MinistryNet: Antalya 2009 October 18-22

Dear MinistryNet Participant,

For many of us, MinistryNet: Antalya 2009 was where God met us. It was an exciting time to learn new things, meet new people, and write plans for how we will integrate the use of the Internet into our movement building strategies.

We want to help you succeed with your plans! To do this, we are working to make the information produced during the Knowledge Café’s available in a summarized form, and we are working to get audio, video, slide shows, and other supporting documents available on this site so you can review what you heard or get what you missed.

1. Most of the Knowledge Café information has been edited and summarized.
   1. Here are all the unedited Knowledge Café responses.  These are the notes that were recorded at each table. They will remain on the this conference website.
   2. Here are the summarized, edited Knowledge Café responses. (Requires a GCX login for access). These will remain on the conference wiki.
   3. Will you help us edit the Knowledge Café responses? If so, follow the instructions on this page.
   4. Most of the audio files and many of the videos are posted to the ‘Archived Sessions’ page, along with the other supporting documents, like slide show files and notes.
      We have experienced technical difficulties getting the video files posted, so there have been some delays. We will continue posting audio and video files until everything we have is posted.

Will you take a minute and write what the conference meant for you and what your action plan is? Russ Martin started this discussion thread in the eMinistry Community in GCX, and it has been good to see what others are doing now.

We look forward to what God will do through you as you find new ways to use the Internet to help you build spiritual movements!

Blessings,

The MinistryNet Conference Team

P.S. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to reply and ask. Or post your question to the MinistryNet section of the eMinistry Community.

Our plan to have each video session posted within 24 hours of its completion did not happen. To make matters worse, we have had technical difficulties getting the videos posted. At this point we hope to have them posted by 11 November.

The plan is to have a video link, an audio link, and a link to any related files – for each session.

We are the leaders of Virtually  Led Movements. Sometimes we like to talk about others as leaders. We are the “they.”

We are the “A” team.

How will you lead?

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Psalm 40 gives a command to stop striving and simply know that He is God. Then, the promise will come — God will be exalted among the nations. The path is not in running, in striving. The path is in knowing Him, in being still in Him. How will we reach the nations? By stopping and knowing Him.

Look at Abraham, a pioneer who was called to go where none of his ancestors had ever gone. We know that he came from Ur of the Chaldeans (modern day Iraq). The Chaldeans built the Tower of Babel and they worshipped gods and goddesses. This is the world Abraham grew up in. From that context, God spoke. And this is a foundation for Internet Ministry. We are trying to be a foundation, a vehicle for God to speak to others, regardless of the context people find themselves in.

Following means leaving. Abraham was called to a place where he was alone. You may not feel sponsored, valued, or encouraged.

The result was “be a blessing to the nations” but the pathway was the relationship God was calling Abraham into. It’s easy to get lost in our strategies. But God wants us to discover Him in the midst our striving.

The path to blessing is discovering that the blessing is not what we think it is. It is God Himself. God is our shield, our very great reward.

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Russ Licht

Russ Licht
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Educated as an Engineer, 25 years in training as a cross-cultural communicator.
Learns best by failing.
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Doris Beck

Doris Beck has been on staff with Power to Change Ministries(formerly Campus Crusade for Christ Canada) for 34 years. In her current role, she oversees the Interactive Ministry of TruthMedia Internet Group, which includes discussion boards, blogs, chat and online mentoring. She works with a team of staff and over 500 volunteers from around the world.

Daniel, one of the upcoming MinistryNet participants, is already planning to lead an Internet ministry gathering when he returns home. The School of Internet Evangelism will take place 7 November in Saint Petersburg, Russia. If you can read Russian, you can read more here.

There are 164 MinistryNet participants registered from 37 countries!

If you, or someone you know, is unable to attend MinistryNet they can watch the live webcast here.

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After each session concludes, we will post video to this location for on-demand viewing later.

David Rice

David currently serves on the Global Campus team focusing on the development of Catalytic volunteer movements around the world. Originally from the US, he and his wife Susan served for 13 years in Romania developing the Catalytic ministry there and have been living in Budapest Hungary since 2004. In addition to enjoying being the father of 3 daughters,  David has deep convictions about the promised unstoppable work of God in all places to build His kingdom.  He feels that in light of what God is doing in hundreds of places we will never  be able to staff, it is imperative that we find ways to use the internet to develop volunteers and student leaders, as we launch and grow movements across the scope of the 130,000,000 university students worldwide.

How can our company globally take advantage of social networks in order to reach movements everywhere?

1. maybe create an international social media site for that specific purpose
2. first look into what is being used, and then promote among everyone everywhere to use social media
3. international encouragement across  boarders
4. create national groups on facebook
5. maybe e.g. regional
6. making sure that all countries are using vlm strategies
7. communicating ideas in and across countries, like wikis
8. staff using social networks to share ideas
9. using foriegners to reach closed countries using fb
10. one country help download or pass info to restricted countries
11. raising spiritual awareness everywhere
12. cross cultural videos
13. international discipleship in a global family
14. peers around world
15. closed system? no, people have friends everywhere, even nationals in different nations. eg chinese diaspora
16. international online e-summer project
17. use it to help each other.   eg.  we have a need.   like helpdesk.
18. twitter helps others with needs for knowledge
19. so how do we get people connected in open networks?
20. how many countries are represented in our fb account?
21. resource groups and build fb apps to be used in other places
22. sometimes fb not best program for certain locations
23. study abroad students, who can disciple them over there?
24. we look for ccc movents there? do this quickly? global follow up
25. system and who is responsible there?
26. quicker cd to cd, not the whole chain (cd to ncd to nd to nd to ncd to cd)
27. system for regional delegation
28. think about dating services that have databases and tracking, so that we can connect people to right people
29. try to have our own social network?  just for us and our volunteers.
30. like barack obamas campaign efforts
31. right now we have gcx. but need to bring awareness.  use these to build communities
32. showing a short video tv etc in multiple countries eg about raising a kid in ways that could be universally useful
33. christian leaders catch vision for reaching world when they get together
34. interest to learn various languages and to reach across borders
35. idea of social causes that are global

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question Looking at our current ministry globally, what strategic opportunities are we missing?

1. We are not participating as much in blogging as non-christians. Our blogs are mushy Christian stuff. Same in Romania.
2. Understanding the “niche.” We can see communities with different interests, people connect around this. We are not targeting by these types of communities, We’re stuck in an old mindset of only targeting students in dorms who may not be influencers.
3. The net is global, crosses boundaries, languages, etc. We as a movement are the same. We don’t need to focus as much on integrating, but on connecting. There are many examples of countries working together.
4. The post-modern culture is changing, they don’t just want info, they want community. Then they will value the info.
5. Often Virtual ministry is not included in our local strategic plans. If it is not in there, what are we doing about it?
6. A lot of technical expertise is concentrated in a few countries. How can we share that better? Can we develop a forum to better share tech challenges with solutions? GCX perhaps? Documented how-tos. Tony is volunteering.
7. MinistryNet is great, needs more frequent than 2 years. Perhaps online.
8. Tony from Australia: Technologies we aren’t using well:
9. CBN is using PABX systems to connect people live, online. Not typing emails but actually talking.
10. Some websites have a widget have a way to instantly engage the visitor in conversation. To improve the site, a pre-EV conversation, what are you thinking about now?
11. Christian students spend a lot of time on the internet, but they don’t treat it as a field for EV. Mentality is lacking in seeing themselves as witnesses. We need some Transferable Concepts on How To Do Chat/Online Ministry.
12. We need an intentional mindset that calls all of our staff and students to use the net for ministry. It’s good that globally we are talking about this. We must help CCC leaders see the value of staff time spent in virtual ministry.
13. We need changes in software response systems that allow a newcomer to “taste and see” with a few responses that can then be picked up by committed mentors.
14. Help recruit graduates, as they are graduating, to serve as ementors. What we want is people to develop online capability to work toward national impact.
15. What about GAMING? That is one of the most popular uses of time on the net. While people are gaming they are chatting with their friends. How do we break into this? It’s a closed environment with their friends. So they may be online 6 hours, but not surfing. Certainly not looking at evangelistic websites.
16. Eric C talked about the MonEglise.net, a church experience online. This is important for Muslims and others who desire to check out a church but want to remain anonymous for a time. We must lower the barrier for non-believers to explore the faith
17. Is there a common source of followup materials, discipleship group lessons available for us to all use on the net?
18. Making statistical reports available online for students/staff. We don’t know who’s working, what are the results.
19. From Day 1 in the discipleship process we need to plant interest in using the net for EV/Discipleship.
20. Sharing (public website, staff web/TNT) the resources with countries that don’t have IT people, especially small countries without technical resources.
21. Partnership with churches (especially since pastors are often older and not in touch with the technical world)
22. We aren’t very strategic in collaborating with other countries that are similar culturally and in terms of needs.
23. Lack of communication – a lack of awareness about what other countries are doing
24. Some countries are lacking manpower and communication
25. Continuing to share resources following this conference.
26. We are neglecting the smaller countries that don’t have anything set up. The bigger, more developed countries continue to develop, but they aren’t sharing it with those who need it.
27. CCC internationally makes things transferable, but in this case technology advances are not set up to transfer easily.
28. Lack of communication between campus staff and IT people to effectively use these websites relationally. Campus staff need to be better trained/involved in the process.
29. Combining TV and internet (internet TV) – doing some kind of, like, reality show to be a light. Getting Christians on a reality show to be a light on reality shows.
30. Podcasts – educating how to do ministry online. Educating on discipleship, etc. Crusade should offer something like this.
31. Addressing the felt needs of a specific regional area
32. Online seminars, in real time.
33. Arabs are traditionally bad readers – make our articles short (2-3 minute) as VIDEOS. Make every daily devotional as a video. If they like it, they can download the text.
34. Making reading online articles attractive
35. Putting articles in voice format – a radio program or an article with sound, so people can listen to articles on the go (in the car, walking).
36. Collaboration – some countries have excellent bible studies but other countries must develop their own because they don’t know about it. GCX is a good start in this direction. We should be developing the materials together.
37. We should continue communication between ministrynet conferences so that our learning is more continual
38. We need a singular platform – maybe a software/websites that we can all use to share our resources.
39. Translator tool that could make it possible to chat/comment on websites with people who don’t speak the same language.
40. We only do what works (everystudent.com) but we stop being innovative or creative, so we miss the opportunity.
41. We need more training material than just the follow ups – we need to know how to train people online. Sharing material with other countries
42. We need a site that shows us what each country is doing, so we can share the materials
43. We are missing opportunities with follow-up sites – training sites, connecting in real life with people we met in the virtual world.
44. Our websites should be translated into many languages to be able to serve more people.
45. Within countries, we need a place to share materials that we have developed (bible studies, songs, etc). We take things from outside, but we should share from the inside as well.
46. We should involve others (ex: volunteers) in the process as well, so that there is more multiplication.
47. Involving students in the process – they have the most creative ideas and we give them the resources instead of involving them in the creation of them.
48. A platform of information – who is doing what where? A website with resources? Who would do this? Like an idea forum where we all have a login. Sharing ideas/developing resources together. GCX is a start
49. Twitter – create something like that – create the new technology (the technology of the future). Something global for students.
    RDS is a great tool
50. Losing internet ministry opportunities in general due to lack of understanding and support
51. Social networks
52. Mobile technologies (mobile websites, aps for reading the Bible)
53. Need to move away from email – maybe a new dawn with Google Wave
54. Videos that are sharable to students
55. Evangelism and discipleship with branding for students
56. Social network and integration
57. Common architecture globally; leveraging global synergies, sharing
58. Lacking strategy for reaching the large number of people in the Big Country
59. qq is an enormous social network for the chinese but it is not secure enough
60. IPTV: application for bible study material in the morning
61. Distribution of used technology from developed countries to underdeveloped countries
62. Animation
63. Gaming

What do I want to change in my context or area more than anything else?

What is my first action point?

1. Tell the people who I am leading what we have done
2. Review our plans and update it with new ideas that help us doing virtual movement.
3. Mobilize new volunteers.
4. Focus on build disciples.
5. Convince the people I am leading to work virtually.
6. Continue training new people how to work in virtual ministry.
7. Website to make the churches lead the movement.
8. Share what I got with my ND and challenge church to engage in chat rooms.
9. Make TV website. Study what we have in media now and connect it with the virtual ministry.
10. Go to ministrynet and review material
11. Pilot project with starterbible
12. Share with my team what I have learned
13. Pray for wisdom in how to communicate with my leaders.
14. Gather my notes and materials, organize it, plan how to share it with
15. Share with staff and plan together, call a special regional meeting
16. Share what is going on around the world in the German staff conference in November so that they don’t develop similar things that already exist.
17. Select which tools best fit our region and share these with others.
18. Review the powerpoints from the websites. Focus on one idea for evangelism, follow-up, and training and apply and improve that idea.
19. Talk with church-led movements and leader-led movements.
20. Have a knowledge cafe with the guys in Africa.
21. Explain online opportunities in my church
22. Talk with pastor prayer group for my city
23. Talk with family life about applications that help them, they are not represented here
24. Try to recruit internet help for Family life
25. Organize my thoughts
26. Buy a computer
27. Prepare a strategic plan for internet ministry, make job descriptions
28. Prepare a presentation for the next opportunities when staff are together to share vision
29. Build partnership with internet TV station
30. Create opportunities that will mobilize people
31. Pray
32. Share this vision of what I heard with my team
33. Meet with other guys who do internet with ministry, 3 guys in our company but we are not a team
34. Staff families in Singapore will be together in November, maybe we can have a knowledge cafe and talk about integration of internet in other strategies
35. Be an advocate for using the internet in building movements as NCD I can’t understand everything but I can encourage the staff, provide resources, challenge the students
36. Gather a group of volunteers and student leaders and share vision over a period of time, not all at once because they will forget. Show them active sites and help them see what is happening in other places. Show them that it is simple, they could do it.
37. Sleep
38. Process and prioritize
39. Begin using facebook and continue relationships begun here
40. Talk with my leadership team and ask them for an action point
41. Lots of follow-up emails with people from the conference
42. Talking with church pastors and motivating believers to get involved as volunteers
43. Add virtual ministry session to our NLTC for campus leaders
44. Meet with our team to review conference and formulate the strategy steps
45. Take the constructive feedback on our system, and begin assigning tasks to our developers

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question How can we encourage innovation in my area or context?

1. Broaden / create learning environment that include others. Where best practices are shared, innovation is encouraged, setting aside funds to implement ideas.
2. Be intentional about it. Low threshold of trying out ideas and equally low threshold of cutting ideas that do not work. Becomes easier to suggest and try out ideas. Develops a culture of innovation. Helping people to be willing to implement new ideas.
3. Ask student leaders and students to come up with ideas.
4. Get a group of students to come up with an idea each to reach the campus and the one used wins a prize.
5. Offer an incentive (financial, prize), a dollar for every student exposed to the gospel. Motivating students. Posters to ask for people’s input.
6. Use the tools yourself that you want students to use to reach other students (e.g. facebook)
7. Positive attitudes to any idea. Embrace ideas. Being enthusiastic about possibilities.
8. Creating a need in students lives for innovation in sharing the gospel. Vision to reach more than they can physically reach, that then drives innovation to reach larger numbers of people.
9. Do local knowledge caf with students / volunteers (Draft ideas and raise vision)
10. Not being afraid to try something new. Not to get complacent. To have an open mindset to new ideas.
11. Giving people freedom to fail.
12. Modelling creative methods as an example to others.
13. Leader often seen as expert. Giving students genuine responsibility and ownership.
14. Target audience that we’re trying to reach are the ones who will come up with innovation.
15. Be clear on what the need is in society, have a clear picture of where society is at and work from that. Share this vision with team-mates.
16. Contact STINTers, previous staff and ask what are the things they would change, the ideas they would implement.
17. Visit other countries ministries nearby and see how they do ministry. Send students on STINT to another place to learn, see other ideas and come back.
18. Share results of previous projects, the methods we’ve used and how they went to inform future projects.
19. Asking people from different areas of the ministry (not internet or student people) for their input.
20. Put into language that non-internet minded people can understand. Communicate effectively to support team, staff, students.
21. Encourage discussion at small group level
22. Small trip that gets a group of people together (internet minded and non internet minded).
23. Pioneer and be a model to others, articles, videos.
24. Call people to the problem solving process, if they see the future they can become part of creating new ideas.
25. Intentionally recruit more volunteers into the area of technology, web design, innovation etc to build our skill base. People with a heart for what we can do
26. Reach students with technological gifts.
27. Allowing specific timeto think / draft new ideas.
28. Asking major donors to put together a fund of money, put together a team of students and best idea gets used.
29. Involve the right people in the decision making process. A healthy balance between ideas people and practical people who can make things happen.
30. Creating local wiki drafting lots of ideas and activities but then also clear points where decisions are made and implemented.
31. Periodic meeting to have brainstorming then have time to filter it. And develop the good ones.
32. Encourage people to have ideas from what is going in the community.
33. Bring to our staff what is going well in some other areas to
    
34. Plan a little MinistryNet conference in our own region, with people not just within Campus Crusade (Queensland, Brisbane)
35. Get the creativity of students ‐ not to subsection their faith with their creative activities.
36. through mentoring appointments
37. Talk to leadership to convince them that every new staff should be asked to include time in their schedule for Internet ministry.
38. This is the plan of the student ministry in the UK: With all seven campuses, sponsor their best students (those with a good sense of Internet ministry, not just tech geeky people) and get them together to form a  creativity lab, and ask them to come up with the best outreach strategy that integrates Internet with Media, and award them. Have a competition.
39. Form a team for my area that comprises field staff and younger guys to think about Internet technologies integrating with the rest of the ministry
40. Meeting with leadership team to share about what has been shown here at MinistryNet.
41. Find some students with the vision to work together.
42. Replicate the knowledge cafe
43. By showing leaders results of Internet ministry to convince them to put more resources and creative people into this field.
44. Collect stories.
45. Translate Gospel videos into
46. Two ways: train people and help them create things (brainstorming)… creating the space and permission!
47. Another way: create things and then give it to people from other Problem‐solving exercise: we want to reach such‐and‐such a
48. Try to connect with the world outside of Crusade and learn from them.
49. Organize a three‐week summer project with geeks and non‐geeks together. (incubator camp)