This week one of my friends in ministry, Cory Miller of Webdesign.com, helped our ministry experience the great benefit of streaming a Bible study we were hosting live. At the same time, we were able to host at the same site live chatting, and live connections through twitter.

This was a boost for our ministry by:
1. Broadening our scope of ministry reach globally. No boundaries.

2. Connecting a younger group of viewers.

3. Providing ministry to those who cannot come for some limitation.

4. Stretches the scope of how we encounter studies like this by conveying and working through thoughts during the seminar. A click up from passing notes, but still a medium that I think engages us as the learner at a number of different levels.

5. Ability to span across social media sites for impact.

If you have time, join us in this Bible study this week at:
live.qsbc.org

In the past few weeks, our church has tweaked our online social media ministry. Yes, we’re talking twitter and facebook. It has been a fascinating advance, and it has been rather stunning to watch the speed of folks responding to these connections.

We are working to use these outlets in very practical ways, and here are the neatest that I have seen so far:

1. Ability to quickly connect “news” to our group.

2. The blessing of easily expanding the ministry reach of our church globally!

3. The opportunity for inter-connectivity. It is cool to think of all the layers of relationships and friendships that can spin out of being a “friend”  of our church.

4. The potential of archiving thoughts, blessings, and activities of the membership for a period of time; a living journal.

5. Obviously, this is another way to share the Truth that Jesus Christ is the Way of Salvation. John 3:16!

What cool facebook or twitter ministry sights have impressed you?  Have you developed any cool applications for either of these web tools?

Check out ours at:

Facebook

Twitter

Recently a friend of mine, Cory Miller, set up a new experience for me and that was to live post/chat during a convention. It was great!

I enjoyed the interaction so much, and apart from the brief bad feeling of staring at my iPhone to tweet during sermons, it has me contemplating ways to use this type of interaction in the future at our church.

Check out the look of this medium at www.baptistmessenger.com/live.