I apologize that it took so long to get these up. I spent 10 days in Budapest, Hungary on a mission trip.

Here are the notes:

How do you hope this will help your ministry?

• Gain insights into reaching today’s culture – expand our vision, collaboration and coordination in some of our efforts
• Use Web 2.0 to do ministry better
• Use technology as means to get evangelism out on the Web – evangelism push technology
• Using W 2.0 to more effectively achieve our ministry aims in build and send
• How do we use the tech to achieve ministry goals
• How do we teach/equip/learn from our students to use Social Networks for best practices to do person to person evangelism
• Strategies and ideas that work (in Europe and the world)

What questions do you have from last time?

• Set up some pages in WordPress.com – more of a Web page than a blog, felt like he had to force it – Rob said there is a plugin to make a page the homepage static if you host it by yourself
• How do create folders in Bloglines for your feeds?
• Challenge of pushing things out to people – lose control being able to control their path – things not designed for next step
• Bringing a generational and conceptual gap – the way of delivering information, being known – we are trying to use the same old tools – there is not a linear thought process more about identity and connectedness
• Traditional ways of meeting people is changing
• Not as much in the message as the messenger > back to person to person communication
• Use the old skills in a new media > initiation, looking for new cues for old behavior
• Learn who people are, can you trust them
• Metrics are being reworked to consider Internet ministry

How do you envision applying Web 2.0 to your work?

• Not so much about the technology, looking for avenues of life to be more connected with nonChristians
• New way of learning to relate
• Should we learn something new to adjust? New technology? Take a team and make them into an Internet ministry team for awhile
• New staff have to be a responder for everystudent.com and get ministry experience from day one, and see how Internet ministry will benefit them
• It is a layer of your life
• Strategic place – short term strategies and keep adapting
• Lent Challenge experiment
• Could I do a Da Vinci Code Challenge?
• Blog better for training and equipping?

What should be our next step? Continue this discussion? Watch and anticipate? Experiment?

• Think tank for e-ministry
• Think tank with summer project people
• Ask the question with Student2Student people?
• Pursue networks of other people internationally and invite them to participate in ministry brainstorming time
• Naked Conversations about blogging