MinistryNet: Budapest 2005

It’s our honor, privilege, and with much happiness that we can announce that we will be repeating MinistryNet, this time in Bangkok.

Please visit the MinistryNet: Bangkok 2007 official website for details.

Keith has a great post wondering Was MinistryNet a success?

I have taken the MinistryNet Schedule and made it interactive. When available, each presentation is linked to the notes and speaker bio. It’s a good place to start when navigating through all the conference notes.

Most of the presentation notes have been uploaded. When available, the specific notes are linked from the notes on that particular post.

As I receive other notes, they will be added.

Here we are in downtown Budapest at Hero Square.

Download a hi resolution version of this photo.

MinistryNet is over…for now! Only the “Budapest 2005″ part is done. The ministry on the net is never done!

Keith reminded us that we are users of technology. We are users of marketing. But this was a conference about ministry.

We also collected webstats from many. 14 websites reported from 5 Area of Affairs and 11 of 26 countries reporting…(as best as we can tell)

In 2004:

• 2.929.300 exposures to the Gospel
• 25.028 have received Christ
• 5969 are in contact regularly
• 2 in discipleship

Lifetime:

• 4.289.300 exposures to the Gospel
• 35.028 have received Christ

We have also formed a yahoo group.

Eric came back to tell us more about The Jesus Internet Project.

The next version of ConnaitreDieu.com (that is currently in French to be translated into many more languages) is the evangelistic website for the project. The site is potentially a five-step process:

1. The first part is a flash presentation of the love of God.
2. Second are many testimonies of many people.
3. Third is a flash presentation of the justice of God.
4. Fourth is a presentation of who Jesus is along with the ability to watch the JESUS film online.
5. Last is a summary presentation of the Gospel (Would You Like To Know God Personally?).

All along it is personalized for you and at any time you can jump out to a prayer of salvation.

Henri was a special guest speaker tonight. He is the Campus Crusade Director of Affairs for NAMEStan.

The Goal: Use media to develop relationships with each person then work with them all the way to them being an active participant in a local group.

Every day the number of internet subscribers and mobile phone users is increasing. We must be in these areas to continue to reach the lost. Continue to come up with more innovative ways. Be creative!

Right now they are looking to replace their database systems because they expect it to crash within 2 years because so many contacts are being added to the database.

“Evangelism without boundaries”

• East Asia: Beginning an internet ministry through LINCnet. Other ministries are working well there such as the JESUS film. One main focus right now is designing a staff website to help with internal staff needs.
• Japan: Campus ministry is changing from traditional on-campus ministry to a Metro ministry approach. Have a website to introduce students to things they are doing there. They also linked to a Passion movie website to begin their internet ministry. Have been handing out a multi-media CD that will play audio and also on a computer that has music, short testimonies, JESUS film (audio and abbreviated video version), and link to register for prizes.
• West Africa: No website for evangelism yet, but have a site for administrative use. All contact information is there. He is using a free website building program that only lasts 30 days so he reformats his computer to get another 30 days. Most don’t have internet at home, but use cyber-cafes and most youth have an email account.
• Singapore: Using sccc.org as news for supporters, staff updates (using a wiki), and download resources for staff. Plan to begin internet evangelism soon.
• South Asia: Within the month they plan to begin an internet ministry that will target people throughout the region. 21.3% of the world’s population live in this area with over 95% non-Christian and thousands of languages. There are currently almost 900 JESUS film teams in the area. In addition they have used “survival kits” such as the one with the movies Titanic and The Passion and audio CDs of the JESUS film.

Measurements

• Measurements
• Common Measurements

Sources for pictures:

• ESC Media
• WorldWide Challenge
• iStockPhoto
• PictureQuest
• His Image

Design assistance:

• Xoops
• Open Source CMS
• Mambo Server

JESUS Film Online:

The JESUS film is freely available for you to use within your websites. All our completed versions are online or in process (more than 800 currently available). Many times we have the classic version, Old Testament intro version and Children’s version. We have designed the presentation so that your visitors never know they are leaving your site. It simply opens the presentation in Real Player. Get information on how to link directly to your language. All of the links are served from our InspirationalFilms.com domain, which is the generic domain that is not connected to CCC. This is so that sensitive websites can still link to the content.

The presentation includes the film, the 4 Laws (soon to be language specific) and a link to the ASSIST response center (you can contact Jim about translating the phrases into your language).

Let Mike know if you need a different presentation look. We can alter the various content pieces on the presentation. We can also show you how to embed the presentation within a webpage if that works better for your design.

Mike Waid
Internet Media Producer
The JESUS Film Project
www.jesusfilm.org