By Byron Barlowe Does your ministry have an underperforming website? Or do you have yet to enter into the twenty-first century and Internet outreach? Have you (or your donors) heard war stories and astounding stats from high-flying sites and wondered if you could ever see such results? Take heart. For eight years it was […]
By Dave Hackett The world zipped past an unnoticed milestone as 2006 arrived. Over one billion people were online. Roughly 15.7% of the world’s people connected through the fastest communication service ever devised.1 Are Evangelistic Websites Drawing Visitors?The following is a sample list of sites divided by language. Arabic: http://www.maarifa.org/. Called the most popular Arabic-only […]
By Tony Whittaker In New Testament times, the Roman Road system was strategic in God’s plan. It enabled the spread of the gospel throughout the then-known world. In the same way today, the Internet is a worldwide network that can facilitate effective gospel communication. The Internet Evangelism Day website offers resources for Christians at two […]
By Robby Richardson I have had the privilege for over ten years of working in various capacities with Gospelcom.net, the Internet outreach of Gospel Communications International (GCI). It has been a joy to watch individuals and ministries take hold of this technology and develop creative ways to share the good news of Jesus Christ via […]
By Arne Fjeldstad Fatima loves chatting on the Internet. Several hours usually go by quickly in the Arabian Peninsula Internet café. The web is new, exciting and fun; you can even chat with foreign boys from other countries! And you can ask questions that the clerics in the mosque do not want to hear. Some […]
By Debra Brown Initiating Internet evangelism in the local church setting is a little like trying to ski uphill—it can be very difficult to get momentum. The best way we have found to do so is to develop an integrated system to support the online ministry. This approach has a number of benefits. First, it […]
By Dallas Anderson In the time that it will take you to read this sentence, the world’s population will grow by eleven people. According to the United States Census Bureau, 141 people are born every minute, meaning that over 200,000 people are born per day for a total of 6.2 million people per month […]
By Larry Holcomb Purpose and Overview Urban Impact (UI) is a unique ministry that focuses on reaching the 10/40 Window by raising awareness of the need to reach unreached people groups and by evangelizing the unreached people groups who have come to the United States. Urban Impact seeks to evangelize Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs […]
March 2006 By S. Kent Parks Ethnê06, is a global gathering of people, churches and organizations focused on ministering to Unreached People Groups (UPGs). The gathering will be held 7-10 March 2006 and is designed to energize the body of Christ for continuing work among the twenty-seven percent of the world which has little or […]
March 2006 By S. Kent Parks Wholistic Gospel Movements (WGM) will develop integrated efforts among UPGs to see the body of Christ started, reproducing, serving and transforming their own communities and other unreached peoples, cities and nations. Frontier Crisis Response Network (FCRN) will explore ways to cooperate in crisis situations including natural disasters, war, economic […]
April 2006 As North Queensland experiences its worst cyclone on record, Anglican offices have been shut down, a church hall has been destroyed and a rectory roof has been ripped off. The town of Innisfail was most affected by Cyclone Larry, where houses were ripped apart by gusts of nearly three hundred km/h. “Innisfail is […]
April 2006 In Uttar Pradesh, Jharkand, Punjab and other places in India 175 Operation Mobilization India film and literature teams are working to add new believers to local fellowship for God’s glory. The teams are using a film on the life of Christ called Dayasagar. Each team is made up of four to six 18 […]
April 2006 The Encounter with God churches in Quito continue to make sizable strides toward unifying their relationship and planning joint partnerships for future church multiplication in the area. Recently the churches formalized their relationship as a “RED,” the Spanish term for network. As part of the network, churches agree to work together in holding […]
April 2006 The board of trustees of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) has appointed Ida Mutoigo to the position of director of the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC), Canada. If the appointment is ratified by Synod 2006, Mutoigo, who currently serves as CRWRC’s team leader for East and Southern Africa, will be the first […]
