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Today almost every city dweller and desert nomad in the country, from teenage years on up, has at least one, if not two, mobile phones. Just over 20 years ago I arrived in the capital city of an Arab country where I was to do my language study. Few of my neighbors or co-workers had … Read more
Even if you just emerged from an isolated mountaintop cabin or awakened from a ten-year nap, MMF has assembled a guide that gives all you need to get caught up with social media, and specifically, using it for missions. The 95-page guide, in PDF format, is a free resource and can be downloaded here. It … 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
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
Marty Lange was attending the 2013 MMF Consultation when “Tomi Ahonen completely blind-sided me.” Tomi gave statistics on mobile usage and spoke on how smart phones would change everything. Marty recalled his time at Wycliffe where they made powerful content, but distribution was always a problem. People (minority language speakers) did not have a way to consume … 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’s time to double your efforts using mobile.” Opportunities: This is what Tomi Ahonen shared as the keynote speaker at the 2017 Mobile Ministry Consultation. Forbes ranked Tomi as #1 in their list of global “mobile influencers.” As mobile device technology is changing lives, families, cultures, and nations around the world at a rate … Read more
The following posts contain slide decks from a multi-day training conducted by Keith Williams of Mobile Advance in 2013. While there’s not a lot of specifics, and not everyday is included, we felt that there was some very valuable information to be gleaned and wanted to make it accessible. Click on the links below to view … 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