Gospel Outreach with Media: Online Conference

You are invited to the Gospel Outreach with Media: Online Conference hosted by The Christ in Media Institute at Bethany Lutheran College.

Learn more about this complete online conference below. What it is it all about? How does it work? What kind of presentations will there be? Keep reading and you won’t be disappointed.

Opens on Monday, March 28 (the day after Easter 2016)

Active online discussion until Sunday, April 10

Go to GOWM.org during those three weeks to participate

Sessions by WELS and ELS presenters on…

• Using technology to publicize your church, school, or website
• Streaming worship in world languages
• Gospel moving from cell-phone to cell-phone worldwide
• Teaching Basic Christianity across cultures using technology
• Christian writing for the (small and large) screen
• Engaging school children in world missions using media

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What is an “online conference”?

[you can “attend” in your pajamas]

In-person conferences

In an in-person conference, such as we have all experienced, attendees travel to a conference site (often at significant expense) and are offered an array of sessions, each in its own room where an individual presenter or small panel of presenters speak on a subject of interest. Listeners in the room can ask questions or comment if time allows. Sometimes each session may attract a dozen attendees, more or less. Often conflicts in the conference schedule prevent attendees from getting to all the sessions that interest them. And once a session ends, it is over and cannot be revisited.

Online conferences

In an online conference, attendees do not need to leave their homes or offices but rather, as the name indicates, can engage in the sessions and discussions online, and at no cost. International in scope, an online conference can feature presenters and attract visitors from around the world, and each conference session might gather dozens, even hundreds of visitors, who can engage in as few or as many of the sessions as catch their interest. And since the conference is archived online, the sessions and discussions remain available to readers after the conference ends.

Asynchronous operation

Online conferences operate asynchronously, that is, participants do not need to be online at the same time, but can check in at their convenience, experience a session, leave a question or comment, and come back the next day, or later, to view the continuing discussion. This kind of interaction can continue as long as the conference is “open,” usually for a few weeks.

How it will work

Our conference is scheduled to be open for three weeks, starting on Monday, March 28, the day after Easter 2016. During that time, participants visiting the conference URL will find a list of a dozen or more presentation Titles and authors. Each Title on the list is a link to a presentation that might involve text, image, audio, video, or narrated PowerPoint. Many visitors will simply read and enjoy the presentations, but those who wish to do so can post a comment or a question for the author. Authors monitor their pages regularly while the conference is open, and are able to address the questions and reply to the comments. Other participants can comment on the comments, and a lively discussion can ensue, carried on asynchronously over the course of the three weeks the conference is open. The conference will be closed to further discussion at the end of the day on Sunday, April 10.

Preserving the conference

After its three-week run, the conference will be closed to further activity, but all presentations and discussion will be “frozen” and archived, remaining online and available for anyone to read in the future.

We very much appreciate your interest and participation.

The Message

The Gospel for Today – and Always

by Mark Harstad (1948-2015)

Congregation/School to Community Outreach

Videography and Promotion

by Todd Hackbarth (Lake Mills, Wisconsin USA)

Christian Media for a Non-Christian Audience

by Jonathan Witte (New Ulm, Minnesota USA)

Rallying Mission Support in Your Congregation

by Ruthann Mickelson (Madison Wisconsin USA)

Reaching Out to Your Community

Social Media and Church, and Website and Church

by Curtis Bull (San Antonio, Texas USA)

Biblical Worldview Conferences

by Mark Harrington (San Antonio, Texas USA)

Halftime Hope: God Loves Sluts

by Dan Oberer (Farmington, Minnesota USA)

Methods for Drawing Attention to Your Website

by Nadiya Borshch (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

Using Mobile Phones for Outreach

Transferring Gospel Phone to Phone

by Tom Kuster (New Ulm, Minnesota USA)

Experiences with Mobile Outreach

by Kalyan Gallipolli (Rajahmundry, India)

Using Social Media to become a Recognizable Entity

Overview of Technology Use in Latin American Missions

by Michael Hartman (León, Mexico)

The Role of a Facebook Page

by Nathan Wagenknecht (El Paso, Texas USA)

Using WhatsApp to Connect with New Contacts

by Henry Herrera (Medellin, Colombia)

How I Use Social Media as a Tool to Evangelize

by Claudia Baltazar (El Paso, Texas USA)

WhatsApp Groups to Nurture New Believers

by Paul Bourman (New Ulm, Minnesota USA)

Major Internet Projects

Streaming Worship in World Languages

by Paul Fries (Mankato, Minnesota USA)

Insights from Ethnomusicology for Gospel Outreach (with an endnote about a proposed World Christian Music Website)

by Terry Schultz (Chicago, Illinois USA)

Free Internet Resources for Gospel Outreach around the World

by Judith Kuster (New Ulm, Minnesota USA)

Creative Approaches to Gospel Outreach

Challenges for the Christian Screenwriter

by Jas Lonnquist (San Jose, California USA)

Teaching Cross-cultural Classes: Challenges & Solutions

by Don Moldstad, (Mankato, Minnesota USA)

Prints & Advertising (P & A):  Independent Motion Picture Distribution

by Steve Zambo (Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin USA)

Commissioning Artwork for the Church

What Does a Commission Do?

by William Bukowski (Mankato, Minnesota USA)

Commissioning Experiences

by Jason Jaspersen (New Ulm, Minnesota USA)

The Commercial/Liturgical Art Gap

by Jonathan Mayer (Seward, Nebraska USA)

School Children Doing Mission Work by Media

by Amanda Buelow (Mankato, Minnesota USA)