It was a typical day.  I was tweet-tweet-tweeting away, annoying many with my constant jibba-jabba and feeling the burn of another Qwitter when a new email popped into my box:

Congratulations!  You’ve got a sub-lease on a place to stay for your first Winter Semester @ DTS but we’ll have to boot you out for the 2nd… Good luck!

Legendary lameness.

What was a poor seminary student to do?

I imagined curling up under a bridge in downtown Dallas trying to stay warm under my half of my heavy textbooks as the other half were being torn and thrown into a makeshift campfire…

And so I tweeted my need.  Here’s what happened:

In less than 24 hours I was offered housing by 5 different people and had confirmed locations for crashing with backups ready and on standby.  I received 4 personal phone calls from my tweet’o'verse and potential shuttle rides to and from the airport.

In addition, a ChurchTechCamp unconference movement was established within minutes because it was made public that I would be entering Dallas airspace from December 28th through January 9th.  People began getting pumped.

A few tweets later we had an official offer from an established business to not only host the unconference but provide the most necessary part: victuals.

A Facebook page was setup, phone calls were made, and logistics were being ironed out.  This all happened in less than 24 hours… and it was made possible by the Twitter.

Want to know something ever cooler?  All the offers for couch space, rides, and meetups came from people that I’ve never even met in the real.

Insanity.

I think the question of whether “community” can be established through online mediums can be safely put to rest.

Amen and amen.