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How to Use Facebook and the Internet to Reach People for Christ (Guest Post)

January 10, 2011April 11, 2014 Sus Schmitt

College students spend an average of five hours a day online. So, when it comes to building spiritual movements with students, everyone knows that online is important.

Our student-led leader for West Africa created training in how to use EveryStudent.com, how to respond to emails and how to use EveryStudent.com on campus, on Facebook, etc. If my math is right, he’s trained about 450 students throughout Ghana and Nigeria in the last nine months, then in Ethiopia and Kenya. Liberia is next.

You can use the same simple ideas to enhance, and even accelerate, your individual or team ministry using the internet. Sign up to receive “How to Talk about God,” a special weekly email series from EveryStudent.com to help you confidently use the internet in your ministry.

Use the great articles on EveryStudent.com and the free email series. Try these ideas for yourself and with your ministry team and then comment here to encourage others to try internet ministry! Continue reading How to Use Facebook and the Internet to Reach People for Christ (Guest Post)

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Using Technology in Bible Study

December 2, 2010June 19, 2014 Sus Schmitt

I’m not writing much today because I hope this video inspires you to consider how you might do something similar in your ministry. So, I’m hoping YOU will write and let me know: if you are doing something similar or if this video gets you thinking of something you might like to try with Facebook, Twitter, mobile phones, or some other technology. This additional video testimony for YouVersion is similar, but slightly different, too. Related Posts: Online Bibles Bible Reading Plans Help Me Stay on Track from Seabourn.org Continue reading Using Technology in Bible Study

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Social Media and Your Ministry

November 3, 2010April 13, 2013 Sus Schmitt

It’s important for all of us to understand the incredible impact of social media on our lives and on our culture.

What is your “take away” from this video? For me, I’m remembering my first website was a static place where others could go for information. Now, my posts go to my potential readers instead of them going to the posts and … I hear from them even within seconds sometimes!

Have you looked seriously at your ministry through the lens of social networking? Are you and your disciples integrating your face-to-face connections with your virtual connections? Who are you trying to reach and what is the best way to reach them? Continue reading Social Media and Your Ministry

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YouTube and Video Ministries

October 21, 2010August 25, 2025 Sus Schmitt

Have you found some great videos to share for evangelism or discipleship? Check out some of these great videos to share through eMails, Facebook, Twitter, or your blog. You can link to YouTube videos or to meaningful content in the EveryStudent.com Video Room and through the videos offered by Magdalena Today, Power to Change and more.

Please comment if you know of some Campus Crusade for Christ videos that should be added to this list. Continue reading YouTube and Video Ministries

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Redeeming Social Media by John Piper

October 11, 2010May 7, 2014 Sus Schmitt

Have you ever been in a discussion about the value of social media? Here’s what John Piper has to say:

“I see two kinds of response to social Internet media …

“One says: These media tend to shorten attention spans, weaken discursive reasoning, lure people away from Scripture and prayer, disembody relationships, feed the fires of narcissism, cater to the craving for attention, fill the world with drivel, shrink the soul’s capacity for greatness, and make us second-handers who comment on life when we ought to be living it. So boycott them and write books (not blogs) about the problem.

“The other response says: Yes, … but…, try to fill these media with as much provocative, reasonable, Bible-saturated, prayerful, relational, Christ-exalting, truth-driven, serious, creative pointers to true greatness as you can.”

I’m hoping you’ll take the time to read the rest of John Piper’s post on why Christians should take their message to all sorts of media. At least follow the link so you can read his example of a creative Tweet poem. Continue reading Redeeming Social Media by John Piper