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[[Image:wikiProject.png|thumb|600px 500px | '''Wikis can be used to document church projects'''. These can be used as "time capsules" providing information, reflection, and historical significance. '''Mind-Maps can be incorporated into the WIKI to show up-to-date status of project's progres'''s.]]
:'''This "need to connect" has now extended from educational institutions into our homes and our everyday lives:'''
===The Wrong "Ties That Bind"===
[[Image:wikiMeeting.png|thumb|600px500px|'''Wiki Meetings can be held over longer periods of time, and allow busy individuals to contribute from the comfort of their own home'''. Minutes of those meetings would automatically be documented online - no note-taker required. Wikis can also be used to '''"better prepare meeting content or concerns" to help reduce face-to-face meeting time'''. ]]
:'''Unfortunately, people are instinctively <u>hesitant</u> or <u>protective</u> when faced with exposing their work or contribution to "public editing".'''
::'''Fear of Change'''
:::''It is a fact that '''most people are hesitant to accept change''' (even if it will benefit them in the future)''.[[Image:wikiInstrucion.png|thumb|600px500px|'''WIKIs can be used to provide immediate up-to-date training procedures'''<br />(for example: computer lab startup/shutdown) ]]
::'''Fear of Commitment (especially time)'''
:::''Time-strapped individuals do not treat this "learning curve" in on-line collaboration as an investment that will reduce volunteer time (especially when applied to database building and remote time-flexible meetings).
===Hidden Opportunity Costs===
[[Image:computerResource.png|thumb|600px500px|'''Since WIKI contents are accessible via the Internet, elements can be "woven" into a comprehensive and customized resource (for example: a web-page)'''. ]]
:'''Westminster United Church can survive without WIKIs'''. Technical aspects of this church (in terms of computers) only make up tiny elements of what the church does. In reality, it is the <u>contribution</u> of the church <u>members</u> and <u>volunteers</u> that keep the church operating.