Internet Evangelism Day, that is.
The third annual Internet Evangelism Day will take place this year on April 29. This is a great opportunity for your church or ministry to highlight the potential for the use of the internet in the completion of the Great Commission. The Internet Evangelism Day website is a vast compilation of resources to help you do just that. I would strongly encourage all churches, ministries, and individuals to visit the site and give consideration to how you can promote the this worldwide annual focus day.
Here is a press release from the Internet Evangelism Day team which will give you more information:
"We’d love to use the Web for outreach, but we don’t know how,” is a frequently heard sentiment. Internet Evangelism Day answers this need, by offering churches and other groups the means to create a web awareness focus spot in their activities on (or near) Sunday, April 29. By using free downloads from the Internet Evangelism Day website — PowerPoint, video clips, music, drama scripts or handouts — churches can demonstrate to their members the huge potential of the Web for evangelism.
The website also carries a wide range of pages explaining how best to build church websites, write blogs, create video clips, and interact in many other ways with the worldwide web community, to share the gospel.
Churches who have used these materials are excited. “People were challenged and inspired! As a result, we will review our church website, add evangelistic signature blocks to emails, and learn how to use bulletin boards and chat rooms for evangelism,” said a church in Australia.
“I want to thank you for the free resources you have provided through your website. This is a huge help for small churches such as ours,” claimed a church leader in California.
One surprising aspect that the IE Day team emphasizes: web evangelism is for anyone, not just the technically gifted. “There are many ways to share your faith online, without any technical background at all,” says IE Day Coordinator Tony Whittaker.
The Internet Evangelism Day website is at InternetEvangelismDay.com.
And you can listen to a 3-minute MP3 audio introduction to IE Day at InternetEvangelismDay.com/audio.
I believe that the internet provides today's church with a historic opportunity .... to tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love in ways which could only have been imagined in times past. The objective of this website is to explore the various ways in which today's technology can be used to spread the gospel around the world.
