Do you know how to use your mobile phone to connect and communicate with those who have yet to discover abundant life in Jesus? This free, 75-minute course will show you how. Click here to enroll for free Lesson 1: Multiply Your Ministry with Mobile Lesson 2: Adapt It To Your Personal Style Lesson 3: … Read more
The real author of this article has been ministering among the diasporas of indigenous people groups in northwest Mexico for over three decades. Over the last two years, during my visits to California, I began noticing a change in the ethnic mix of men gathering every morning at a Home Depot parking lot to find work. … Read more
Ounce for ounce, nothing can beat the ubiquitous microSD card as a ministry tool. Here are a few examples of ministry via microSD card: Donna, a worker in India, gave a microSD card filled with audio and video files about Jesus to her friend, Amira. She was very poor, but she had a media-capable phone … Read more
Distributing the Bible (ie. Scripture portions, the New Testament, or the entire Bible) electronically has become so important lately. As billions of people purchase smartphones and tablets, the demand for the Bible and Scripture resources for these devices only increases. Wifi media boxes (WMBs) like the Lightstream and ConnectBox were designed to meet this growing … 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
Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, tens of thousands of people have fled to the United States (37,000 slated to be sent to various states initially) and other countries. According to one U.N. estimate, up to half a million refugees will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2021 . Since they are coming to the church’s … Read more
A few years ago, Mashable featured an interview with Melinda Gates titled Tech’s Responsibility to the Developing World. Pay attention to Gates’ perspective if you’re using mobile ministry to glorify God among unreached peoples: When it comes to issues in the developing world, an understandable concern is “technology creep,” wherein organizations use advanced technologies even … 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
Guest Post by The DMM Platform At The DMM Platform, we are experiencing the Kingdom breakthroughs that come when those who have never heard of Jesus hear Him speaking in their heart language. Simple, reproducible churches emerge as people in some of the most difficult and hard-to-reach places begin listening and responding to Jesus. We … Read more