MMF 2012 Consultation Executive Summary

Overview

119 mission strategists representing 56 organizations* participated in the third Mobile Ministry Consultation sponsored by the Mobile Ministry Forum (MMF). This more than doubled the 2011 Consultation participation. Presentations and discussions addressed a wide variety of issues critical to the use of mobile devices in ministry (see the topic list below). Collaborative outcomes of the consultation include plans to expand the four-week course into a six-week course, develop a training manual to equip ministries and local believers to use social media, create a mobile ministry pathway for ministries considering mobile ministry, develop a centralized online hub for all resources related to mobile ministry, design a three-hour introductory online course, and create a taxonomy for discipleship criteria on the mobile platform.

Content

(Some of links are for Google Docs and may require a Google log-in)

Slide Show – A 90-second slide show from the consultation.

Schedule – The detailed program flow.

Notes – The detailed, crowd-sourced notes from each session on Google Docs.

Mobile Ministry Course – The current four-week mobile ministry course (online).

Presentations

Jihad: Pull vs. Push Media in Movements (Preston)
A Theology of Technology (Dyer)
mLearning and the Great Commission (Metcalf)
The Illusion of Mobile Security (Ed)
Preparing for the Post-Mobile World of 2019 (Williams)

Workshops

Building the digital tools that empower others and broaden your reach – JESUS Film (Brubaker)
A Mobile Ministry Methodology (Wright)
The Unrestricted, Mobile Future of the Global Church (Jore)
Integrating Digital into the DNA of Your Organization (Barela)
Implementing SMS Outreach (Roes)
Mobile Technology and Digital Video (Gates)
Going Mobile- From Concept to Launch (Short)
Sharing Beyond the Web and Off the Grid (Brad & Edmiston)

Participant Remarks

“The worldwide outreach and impact represented by the people gathered in one place here is phenomenal, and the opportunity to think and work collectively and creatively together was awesome.”
“This was my first forum, and I was greatly impressed by the quality of the conference. The topics were relevant and helped me know which direction our organization should go using technology in ministry. Plus, I feel that I have the tools now to make that happen.”
“A very practical and missiologically sound, field-needs-driven, conference where I felt that every talk and every conversation was advancing the Great Commission.”

For More Information contact members of the steering committee:

The Mobile Ministry Forum

The Mobile Ministry Forum (MMF) is a coalition of ministries working towards the goal of giving every unreached person a chance to encounter Christ and His kingdom in a compelling, contextualized fashion through their personal mobile device by 2020.

* This included 31 participants who joined through interactive, remote access.