MinistryNet: Budapest 2005

• 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.

Through the means of mass media every person has opportunity to know the love of God and to connect to a local, though often hidden, church. Websites are being built for ministry to focus on topics such as dating. Questions are asked through these sites about Christianity. Often there is a misunderstanding of what Christianity is about and these ministries are working to correct these misunderstanding. Some are sending weekly eNewsletters and using live chat. Currently, one particular site is seeing 1400 visits per week.

A new website that has come online lately is EveryArabStudent.com. Since it started in November, over 3000 people have indicated they have made a decision for Christ. Now there is a follow-up site called EveryArabChristian.com.

There are many more websites and activities that are being done in strategic locations. Please be in prayer for these ministries.

• Serbia: StudentLife Magazine and will build a website soon. They are running two websites at www.filmisus.org and www.vox-magazin.com.
• Ukraine: Recent revolution in the country with several new government Christian leaders. Using the web along with a magazine for outreach. Site been up for 1.5 years and have been seeing the site helping in their face-to-face evangelism.
• Bulgaria: The website is similar to EveryStudent.com to give direct gospel presentations to the students on campus.
• Poland: Website is an internet Bible School with 44 teachers and 340 members. Also using podprad.pl as a campus outreach and web version of their campus magazine with 25.000 visitors/month
• Czech Republic: 80% or more in country are atheists. www.znatrho.cz is both pre-evangelistic and an evangelistic website they use based on PowerToChange.com. www.coolnicka.cz is a campus website with articles for students.
• Albania: JESUS Film distribution and Bible Correspondence course at udhetimi.org. Also have a website in progress but has already seen at least one person trust Christ through it. Plans are to do more evangelism by the end of the fall. Download Albania PowerPoint.
• Russia: neprosto.net is the Russian campus web ministry but is lacking resources. The staff there are excited because they are at the beginning of something exciting. The vision is to offer more websites in the near future.
• Romania: fitzuica.ro is the website for a magazine they distributed. The site is being read often. The most read stories on the site are translations of Bible stories related to college life. They offer email addresses for free that allows them to connect to the people easily. They have over 12.000 users and more than 40% are coming for the articles. They also have www.romainianharvest.ro that talk about all the projects going on in the
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• Germany: StudentLife CD being distributed on college campuses. CD contains thousands of articles covering topics of how to find a flat to dealing with life issues. The CD contains a Bible, JESUS film, and the Gospel in 30+ languages.
• The Netherlands: Took advantage of The Passion with three websites. TheLife.nl had 20.000 unique visitors in first 3 weeks. HeavenlyQuality.nl is a e-zine using an 80-year old as one of the volunteers to chat online. Discovery.nl is the latest. A couple hundred a day are coming where each article leads to the Gospel. Later this year they plan to launch a discipleship e-course. Download The Netherlands PowerPoint.
• Spain: ElSistema.com (The System) is coupled with an audio/video CD distributed to teens. The JESUS film is used as part of the story of The System. They also have e-learning training courses for their staff at eccel.org. The League of WebXtraordinary Men is run entirely by volenteers to create virtual communities of web ministers. Another strategy is to create a pre-evangelistic website on bullying in the schools.