Second Life Used For Marketing & Company Meetings

So I read a couple of articles recently about Second Life being used for purposes beyond game / role playing. BusinessWeek: The (Virtual) Global Office Companies are using SL for staff meetings, leadership training and get togethers for staff that are around the globe or widely dispersed and it's difficult for them to gather. It is being used to create a sense of community. Teenagers to take embarrassing ailments to Second Life doctors || The Guardian "Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through the Second Life website yesterday designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or a drug problem. Real doctors will log on and offer advice to their anonymous patients. What both will see is an image of a consulting room with a doctor and a typical patient." Of course all this began to prompt my interest in how the church utilizes SL, which seems to be in a very limited way at this point. Making the big splash with is is LifeChurch.tv which has a SL virtual campus (see an intro video below). I also found a SL Anglican service. LifeChurch.tv Second Life Promo The First Anglican Church Service in Second Life Is virtual church an option for you? Do you think anyone might attend a virtual church and because of that experience possibly get involved in a real church? Do they need to attend a actual church to be a follower of Christ or is attending a virtual church enough? I suppose if one was going to feed the poor, we would want to feed the actual poor not the virtual poor. I wonder if you could hold a Second Life Alpha Course or Bible Study? UPDATE: The SL Anglican Church has a web site.