Churches Plan to Focus on Digital Media During May

During May, churches and other Christian groups around the world will focus on the opportunities for evangelism using the Internet.

2011-03-30

DERBY, ENGLAND, March 30, 2011 (Press-News.org) "Digital media are transforming evangelism and ministry," says the team at Internet Evangelism Day. To help Christians understand these amazing opportunities, they have designated the entire month of May as a time for churches and individual believers to explore this potential. At the center of the month is Internet Evangelism Day itself, set for Sunday May 15.

Churches and other groups can use free downloads from IE Day's resource site to showcase these opportunities - video clips, PowerPoints, handouts, free music, drama scripts and posters.

A range of evangelism-related books and other resources (normally on sale) will be offered as special free downloads during the month.

Visit the IE Day website at IEDay.net for more information.

Internet Evangelism Day is a worldwide initiative of the Internet Evangelism Coalition, based at the Billy Graham Center, Wheaton. It is supported by a wide range of leaders and groups. "I am glad to commend Internet Evangelism Day," says John Stott.
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... and here is news of further initiatives which are strongly supported by Internet Evangelism Day ...

Free Evangelistic Articles for Print and Web

International lecturer and syndicated columnist Rusty Wright offers a wide range of skeptic-friendly evangelistic articles for reprinting or online publication.
http://www.RustyWright.com
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New Book Explains Social Networking and Evangelism: @stickyJesus

@stickyJesus is a dynamic book about sharing faith online through social networking.

Authors Tami Heim and Toni Birdsong are gifted writers and communicators. Their blog tag-line 'keeping it real & living sticky online 4 Him' sums up their vision. 'Sticky' reflects their desire that the message should be shared in such a way that it clings to people's hearts.

Heim and Birdsong 'get' social media. Many businesses, and even churches, attempt to use social networking as a one-way delivery system for their message, and then wonder why they are ineffective. This book explains clearly that it should be relational, servant-like, listening, compassionate, and inclusive.

Full review (available for reprint):
IEDay.net/stus
Read first chapter online, press pack, other reviews:
http://stickyjesus.com/media-room/book-faq/
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Web Follow-up System for your Church or Ministry

The Mentor Center is an online follow-up system developed by TruthMedia.com which offers two opportunities to your church or ministry:

- empowers members with the appropriate gifts to volunteer as spare-time home-based mentors, to advise (by email) inquirers from other websites, who have spiritual questions.
- also enables any church or ministry to add a Mentor Center response form to their website, and thereby offer online advice to inquirers, using either their own in-house volunteers, or TruthMedia's wider team of volunteers.

http://truthmedia.com/thementorcenter/what-is-tmc/
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Share Evangelistic Video Clips with One Click

Christian media producer CVC is exploiting the exponential growth of social media and online video. Their new YesHEIs.com website offers Christians a categorised range of third-party evangelistic video clips. Here at last is a one-stop source of approved conversation-starting video clips that Christians can easily share on Facebook (or other social media), embed in a blog, or download to a smartphone to share one-to-one.

This resource is strategic and powerful, because it combines the power of visual story as video clips, with the opportunity to start conversations within an existing social network of relationships. This is biblical, relational, discussion-based evangelism.

Of course, posting video clips into Facebook is not new, but up to now, few people would have known where to find suitable video clips, or even how to add them to Facebook along with their own introductory comments. At last, here is a one-stop site for every Christian Facebook user, that requires zero technical knowledge.
http://www.YesHEIs.com

Additional text, official news release and brochure about YesHEIs.com are available at:
http://IEDay.net/blog/archives/3973

Internet Evangelism Day is a worldwide awareness focus for Christian churches and groups. More information:
http://www.InternetEvangelismDay.com

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