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Western SymbolThe digital world — where people increasingly perform work, pursue education, build relationships, and otherwise live their lives — consumes more and more of people’s time and attention. Find out how God’s message is being spread even in the digital world and how you can play a part.

In The Footsteps of Gaius

By Frank Johnson on December 19, 2020 0

Neil Ruda: Walking in the Footsteps of Gaius

The book of 3 John tells us that Gaius supported the itinerant teachers of his day in a manner worthy of God, and that by doing so, he was a fellow worker with the truth. Like Gaius, Neil Ruda is a missions mobilizer – impacting the eternal destiny of souls by helping fellow missionaries and ministries be more effective, efficient, and productive using modern-day tools of technology and compassion to share the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world.

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How to Join 3,000 Missionary Teams Around The World!

By Frank Johnson on February 22, 2020 0

Technology for World Mission

Bob and Edie Lafon are Assemblies of God missionaries and serve almost 3,000 different missionary teams around the world, providing technology, media, and communication consulting to free those missionary teams to declare the gospel. Joining their team through prayer and financial support would be one of the most strategic choices you could make for the cause of world missions because their influence, though it often takes place “behind the scenes,” is vast in its scope.

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Using Media To Reach The Lost In Japan

By Frank Johnson on December 11, 2019 0

Justin Canavan, Media Missionary to Japan

Justin Canavan has a wealth of experience in using creative media. He has served as a videographer, producer, director, camera operator, lighting director, stage manager, tech team facilitator, director of photography, etc. He graduated cum laude from Evangel University with a Bachelor of Science in Film with minors in Broadcasting and Biblical Studies. But in all his experience, you will find two common threads: 1) he uses creative media to spread the gospel; and, 2) an obvious love for the people of Japan.

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How Digital Communication Facilitated a Wiccan’s Conversion to Christ

By Frank Johnson on October 8, 2019 0

Digital Communication and Evangelism

FROM RICH TATUM:
How Digital Communication Facilitated a Wiccan’s Conversion to Christ
The Sharpe Logs represent the fascinating story of Kathi Sharpe — a practicing pagan witch (a Wiccan) who converted to Christ and was discipled through digital conversations with Rich Tatum, a then web project manager with Christianity Today International. These “logs” are just that — records of 53 different online conversations Kathi and Rich had through email and instant messenger over a period of almost an entire year. Although the logs are almost twenty years old at the time of this writing, they still provide tremendous insight into how God can work through digital means to bring people to Himself and raise them up to maturity in the faith. Click the button below to read the rest of the story!

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Photo courtesy of John Schnobrich. Used by permission.
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You Are Already an Internet Evangelist

By Frank Johnson on October 6, 2019 0

You Are Already an Internet Evangelist

In her excellent article entitled You’re Already Doing Internet Evangelism, so Do It Well, Amber Stamper interviews Tony Whitaker who was the founder of the Web Evangelism Guide and then coordinator of Internet Evangelism Day until his retirement in 2015.

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Effective Church Websites

By Frank Johnson on April 12, 2015 0

Typing on keyboard

We must aggressively seize the opportunity and establish an effective presence in the midst of today’s marketplace so that we can effectively declare the gospel to the internet generation. A church’s website in today’s postmodern world should primarily on creating opportunities for conversation and relationship (both online and offline) between believers and unbelievers.

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A Strategy for Local Internet Outreach

By Frank Johnson on April 12, 2015 2

Students at Sydney Missionary and Bible College

Today’s church is faced with a historic opportunity. The internet gives us the ability to present the gospel to untold millions of people who have never committed their lives to Christ. TCounty-based portals such as those described in this article effectively use the internet but also hold true to the Biblical principle of authentic Christian community as a foundation of outreach and evangelism.

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Low-Cost, Effective Church Websites

By Frank Johnson on November 28, 2007 0

Church in Laptop

There is an alternative approach to developing a church website which does not require an outside designer, does not need a fancy graphical appearance, and should also prove to be much more effective (in reaching the lost) than the typical church website.

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This book accepts digital connectivity as our reality, but presents a vision of how faith communities can utilize technology to better be the body of Christ to those who are hurting while also helping followers of Christ think critically about the limits of our digital attachments.

Digital Witness: A Social Media Primer for Churches by Joel Southerland helps churches get started with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for evangelism and ministry. It identifies simple, strategic practices a church can implement immediately to move into the digital world.

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  • Asia Pacific Media: Empowering Christ Followers to Effectively Utilize Media and Technology
  • Cybermissions: Using Computers and the Internet to Facilitate the Great Commission
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  • Indigitous: Engaging and Unleashing Believers into Digital Missions
  • Missional Digerati: Redeeming Technology for Kingdom Work
  • Mobile Ministry Forum: Giving the Unreached a Chance to Encounter, Eperience and Grow in Christ Through Their Personal Mobile Device.

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  • Matt Brown: The Next Generation and Digital Missions (North American Mission Board)
  • Digital Missions Podcast, Raising Up Digital Billy Grahams with Jon Groves
  • The Missionary Mobilization Podcast: Maximizing Digital Mobilization with David Joannes & Guest Co-Host Kanita Benson

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  • To the Ends of the World Wide Web: How Social Media and Technology Are Growing Churches in Iran, Ghana, and Vietnam
  • Facebooking the Unreached: Harnessing the Power of Social Media for Christ
  • Online Ministry Helps Plant Secret House Churches in Closed Countries
  • The Best Digital Evangelism Tips For Beginners In 2021

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  • David Platt: The New Silk Roads of Evangelism (The Gospel Coalition)
  • Indigitous (Engaging and Unleashing Believers into Digital Missions): Join Us in Digital Missions
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  • Missions in the Digital Age (Greater Grace Church - Baltimore, Maryland)

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Lord Jesus,

This day, we cast our souls upon Your sacrifice as our only hope for purpose, meaning, and fulfillment here on earth and for life in the age to come.

This day, we swear allegiance to You, our King.

This day, we pray that You would set our hearts aflame for Your cause and for the over 3 billion people in this world who have yet to hear Your name.

We long for the day that we will stand before Your throne, surrounded by the most diverse community ever formed — from every tribe, every tongue, every people, and every nation — those whom You have purchased with Your blood — as we cry out together “Worthy is the Lamb!”

Until that day, we commit ourselves to loving our brothers and sisters in Christ — no matter what their people group, no matter what their language, no matter what their race, no matter where they are from — and to living in community with them — that the world may know that the Father loves them and that He sent You to save them.

This day, we devote our lives — our time, our money, our passion, our mind, our strength, our everything — to see Your gospel proclaimed in every corner of this world.

And we thank You for the astounding privilege of playing a small part in carrying Your name to the nations!

Pray for the Tsukuba Express Church Planting Team

Tsukuba Express Line

  1. Please pray for the areas surrounding these twenty rail stations: Akihabara, Shin-Okachimachi, Asakusa, Minami-Senju, Kita-Senju, Aoi, Rokucho, Yashio, Misato-chuo, Minami-Nagareyama, Nagareyama-centralpark, Nagareyama-otakanomori, Kashiwanoha-campus, Kashiwa-Tanaka, Moriya, Miraidaira, Midorino, Bampaku-kinenkoen, Kenkyu-gakuen, and Tsukuba
  2. Pray that God would raise up church planters and send forth laborers into the harvest fields surrounding these stations (Luke 10:2-4).
  3. Pray that God would help these church planters identify persons of peace in the areas surrounding these stations (Luke 10:5-8).
  4. Pray that God would enable these church planters to speak the word of God with boldness in these areas (Luke 10:9b).
  5. Pray that the proclamation of God’s word in the areas surrounding these stations would be accompanied by demonstrations of God’s compassion and power (Luke 10:9a).