MMF April 23, 2019 Meet and Greet

25 people participated in the April 23, 2019 Mobile Ministry Forum Meet and Greet. The MMF Team gave updates and participants shared their area of interest in using mobile phone technology for the kingdom of God. The following is the Executive Summary and the recorded session.

Mobile Ministry Forum Team: Clyde, Teresa, Ben, Keith, Brian, Jill, Jeff (team link)

Mobile Ministry Forum Resources

1. 7 Steps to Get Started in Using Your Mobile Phone in Ministry
2. 6 Training Resources

Media, Mobiles, & Ministry: Lessons for Learners and Trainers: 360 pages of trainer guide materials (training guide link) (overview slide deck link)

1. Uniqueness
   1. Student handouts
   2. Presenter slides
   3. Can be learned/presented in a short amount of time
2. Can be used for
   1. Self learning
   2. Training as you need it
   3. Series of lessons over time

Media to Movements Resources

1. Foundations of New Media Strategy Course, May 2
2. Using Mobile Phones in Missions, May 7
3. Media to Movements Wiki

EMDC Summary

1. Great place to connect with a lot of different people with different skills to learn from each other
2. Lots of sessions like Social Media engagement, Media to Movements: mobile technology is central to so many things that people are doing around the world but the goal is to get people connected to church, Affinity group for Media to Movements: the goal is discipleship
3. 27 training tracks at EMDC
4. LUMO and Faith Comes By Hearing announced their partnership that increases the number of languages of New Testament www.lumoproject.com

Resources Mentioned by Participants

1. Kent Shaffer: www.openchurch.com, Create Good, turns data into actionable impact for specific cities or sectors. Together these initiatives are creating an ecosystem that connects ministries, funders, and specialists around their passions to solve the global Church’s biggest needs.
2. Tony O’Hagan: Developing chat software for sites like issuesiface, https://thelife.com, https://issuesiface.com
3. Allan Beeber: www.go2020.com, reach 1 billion with the Gospel
4. Oli Proctor: www.biblica.com, www.biblicaeurope.com
5. Jonathan Woodward: tech advice http://tastesee.org
6. Steve Baughman: Scripture App Builder
7. Tony OHagan: http://kingdombuilders.io slack groups for technologists in mission, connects with https://indigitous.org annual global Hackathon for media and coders
8. Online discipleship tools: www.disciple.tools
9. Eurasia Media and Distribution Consultation. Email steve_baughman@sil.org to get on the EMDC mailing list