Past Events

Basics For Your Short-Term Mission Team

11 Steps to Equip Your Short-Term Team to Use Their Mobile Phones (Free download. Read on if you want to go into more depth.) The Mobile Ministry Forum hosted a 50 minute webinar on April 20, 2016. The focus was on why the mobile phone is one of the most useful ministry tools your team members possess. Additionally, key ideas on how to prepare your team along with practical resources are provided. Brandon Honsalek and Brian James presented. 52 ...

2015 SoCal Strategy Huddle Executive Summary

Overview Core members of the Mobile Ministry Forum (MMF) met for a three-day strategic planning meeting on September 28-30, 2015. The MMF leadership, recognizing the movement’s rapid growth, thought it important to come together to seek the Lord as to how our momentum could best be translated into kingdom impact. Our vision is to see every unreached person given the opportunity to connect with Christ and His Church through their mobile device by the end of 2020. The “SoCal Huddle” ...

2015 Mobile Ministry Consultation Executive Summary

De Betteld Retreat Center, Zelhelm, Holland, April 17-18, 2015 Opportunity “Mobile is the first personal mass medium.” Tomi Ahonen shared this at the 2015 Mobile Ministry Consultation. Forbes ranked Tomi as #1 in their list of global “mobile influencers.” Mobile device technology is changing lives, families, cultures, and nations around the world at a rate that no other technology has in human history. The mobile device presents a unique, two-way communication channel that represents the most important technology available ...

Innovative Mobile Content – Four Ideas

This was the fifth in a five-part webinar series hosted by the Mobile Ministry Forum. In this session we highlight four resources for your consideration as you think about how to embrace the mobile revolution for the sake of the kingdom. Darcie Drymon (Seed Company), Keith Williams (Mobile Advance) and Brian James (Frontiers) were our presenters. Here is the recorded webinar. Allow time for buffering (you may close the Participant and Table of Content dialogue boxes for a better viewing experience). ...

Why Your Organization Needs a Mobile Strategy

This is the fourth in a five-part 2014 webinar series put on by the Mobile Ministry Forum. Benjamin Tangeman (TWR), Brian James, and John Edmiston (CyberMissions) were our presenters. Here is the recorded webinar. Allow time for buffering. You may close the Participant and Table of Content dialogue boxes for a better viewing experience. Brief summary notes are below. Mobile Penetration (Benjamin Tangeman, TWR) Global population: 7.1 billion. Mobile phone subscriptions: 7.1 billion. 3.8 billion feature phones. 1.7 billion smart ...

iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives

Craig Detweiler, Director, Center for Entertainment, Media and Culture at Pepperdine University was the featured speaker for the third installment of the 2014 MMF webinar series on June 17. Craig writes the Doc Hollywood blog on Patheos.com and his latest book is, iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives. He has written or edited several books besides iGods, and in 2013, Craig produced and directed a documentary, unCommon Sounds which brought musicians to Lebanon and Indonesia to build sustainable peace ...