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Global evangelism and digital media
The Joshua Project has expressed progress in world evangelism using a
It would be interesting to create an overlay for this map showing digital penetration in the red (unreached) areas, because many of these have medium to high use of the Web and/or mobile phone ownership:
• web usage stats
• mobile penetration data
This detailed analysis by Ugandan evangelist Kato Mivule demonstrates the current usefulness and growing importance of mobile communication in Africa.
Mobiles are equally strategic in technologically-advanced countries such as Japan, where more web access and emailing is done by mobile phone than fixed computer. There is a growing trend in Africa to use mobiles for web access, because of the shortage of fixed phone-lines.
• Mobiles and email in Japan
• Report from Morgan Stanley predicts that soon, there will be twice as much mobile web access as using fixed computers.
This YouTube presentation explains the opportunities that mobiles offer to missions and evangelists in the non-West (slight sound problem on part of video, to be soon corrected):
Watch a rather long (45-min) secular vox-pop documentary on mobile use in Zanzibar, with introductory article.
As Greg Atkinson has observed, “Think global and mobile.” If you are interested in these possibilities, join Visual Story Network, follow Mobile Ministry Magazine and check our resources about mobiles. We trust that the strategic Lausanne Conference later this year will give full weight to these incredible opportunities.
If your mobile phone will support video clips, store a portfolio of ‘conversation starter’ clips such as these, that you can share when you have the opportunity. (There are many easy ways to download YouTube videos onto your own computer or phone.)
If you have stories to share of effective mobile opportunities, please use the comment link below.
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Does Internetevangelismday website have a mobile-friendly site? Would this be a good way to get started and demonstrate how to do it?
Great Ideas. We need to use all methods for the Gospel.
Hi Tony,
This is a very interesting post. I head up the social media drive for the Lausanne movement (among some other tasks!) – we have been spending quite a bit of time working on finding ways to connect people in the ‘offline’ world to issues, conversations and concerns of bringing the whole Gospel to the whole world.
I live and work in South Africa where internet access is available (but not accessible to most of the population). However, basic handsets with basic browsing capabilities are everywhere (although the cost of data is still an issue here). My concern with Lausanne has been to make use of the traditional platforms to generate relationships and interaction around crucial issues. But I want to take the next step, i.e., bring the ‘technologically silent’ people of Africa, parts of Asia and South America into the conversations on methods and theologies of evangelism.
Thanks for this great post! If you have any ideas that could help us in this work please DM me on the Lausanne Twitter account @capetown2010 or visit my blog at http://www.dionforster.com
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