Hoped-for outcomes

We hope that Internet Evangelism Day will encourage much wider and more effective use of the Web for outreach. Specifically, please join us in praying for results such as these:

• Increased Christian understanding and awareness of the Internet as a medium; and insights into outreach strategies that fit with the Web’s intrinsic properties and strengths, especially the Bridge Strategy.

• Churches to create new websites, or modify their existing pages to become user-friendly and enticing to non-Christians in the community.

• People to be called into spare-time web outreach. This includes the creation of new evangelistic sites and outreach blogs, and also support ministry, for instance in email counseling and discipleship.

• Others to be called into full-time web outreach, within existing or new outreach ministries.

• Existing web evangelism ministries to obtain higher profiles and thus more support and recognition.

• Ministries and missions not currently involved in web evangelism to investigate how they might move into this field, in ways which integrate with their other outreach activities.

• People to use the many existing spare-time web evangelism training options. This could also include individual or group studies, based on the study questions such as those in the recommended books on the book page.

• Addition of web evangelism modules into Bible college and other training institute curriculums.

• Individuals and teams to learn how to do non-confrontational and sensitive chat room evangelism, or interact with bulletin boards and blogs.

If you have held an IE Day program in your church or group, you may wish to offer a meeting for people who are considering involvement in some area of web evangelism.