As the world wide web becomes more and more mobile - through the use of mobile devices, as individuals get together on-line, as more and more of education becomes e-learning the possibilities for ministry & building community beyond the bounds of parish become possible.
The community inside & outside the church is internet savvy, people can speak the lingo of facebook, rss, twitter ... the list is infinite.
How we do communicate is so important. None of this of course overthrows face to face pastoral contact but we do need to speak into culture & that culture is one of connectedness & networks.
Yes we do have parish websites which are improving all the time ... but one wonders if there are people who are looking into where communication could go in the future of the church and if there are examples of good/best practice when it comes to communicating online with parishioners/ young people?
So for anyone reading this ... are there examples?, anyone want to share? any problems?
From somebody who is computer literate but would like to develop things further.
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St Elizabeth's has been recording services for years, and the 'tape ministry' has been essential in reaching those who can't make it to church any more. Last year we updated it to include online sermon audio mp3 files for streaming and downloading at the blog, but recently we've gone one step further through the efforts of one of our young people. We now have vlog sermons too- search for bizzylizzyorg on YouTube!
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