining Stewardship in 2025, James worked in marketing departments of all sizes, from a biotech startup to a large civil engineering consultancy and most recently a learning disability charity.
James lives in Surrey and serves in a local church as a director of their non-profit community café and on their AV team. James is reluctantly making a middle-age transition from football to golf and loves making homemade pizza and good coffee.
