• Evangelism
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• Outreach
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• Internet
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• Digital
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• Christian

Baptist church website design: building sites that reach outsiders
A guide to creating Baptist church websites that can reach outsiders in the community.
http://internetevangelismday.com/baptist-church-website.php

Karen Schenk - a web evangelist leading the TruthMedia online outreach ministry
Karen Schenk is the Director of TruthMedia Internet Group, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ Canada. TruthMedia strategically builds online communities of evangelism and discipleship and currently runs 22 websites in 12 languages. Karen’s main areas of responsibility include managing the editorial and interactive teams and overseeing a corps of over 400 volunteers.
http://internetevangelismday.com/evangelists2.php

David Bruce - web evangelist with HollywoodJesus.com
In 1997 Billy Graham challenged Christians to use the Internet for good. I took the challenge seriously even though I had never been on the Internet. With a background in media (NBC), pastoring (M.Div), and being a missionary at heart, I went to the nearest Barnes & Noble bookshop, where I picked up some books on website graphics and design. Then, with cross-cultural missiologist Don Richardson’s Eternity in Their Hearts serving as inspiration, I set to work creating a vehicle whereby I could use the culture to win the culture. Thus, Hollywood Jesus was born.
http://internetevangelismday.com/evangelists7.php

Why people go online. Valuable interactive piechart and stats from Ruder Finn research
Public relations and communiciations consultancy group Ruder Finn offers some revealing and valuable figures under the heading Intent is the New Demographic. This is displayed using an interactive pie-chart. By default, this opens as a simplified summary with the option to click on different demographic groups: Men, Women, Youth, Seniors, or All. Click on the ‘full index’ link on that page, and you get a more complex piechart with subdivisions, but which (as far as I understand) represents the ‘All’ percentages broken into subdivision categories.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1055

Research study on making church websites outsider friendly and evangelistic
Ceri Longville, a student at Redcliffe Bible College in Gloucester UK, has just published her college dissertation on church websites.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/945

Technology and the generation gap - how different groups use the Web
A new study by The Barna Group explores how technology is shaping different experiences and expectations among generations. I heard recently of a youth group where the chosen means of communicating within the membership, news of activities, etc, was via Facebook, because everyone was a member. Kelly Dolan asks at Neue Ministry blog how the Web changes ‘I don’t know’ because we can now find almost any information within seconds.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/374

Internet usage worldwide and the opportunity for missions to use the Web
Internet World Stats now provide a page with all the world’s countries, along with population, internet users, and internet penetration. Here are their Top 10 languages used online. Check their links and discussion of methodology at the foot of that page. Few analysts seem to calculate language use after the top ten. The only source I know of is Wikipedia’s Top 34 languages listing. Satellite company O3b Networks has linked up with Google and other investors to bring cheaper, high-speed wireless Internet access to areas unlikely to see investments in fiber infrastructure. O3b stands for “other 3 billion”, a reference to the world’s population that still can’t access the Internet. O3b, which is based in UK’s Channel Islands, said construction is under way on 16 satellites that will drop the cost for ISPs and operators to provide Internet access over 3G (third-generation) and WiMax networks. Read more.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/495

Not brochureware any more
Each time a new medium arrives, Christians may well adopt it reasonably quickly, but tend to perceive and use it in the way they used a previous medium. One example is Christian radio. For many years (and this approach is not extinct even today), the tendency was to transfer the medium of communal church worship directly to radio: hymns, prayers and sermons.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/590

John 3:16 google search provides few useful answers to seekers
What happens if you google on John 3:16? Frank Johnson has blogged on the huge lack of appropriate search results, because outreach sites have not optimized any pages for such a search, or created specific landing pages for that search phrase.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/22

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