Many have assumed over the years that the little i in iGo Global came to be after the not so hostile takeover of our culture by iPod, iPhone, iTunes, etc. Many have been wrong.

Once and for all, let the record show that the iPod was released into our world on October 23, 2001. iWitness Ministries became our official name in November of 2000. Boom.

There was no such thing in those days as apple leaks. We simply thought it looked cool to say i-Witness and emphasize the Witness and not the i. After seeing how ridiculous it was to try to get our teams into closed countries with that name, we soon changed things over to iGo Global. The rest, as they say, is history.

So I guess you could say that iGo was cool before Apple figured out how to be cool. Maybe they copied us? Think about that for a second. You could say that, but we won’t. We don’t like to toot our own horn.

But one thing is for sure. We can’t take credit for everything. As creative and inventive as you might think we are, there are some things that just came about before we were even around.

Like the box.

Credit for the first cardboard box is given to some British folk back in 1817, which not coincidentally was only 24 years after William Carey left for India to later become known as the father of modern missions. Some Germans also produced a cardboard box in 1817, but they won some soccer tournament this year so we are giving this one to England.

I can’t help but wonder if those Brits back in the day had any idea how much they had changed the world. Did they know that years later people would be able to put at least a dozen donuts in a box and take them home? Could they have imagined the greatness of having a stranger show up at your doorstep with an extra-large steaming hot pizza in a box? Surely they didn’t anticipate the convenience of carrying new shoes out of the store in a shoebox? How else would we ever get our shoes home? Did they envision how people would covet great boxes when moving ?

They might have actually tapped the brakes on their whole commercial box invention had they had the foreknowledge to see Pinterest box ideas.

No, we didn’t invent the box here at iGo. Even so, we are bound and determined to take something great and make it even awesome-er.

BREAKING: iGo Global introduces Launch Box for 2015!

Launch Box is a mission experience designed specifically for youth groups that will ultimately launch your youth group to a life on mission in your hometown and beyond.

Of course you need more info. Get the complete picture and everything else you need on our official Launch Box page.

But for now, we simply ask you to spread the word. Tell your youth minister. Tell your friends. Tell the social media world! iGo is doing something brand new. It’s coming in 2015. It’s Launch Box and you don’t want to miss it!

Launch Box: Don’t just check the box. Launch it!