Internet Evangelism in the 21st Century

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New Workshop! David Bruce – The Digital Divide We are experiencing a mass exodus out the church. Church attendance continues to fall at historic proportions. Also, church lay-leaders are leaving in huge unprecedented numbers. Not only are churches failing to maintain true believers, but evangelism is not even keeping pace with our death rate. We are in crisis. The internet has become even more vital in connecting to with non-believers (pre-Christians). We need to rethink how we do church and how we reach a fallen world for Christ.

New Workshop! David Bruce – What Works, What Doesn’t and Why? Case studies of Hollywood Jesus and other E-vangelism web sites and their effectiveness within the internet culture will be discussed. What has worked, and what has failed. Practical suggestions and resource tools will be made available to you for the establishment and improvement of E-vangelism on the World Wide Web.

New Workshop! David Bruce – Making Cultural Connections A vision for the future that we can begin to implement now. Effective communication of the Gospel of Jesus Christ demands a team approach. Digital Partnerships are essential. The workshop will center on workable strategies that will help you achieve outreach goals for your particular ministry.

Allan Beeber – How is evangelism changing in the 21st Century? Printed tracts are becoming passé as the culture embraces the new digital world. This seminar will discuss some of the innovative ways evangelists do digital evangelism: from the use of mini-CDs, Jesus DVDs, Palm phones, streaming media, reaching illiterates through cell phone technology, or digital playback media less than ¼” thick, etc. the evangelism world is offering a host of new options. Yet, there is still a need to blend in promotional communication marketing to both internal and external audiences; tracking results via stats with respective URLs; business plans, etc. Come and find out how to determine which strategies and tools to use, how results can be measured, and what the future might hold.

Allan Beeber & Siam Rogers – Evangelistic sites and Follow-up Systems. There are a growing number of beautiful evangelistic sites coming online. The ‘dark secret’ is that few producers have ‘counted the cost’ in terms of rapid response systems. The mailboxes of many webmasters are full of unanswered e-mails from seekers. The WorldLINC Ministry of CCCI has focused its efforts on developing a state-of-the-art system which can be attached to any evangelistic or discipleship site. This architecture allows volunteers around the world to immediately be notified when a seeker has some to a partner site, and begin dialogue with that individual. This seminar will also explain how our InterLINC volunteers actually equip lay people over the Internet to do ministry wherever they, live, work, play or study using the innovative “LINC” (Leaders In New Community movements) strategy. In the CCCI Campus Ministry alone, our President has stated that he believes over 2,500 ministries can trace their inception from the LINC strategy developed over 15 years ago.

Nick Ciske – Podcasting and Internet Evangelism. Learn about podcasting, the audio phenomenon sweeping the internet and blogosphere. Discover why and how it started, how to do it (including a live demo) and how you can use it to further the Kingdom. Learn what to do and, more importantly, what not to do in this vast and unregulated spectrum. Details on equipment, software, and publicizing your podcast will also be covered. If you’ve ever wanted to be a radio DJ, show host, or just like to talk, don’t miss podcasting.

Rowland Croucher – Evangelism on Usenet Newsgroups. Usenet comprises probably 100,000 special-interest groups, including hundreds of religious groups – and a dozen relating to atheism! Here is an amazing opportunity for committed Christians to share their faith, and learn from others – in many cases with hundreds of thousands of people, or even more. This workshop will examine topics like ‘Christian apologetics for newsgroup evangelism’, newsgroup etiquette, the best newsgroups for different subjects/academic levels, the use of humor, and tips for new posters. Rowland Croucher regularly posts to about 20 newsgroups: Google lists 27,300 of his newsgroup posts and responses.

John Edmiston – Cybermissions: The use Of Computers and the Internet in Missions. Frontier mission is always an adventure and a calling, in the words of William Carey, to “use means” for the completion of the Great Commission. One of the most exhilarating frontiers of mission today is cyber-missions; the frontline use of IE to evangelize and disciple the nations. This will keep the focus on cross-cultural mission web sites and strategic approaches to ministry online such as web-evangelism, email discipleship, web-based TEE and icafes as a church-planting strategy.

Edmiston, et al – Internet Evangelism and the 3rd World. It is certainly clear that even websites hosted here in the USA reach those in restricted access countries. But, IE methodologies targeting specific ethnic and religious groups are essential. This workshop will look at several internet evangelism strategies targeting some of the least reached and hostile to the Gospel people groups

Aaron Flores- Videoblog Killed the TV Star: The Emergence of the Vlog and What It Might Mean for You and Me. Discover how the vlog (the use of video in a blog) is changing online communication, from interacting with others, to discussing faith, to reinventing how we get our news. Discuss the potential impact on culture. Meet some of the people behind it. Learn how to be a vlogger, to share your life and faith through vlogging. Pointers on producing video for the internet, editing video, and mass distributing video content will be given. Enter the world of the vlogosphere and be your own celeb.

“>Chris Forbes – A Complete Internet Evangelism Strategy. The CROSS Evangelism Training Program™ a comprehensive evangelism equipping resource that blends face-to-face evangelism with internet evangelism. In just eight weeks using the system, Oklahoma Baptist was able to develop a completely custom internet evangelism site (www.code2life.com) that boasts more than 3,500 student testimonies. The site features powerful tools, viral marketing devices and follow-up mechanisms that are all edited by a secretary with no internet design and development skills!

Chris Forbes – Using Guerrilla Marketing in Internet Marketing. Take your website to the next level quickly and cost effectively! Contrary to what the name may imply to you, Guerrilla Marketing is not about taking advantage of, or attacking people in some unsuspected way. It is about deepening your understanding of people so you can serve and reach them better.

Sterling Huston – Devotional on Saturday AM

Steve Knight & Panel – Reaching the Connected Generation with Blogging. What is a “blog”? What does it mean “to blog”? And how can blogs be used to evangelize on the World Wide Web? Find out answers to these questions—and more—as this panel of bloggers discusses the emerging medium and what it means for the future of ministry on the Internet. You’ll hear from Steve Knight (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association), DJ Chuang (ForMinistry.com), Nick Ciske (nickciske.com/blog/), Will Samson (willzhead.typepad.com), and Stephen Shields (Faithmaps.org)

Greg Outlaw – Getting inside the seekers head. Discover strategy and tactics to win and disciple souls on the rapidly changing web. No fluff – just the facts for engaging people where they are, with the information they need, when they need it. Discover what’s working today and what’s not and where we believe the future is heading. Come see how to leverage the search engines without paying for sponsored ads? Then, once you grab them how to take them through an intentional “flow” of information into a relationship with Jesus. Discover how you can be an internet missionary with or without technical skills. AllAboutGOD.com

Karen Schenk – How to Successfully Minister to your target Audience. Once a website goes live it has to compete with literally millions of new pages every day. How will your audience find you? And once they do, how will you get them to the content you want them to see? Successful web ministry requires a careful combination of high-quality content and savvy marketing. As content expert Garry McGovern says, “The essence of great publishing is about getting the right content to the right person at the right time.” Join us to learn practical strategies to get your message to your target audience. This workshop is taught using real world examples.

Karen Schenk – Making Real Connections in a Virtual World. The paradox of the internet is this: that the very anonymity it promises opens the door to incredibly personal ministry. Through email mentoring, chat and discussion boards you can talk to anyone, anywhere in the world as if they were sitting right beside you. Come and be amazed by the honesty and openness possible in online communities and learn how to harness this opportunity for your ministry.

Andrew Sears – Technology and Evangelism in Urban Mission Field. Did you know that “Sunday School” originated as a way to teach literacy using the Bible? With the invention of the printing press and the spread of literacy, the Word became known in ways never before and ushered new waves of revival. Similarly today, thousands of Christian organizations are helping to spread digital literacy and Christian community through Christian community computer centers which provide computer skills to make a living and a spiritual foundation to make a life. Find out how technology is being used in the urban mission field for both evangelism and in serving the poor through computer centers that bridge the offline and online worlds.

Todd Smith – The Church, Evangelism and Interactive Virtual Reality Worlds. Unprecedented changes have taken place in American and other cultures that have been driven by the rapid evolution of media such as television, film, and in particular, the computer. This technology is cross-disciplinary and allows for integration of messages in other fields of study, including education, missions, ministry, science, health, special education, history, and geography to name a few. This presentation will expose potential users to possible applications of computer mediated virtual worlds for evangelism.

Harry Sova – New Media Technology and Trends for the furture. While adults continually try to acclimate themselves to the ever-evolving world of technology, teens barely blink at the changes. How will these rapid technological changes shape the world to come?
Rusty Wright – Communicating Christ Effectively to Secular Audiences. Learn how non-Christians think and feel, what they want and why. Discover practical tools for analyzing your audience, including their religious persuasion, intellectual level, psychological makeup, needs, moral attitudes, issues and heroes. Tap web surfers’ felt needs, grab attention, touch hearts and minds, and sensitively communicate spiritual truth. Useful ideas to help Christian Internet communicators connect with secular audiences and nudge them toward faith.

Rusty Wright – Help! I’m not a Techie! You don’t have to be a techie to use the Internet to reach people for Christ. Practical ideas illustrated with motivating stories show how you can spread God’s truth effectively via the Internet without a degree in computer science. Simple ability to use email and visit web pages can get you started.