Strategic Digital Outreach

Welcome!

Thank you for visiting the Strategic Digital Outreach website! My name is Frank Johnson. I have been a digital media strategist for approximately seven years, heavily involved with internet marketing techniques in the business world. The more I learn about internet marketing, the more I find myself thinking, "These techniques should be used to spread the gospel."

This website is meant to serve as an exploration of that line of thinking. As you read, please feel free to comment - my hope is that we will all benefit from each other's wisdom.

Sometimes The Simplest Things

For more information, visit www.gowestafrica.org.

Thanks to the Facebook For Pastors Facebook Group for the heads up!

Posted in strategies for missionaries on 09/07/08 at 03:34 PM
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LiveMocha

LiveMocha is a website which is in beta and might prove helpful for missionaries trying to learn a new language.

From their front page:

The social way to learn a language.

Community. Livemocha is the first-of-its-kind online language-learning community.

Lessons. Fun and interactive lessons that move at the right pace for you.

Motivation. Track your progress and reach your goals with Livemocha tools.

The site currently offers courses in German, English, Spanish, French, Hindi, and Chinese.

Thanks to 901am for the heads-up!

Posted in strategies for missionaries on 09/24/07 at 04:41 PM
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Internet Evangelism in Japan

Don Wright of Reaching Japanese for Christ has an interesting article on Japanese Web Evangelism

The emphasis on personal relationship in this excerpt:

Few Japanese are likely to know an evangelical personally. Since most conversions result from personal relationship, this means that few will hear the Gospel from a person they know.

was especially interesting.

Posted in strategies for missionaries on 07/30/06 at 01:47 PM
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Missionary-Blogs.com

I’ve just spent awhile reading Missionary-Blogs.com, the brainchild of missionary to Mexico Jim Cottrill. From the About page:

Missionary-Blogs.com is the place to go to find Christian missionaries around the world who write online journals, known as blogs.  A blog is often like an internet diary.  More and more missionaries are writing about their lives and experiences online.  This site focuses on Christians working in a cross-cultural environment.

It’s a really great site. Jim appears to be aggregating feeds from a number of missionary blogs. Following the links from the Blog List page is a fascinating journey around the world through the eyes of missionaries.

Posted in strategies for missionaries on 12/11/05 at 05:52 PM
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More News On Sub-$100 Computers

From News.com

Posted in strategies for missionaries on 06/29/05 at 03:12 PM
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Rural India and the Internet

I just read this interesting news on News.com:

An international consortium, including Indian and American companies as well as the World Bank, is planning to establish thousands of rural Internet centers in India to bring government, banking and education services to isolated villages.

The internet continues to grow in non-Western environments and therefore becomes more and more viable as a tool for world outreach.

Read the full article here ...

Posted in strategies for missionaries on 06/17/05 at 01:02 PM
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Missionary Blogs

Tim Hutchison, medical missionary to Kenya, recently wrote about why he blogs.

Here are his general reasons, but you should go to his blog to read his explanations of each:

To Inform
To Share Our Experiences
To Entertain
To Process The Events of Life
To Challenge Others

A great set of reasons for missionaries to use blog technology!

I first heard of Tim’s site from Church Marketing Sucks who heard of it from John I. Carney

Posted in strategies for missionaries on 03/18/05 at 10:19 AM
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Using Icafes in Mission

Cybermissions.org has a great page of resources regarding the use of internet cafes for evangelistic purposes.

From their page:

Evangelistic Icafes provide a platform for self-sustaining missionary work among unreached people groups. Operating as a normal business in the community they witness to the unreached via friendship evangelism and the formation of house churches. The income from the icafe helps support the indigenous Christian missionaries who run it. The computers are generally imported donated recycled computers.

Highly recommended reading!

Posted in strategies for missionaries on 02/01/05 at 01:41 PM
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Tech Support For Missionaries

This is somewhat off topic for us (since we tend to concentrate on approaches to using digital means for evangelism), but we thought some of our missionary friends might be interested. Missionary Tech Support provides free technical support for evangelical missionaries all over the world.

Posted in strategies for missionaries on 01/29/05 at 11:25 AM
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India Prayer Drive

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new website for the India Prayer Drive.

A group of believers in India felt led by the Lord to plan a 21-day drive across the country of India, stopping in main cities along the way to participate in prayer meetings.

The team is able to update the site themselves by sending emails to a moblogging system. Updates can be made both to the front page of the site (which acts as sort of a travelogue) and to the photo gallery.

Check out the site, but most importantly, join the team in prayer if the Lord would so lead you!

Posted in strategies for missionaries on 01/27/05 at 08:18 AM
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Keith Smith, A Missionary Amongst The Fulani Of Burkina Faso

Posted in strategies for missionaries on 12/27/04 at 10:28 PM
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