Understanding Chatbots, Voice Assistants, and A.I. for the Church When designing a user experience, we typically start by thinking about what a user will see and manipulate, the user interface, which is why you so often see “UX/UI” written as if they are one and the same. But they are different and it is important … Read more
Keith Williams has created a list of the best iOS apps to use for your ministry – and it’s available as a free download! He has the apps listed alphabetically under each heading with a brief description of how the app can be used in mobile ministry. Here are a couple examples: The Parting Gift … Read more
Forbes recently said something along the lines of, “In just a few years, it will take an individual more than 5 million years to watch the amount of video that will cross global IP networks each month.” According to Cisco, something like a million minutes, or almost 17,000 hours of video content will cross the … Read more
Marty Lange, of SIL International, explains right at the start of his presentation why using smartphones in your ministry is so strategic. Even if you are working in an area without cellular service or internet, a smartphone is a media player. Twenty-six percent of the world’s population is under 14 years old and they will all … Read more
Keith Williams has created a list of the best Android apps to use for your ministry – and it’s available as a free download! He has the apps listed alphabetically under each heading with a brief description of how the app can be used in mobile ministry. The headings are: Outreach Bible/Bible Study Prayer Spiritual … Read more
Watch as Richard Margretts builds apps during his presentation at the 2017 MMF Consultation, and shows how you can build your own, too. He demonstrates building contextualized apps by using: Scripture App Builder Dictionary App Builder Reading App Builder You don’t have to be a trained coder to use these apps. Richard creates a digital picture book … Read more
In this 17 minute video of his presentation, Reaching Unbelievers Through Mobile Apps, Johnathan Pulos of Missional Digerati, walks you through three steps to connect with people, build deeper relationships, and ultimately share the Gospel. Johnathan uses the apps he discusses to “…take social media beyond broadcasting…to connecting with a community of people so I can … Read more
It started with a question: “Could we launch a platform that helps like-minded believers have a conversation that matters with a friend?” To answer that, CRU, One Hope, I am Second, and the Jesus Film Project pooled their technical skills and field experience to produce Voke. In this 26 minute video of Russ Martin’s presentation … Read more
We are slow to recommend building an app. Here are our trusted app developer friends… Fingent – Samuel Varghese and is team have developed some significant apps for ministry for folks like Cru, OneHope and CBN. Missional Digerati – Johnathan Pulos is a part of our steering team and our resident app expert. His ministry is … Read more
Keith Williams and Johnathan Pulos have gathered data on app downloads for the second half of 2016 in the 17 least reached countries. These colorful charts and the data behind them are available for you to download and view here. Android Apps Downloads by Category by Cumulative Rankings is the weighted score of all the … Read more