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Living For Things You Cannot Lose - #6214
The person who devotes their life to the eternal things they were created for will see their years on this planet count for all eternity. It's not cheap, but it's worth it. Just ask Jim Elliott. Just ask Jesus. Some will think what you're doing is foolish. But then, he is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/living-for-things-you-cannot-lose-6214
Mobile phones for evangelism, discipleship and mission
A strategic article advocating the potential of mobile phone in evangelism and ministry, with special reference to the Majority World. Check out PDF article The Little Phone That Could from the latest International Journal of Frontier Missions.
The article also announces the launch of Mobile Advance, a vital website designed to resource people in the use these mobile strategies.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/2650
Lausanne, the mission movement, and digital evangelism
IE Day's Open Letter to Mission Agencies connects with Lausanne's growing focus on digital evangelism around the world.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/2359
Take the EX out of ex-missionary. How to start a literature ministry back home
Ongoing ministry for missionaries: “It’s like I never left”
“I wish I could go back,” is the response of many missionaries when they get back to their home country. Reasons for not returning can be many: age, health, caring for older family members, children’s education, finance, or a volatile political situation.
Happily, there are many ways that a returned missionary can continue to minister to his or her country of service. Many are involved in some area of prayer and mission advocacy – encouraging prayer involvement and mission commitment within their home churches. Many can maintain mentoring links with national believers, or be involved in translation work. In these days of population mobility, they can often find a sizable population of ‘their’ people in larger towns.
http://internetevangelismday.com/missionary.php
Open letter to mission agency leaders, executives and staff about digital evangelism
To mission executives, field leaders, missiologists, magazine editors and missionaries everywhere:
We know that your ministry's heart is to share the good news of Jesus Christ. May we draw your attention to the potential of new options that can enhance your mission's objectives: the growing array of digital and Internet evangelism opportunities.
http://internetevangelismday.com/mission-leaders.php
Free MP3 Christian music for evangelism challenge and missionary advocacy meetings
These songs are useful for missions or outreach-challenge meeting for Christians – these are not evangelistic songs to speak to not-yet-Christians, they emphasize to Christians the challenge of sharing the gospel. Whatever your personal taste in music, they are probably more likely to communicate to younger generations than certain traditional ‘missionary’ hymns written in the 19th century! They are free to use and distribute if not for profit, eg you can burn them all on to a CD – many modern CD players now handle MP3s.
http://internetevangelismday.com/music.php
Facebook and missions - the potential for cross-cultural outreach
Because Facebook is worldwide in coverage with many language versions, it provides a range of opportunities for cross-cultural evangelism. There are multiple options for sharing the good news cross-culturally on Facebook.
http://internetevangelismday.com/facebook-missions.php
Mobile phones and worldwide evangelism and mission
The Joshua Project has expressed progress in world evangelism using a Global Progress Scale. Different colors represent evangelism status.
It would be interesting to create an overlay for this map showing digital penetration in the red (unreached) areas, because many of these have medium to high use of th
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1314
Digital evangelism to the non-western world and unreached people groups
To share with Muslims, we do need to understand how they think. Here are several articles to help us think through these issues:
* The Missing Father – explaining a Trinitarian Concept of God to Muslims
* Understanding shame cultures – completely different to the culture you probably belong to
* Oral Communication Cultures – although Muslims are people of the book, they are also within a broadly oral communication culture (as indeed are many westerners who do not get much information from print media)
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/356
Lausanne World Pulse February 09 features digital evangelism article
Lausanne World Pulse – a free email newsletter – covers the potential of the Web for evangelism, especially as it relates to cross-cultural missions.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/30