SIL’s Jon Hirst published an article last month: 5 Trends Impacting Global Mission. We encourage you to read it and learn how the principles he compiled about post-pandemic ministry may apply to your area of ministry. Here are five statements from Hirst’s research especially worth considering: “The greatest risk for those committed to bringing in … Read more
Two resources are now available to help us gain a big perspective on the current state of the world’s people. Gordon Conwell’s Center for the Study of Global Christianity has released its Status of Global Christianity 2022, which shows that the growth of the world’s Christian population continues to fall behind the overall population growth … Read more
The Christian Commons, by Tim Jore, addresses what could be the greatest obstacle to the Gospel’s spread in this century. Are you guessing it’s radical Islam, secular humanism, or maybe apathetic Christians? Although all of the above are serious issues, a huge threat to the Gospel’s spread is the inappropriate application of copyright law to Christian … Read more
I admit it. I’m a web and app-development dummy. The Mobile Ministry Forum website is designed and maintained by professionals, and I do my best to stay out of its back-end work. I intended to continue being a web and app dummy, but then two things happened… First, the war in Afghanistan ended, so the … Read more
As much as I love video, I confess that audio-first/audio-only people have some strong arguments why you should think about audio as much as (if not more than) video for mobile ministry. Here are some of their arguments: 1) Oral peoples love oral messages, so adding visuals to a story sometimes detracts from … Read more
If you’re living in the present, doing everything you can just to get to the things that need to be done today, you’re in good company. Your problem is that solving today’s problems doesn’t necessarily prepare you for tomorrow’s world and the opportunities and issues it will bring. Every once in a while, it’s good … Read more
When it comes to compressing audio, MP3 is the defacto standard. But should it be? What if you could compress your files even smaller without sacrificing quality? What if you could fit more on a MicroSD card? What if your app size could be reduced, making it easier to transfer via Bluetooth? In this paper, you … Read more
I first reviewed the VN editing app in April 2020 (version 1.10.5). At that time, while the app had lots of functionality and features. But the biggest problem (making the app unusable for me) was that VN constantly crashed on the Pixel 3a and Samsung S8 phones I used for testing. I recently … Read more
The Mobile Ministry Forum exists to see God’s glory and kingdom increase on the earth as Jesus’ disciples follow His great commission and make disciples of all people, teaching them to obey everything He has commanded. As these new disciples obey Jesus, they too will make disciples, and we should see multiplication and movements of … Read more
We recently shared resources that detail the digital habits of people in dozens of countries. The Digital World Atlas is a site we are developing to provide a “one-stop-shop” for all your country-specific information needs (volunteers are very welcome)! Last month, we also shared stats from DataReportal, which provides dozens of country-specific reports and beautiful … Read more