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Becoming Intentional About Online Ministry Back in 2002, a friend named Tim Thomas asked me what I thought I’d like to be doing related to ministry five years from then. My response was to be doing something related to ministry online, sharing my thoughts about God’s word, and having an outlet for my creative juices. In that time, I’ve launched several websites. Up until launching this one in July of 2007, my main focus has been one I created to promote my novel, The Brotherhood of the Scroll. Using that site, I write a monthly newsletter I call “Conversations with the Culture” where I use a popular movie and create a devotional to go with it. I create the newsletter in Front Page, and then, using Microsoft Outlook, copy and paste the web page into the body of the email and send it to about 300 subscribers. Now, this is a very low cost, no frills way of doing online ministry. People get the newsletter for free, so if my schedule is really stacked up and I don’t writes something that month, no one is out any money. I now have people who read it all over the world, and even received an invitation to come preach in India once! Very flattering, but that’s not likely to happen any time soon. Recently, I’ve thought a lot about the need to be intentional about ministry. As I’ve been researching my e-book on using the internet to do ministry, I came across a site I’d like to share. A fellow by the name of Drew Goodmanson is a pastor in San Diego, and has launched a company that provides a turnkey solution for web design applications. He even held a seminar and created a web presentation, which you can find access to from his site by clicking here. I hope you’ll take a moment and check it out. Through this page, I hope to share some of the things I’m thinking about relating to online ministry, some sites I’ve found I think you'll find of interest, and share new articles I write. Five years ago, I couldn’t have told you exactly what the vision God had given me was going to look like. But, here I am. This website, Finding Community, has evolved out of a simple concept developed in response to a simple question my friend Tim asked me five years ago. What about you? How is God leading you to be intentional about ministry with the talents He has given you? Thanks, and God bless.
David
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