About the Mobile Ministry Forum

 

 

About the MMF

The Mobile Ministry Forum (MMF) is a network of missional innovators representing more than 250 ministries. We facilitate a mobile ministry movement so that every unreached person will have a chance to encounter, experience and grow in Christ through their personal mobile device.

The Mobile Ministry Forum began in 2009 as an organic grouping of several individuals who had either begun small scale mobile ministry initiatives or who were interested in potentially launching mobile ministry outreaches. What began as occasional Skype conversations turned into a gathering of 16 individuals in December of 2010…the first ever Mobile Ministry Forum Consultation. The Mobile Ministry Forum network now consists of more than 2200 participants.

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Why is the MMF Needed?

Check out this 3-minute video produced by visionSynergy about why the Mobile Ministry Forum is needed. It tells the story of why we created the MMF and how we are witnessing God's blessing.

STRATEGY

To accomplish our vision, we ...

  • Advocate: Challenge the global Church toward use of mobile ministry
  • Catalyze: Resource the body of Christ to get started in mobile ministry
  • Equip: Equip the Church to harness the full potential of the mobile revolution
  • Collaborate: Foster multi-organizational collaboration in mobile ministry initiatives
  • Anticipate: Identify and promote current and potential aspects of mobile media ministry

CORE VALUES

  • God’s Glory and the Great Commission
  • Dependence upon the Lord
  • Reaching the unreached
  • High trust / relationship emphasis (community)
  • Partnership (including facilitating funding)
  • Collaboration / Giving and receiving
  • Serving the larger mission community
  • Education / Advocacy
  • Empowerment (local initiatives and content creation, field driven)
  • Innovation (emerging technologies)
  • Contextualized use of technology
  • Diversity (devices, content, mission fields, leaders and practitioners)
  • Open-handed (blessed to be a blessing)

Steering Team

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Jill McKinnon

WEC International

Jill has worked in Chad with WEC International for twenty years and is currently located in France. During her time in Chad she began a literacy project among nomadic Arabs, when not teaching she loved to be out in the market place selling Christian literature and sharing the Gospel with people. In a land with very poor literacy levels there was not a huge demand for the written Word, although it is highly respected. As mobile phones came into Chad it revolutionized the opportunities and the scope for sharing the Gospel message with people who would eagerly watch and share videos and audio files. Recently there have been opportunities to train national workers and to help them overcome the fear and barriers involved in reaching out to their neighbours.

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Jeff Gregory

Mobile Strategy and Integration
(AGWM)

Jeff serves with AGWM in the area of strategy and integration of mobile technology into ministry. He previously spent 26 years in Asia Pacific working in media production and training. His work involved extensive travel all around Asia and he noticed that no matter where he went, big city or remote rural area, wealthy or impoverished, almost everyone had a cell phone. He began to realize that Mobile technology provides an access point into people’s lives and an opportunity to engage them with the message of Jesus Christ.

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Brian James

Director, Mobiles & Media Team
Frontiers

Brian serves with Frontiers, an organization whose vision is to “with love and respect, invite all Muslim peoples to follow Jesus.” He has a passion for helping field teams and local believers use new media, mobiles, and related technologies to share the gospel in appropriate ways with the world’s least reached peoples. After completing a degree in business (Marketing and Management Information Systems) and working in global business & I.T. consulting for nearly 10 years, Brian moved to Central Asia, where he was involved in church planting efforts for 12 years.  During the past 10 years, Brian has completed a Master’s degree in Global Leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary, served on a team helping others apply knowledge stewardship (management) principles & practices to mission, and launched the Mobiles & Media Team, which equips and coaches field teams in the use of mobiles & media for ministry to Muslim peoples.

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Benjamin Tangeman

Benjamin Tangeman

Digital Ministry & Systems Administration, TWR

Benjamin grew up on the mission field and now follows as the third generation of his family to serve with TWR. TWRs mission to assist the Church in making disciples by using mass media to engage the unengaged and reach the unreached. Benjamin serves TWR in the areas of Information Technology and Digital Ministry. He became part of MMF in 2013 to join the cause of mission by mobile after being impressed by the reality that mobile technology is the world’s 7th mass media, and harnessing this potential for the Kingdom is one of the mission worlds greatest opportunities. He is joined and blessed by his wife Ruth and their two children.

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Johnathan Pulos

Johnathan Pulos

Project Director & Programmer,
Missional Digerati

Johnathan serves as the Project Director for Missional Digerati, a mobile and web app development team dedicated to leveraging technology for the purpose of delivering the Gospel to every nation.  Missional Digerati mainly focus their energies towards developing open source technology that can be used by the whole missional community.

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Clyde Taber

Director,
Visual Story Network

Clyde leads the Visual Story Network, a community of 2500 leaders in 90 nations using media, story and innovative technology to offer everyone the chance to encounter Jesus and His kingdom. 190 projects, products and partnerships have reached an estimated 3 million people. VSN initiatives include the Mobile Ministry Forum, the Middle East Women’s Leadership Network, Mission Media U and the Virtual Reality Network. Before this, he oversaw new media development for the Jesus Film Project and coordinated the campus work of Cru throughout North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Read more about Clyde here.

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PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDE:

Assemblies of God World Missions (AGWM)
Biola University
Bethany Lutheran College
Christ For All Peoples
Cru International - Global Technology Office
Christ For All Peoples
Christian Broadcasting Network
CyberMissions
Frontiers
Greater Europe Mission
Global Recordings Network
Indigitous
International Mission Board

Jesus Film Project - Global Short Film Network
MegaVoice
Missional Digerati
Mobile Ministry Magazine
OneHope
Pioneers
Renew Outreach
SIL
TWR
visionSynergy
Visual Story Network
Worldwide Evangelization for Christ (WEC) International - Mobile Advance
Wycliffe Bible Translators

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