The Reynolds Family is 1 man trying to live with 4 beautiful girls who insist dolls are more fun than dirt.
// February 24th, 2007 // No Comments » // Christianity, Design, Ministry, Web Ministry
This is another response to some questions proposed for my talk at NRB. Two previous posts about NRB were my Initial Reflections and What Ministries Need to Know about User-generated Content.
What are examples of online technologies where churches could be doing a better job?
// February 21st, 2007 // No Comments » // Christianity, Ministry, Web Ministry
I was asked a few questions for my talk at NRB that were fun to answer. I thought I would blog the answers in a few posts.
User-generated content is a huge buzz topic right now. As a Christ-centered ministry, how can we take advantage of this trend without exposing ourselves to problems?
// February 20th, 2007 // 2 Comments » // Leadership, Ministry, Television, Web Ministry
Having returned late last night from the National Religious Broadcasters conference (NRB), I am still processing this quick trip to Orlando. I was there speaking on a panel in one of the REACH sessions about the use of internet content in ministries. Regarding the conference, I can’t say I learned a lot of unknown information, new technology, or that my attitudes about broadcast ministries changed, but here are some initial take-aways:
// January 6th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Christianity, Ministry, Web Ministry
This is post #3 in a slow going series about Web Ministry. Find post #2 here.
I first thought of this when I began using walkie-talkie like voice calling on ICQ back in 1998-99 (remember that Dave?). Back then the social network was hard to discover and the voice quality was incredibly poor. Conferencing was impossible. These days though, we are a few clicks away from multi-person conferencing that rivals the best voice bridges ran by billion dollar corporations. And it seems the muslims have beat us to the punch of providing lessons on their religion whenever someone cares to participate (see picture below).
// December 13th, 2006 // 1 Comment » // Christianity, Ministry, Web Ministry
This is post #2 in a slow going series about Web Ministry. Find post #1 here.
So this should be somewhat obvious, but to do good web ministry you have to go where those who need ministering to are located. Not to say that you need to be comformed to the world, or even blend in. But being relevant is, well relevant to web ministry. Here is a neat thing Community Christian Church did to get a dialog going with a) unbelievers and b) people stuck in legalism/traditionalism.
