Using the Internet to Gather, Connect and as a place of Mission
Breakout session 6 Thursday 845 to 945am
Today is Internet Evangelism Day. More and more we need to see the internet as a mission field. As our culture moves increasingly online, this presentation discusses how churches can be missionaries to unbelievers, gather the unchurched and connect with their community. This is a session I did last week at the National New Church Conference. The session wasn't recorded but a lot of Q&A occurred as much of the information was new for the audience. Feel free to post if you have questions.
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Drew Goodmanson serves as CEO of Monk Development and is co-founder/pastor at Kaleo Church. Monk is an Internet strategy and development company. Monk created Ekklesia 360 which is used by thousands of churches and ministries. Drew often speaks at conferences and has written for several national publications about how churches/ministries can use the Internet. Goodmanson.com is recognized as one of the Top Church Blogs. Kaleo Church is a missional community, multi-site church planting movement in San Diego, CA. More about Drew Goodmanson.
Thanks for delivering this content and making it available and sharing the wealth. I feel like a novice when it comes to the web. I do feel confident navigating around the web myself, but too often I feel as a church, we are only scratching the surface in terms of leveraging it’s potential. Do you have someone either staff or volunteer that focus on communication?, if so, would you mind sharing their job description and what the scope of that responsibility looks like?
wondered if you have the notes that accompany the slides…
drew, always appreciate your blog!
Only audio content. I’ll be fleshing this out and doing it again at another conference soon, I’ll post notes.
[...] This post is almost a month late, but since I’ve sent a dozen people to Drew’s blog to download a piece from him, I think it worthwhile to describe it here. At the Acts 29 Regional conference a month ago, which was hosted by Kaleo San Diego and which took place in conjunction with the Acts 29 Church Planting boot camp, Drew made a presentation entitled, “Using the Internet to Gather, Connect, and as a Place of Mission.” [...]
Drew has been an inspiration for us to make our church website a place where people can gather, connect, and be ministered to. Our actual weekly services start on Sept 2 2007 but the church is already ‘gathering’ through our website that just went live a few weeks ago. We came up with what we call the ‘upside-down church’ to describe our interpretation of the New Testament church model that places more importance on people ministering to people 24-7 over the planning and conducting of weekend worship services.