PUT THE WORLD IN PERSPECTIVE WITH GOOGLE EARTH
Have you tried Google Earth yet? "The idea is simple. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Satellite images and local facts zoom into view."

"You can zoom from space to street level instantly and then pan or jump from place to place, city to city, even country to country."

"This is a 3D model of the real world, based on real satellite images." (blurbs from the Google Earth site) 

How might you use Google Earth as a missions resource? How about showing your Sunday school class what the neighborhoods look like in Bamako, Mali? Or giving your congregation a sense of the terrain in Uganda? Or what it's like to island hop in Japan or Indonesia? What about using the program to take your children's Sunday school or VBS on a "virtual globe trotting trip" to each of the places your missionaries serve? Or inviting visiting missionaries to give your missions committee a tour of where they live and work using the program?

These are just a few ideas. Take a few minutes to check out the program, and we're sure you'll think of many more applications for missions education. You can download the program for free at http://earth.google.com/.