My fall 2010 report to the Board of Administration for the Free Methodist Church. I've taken out sensitive data and kept the message and vision on task.

1. INFORMATION
And the Free Methodist Church

3. IMAGINE THIS
• A small girl in Africa with no hope encounters a Free Methodist Missionary
• She begins studying the Bible
• She begins school

4. IMAGINE THIS
• She now has hope.
• She encounters the Holy Spirit.
• She finds purpose in school.
• The missionary, under-resourced and disconnected, has no way to spread this amazing
story.

5. WHAT IF...
What if the missionary had the resources and access to the technology to spread the
message?

6. WHAT IF...
Web Page Title
MISSIONARY'S BLOG
A missionary with access to the right technology posts the story on his blog.
The post is pushed to the blog’s subscribers, prayer partners, donors, and other
interested parties.

7. WHAT IF...
Web Page Title Web Page Title
MISSIONARY'S BLOG FREE METHODIST
Because the story is so powerful it is picked up and put onto the homepage of the
Free Methodist Church.

8. Web Page Title
WHAT IF...
FREE METHODIST
Web Page Title
MISSIONARY'S BLOG
The story spreads to readers who in turn spread it through various
social networking outlets

9. WHAT IF...
Web Page Title
FREE METHODIST
Web Page Title
MISSIONARY'S BLOG
New interested people pick up on the stories through the social media outlets and
are directed back to freemethodistchurch.org and the Missionary’s blog. Every new
person who reads her story is a potential new member, donor, and/or prayer partner.

10. UNPRECEDENTED
OPPORTUNITY FOR FMC
• Never before has the church been able to communicate and converse
with such large numbers of people so instantaneously and effectively. How?
• Growth of global access to technology and therefore to information
• Dramatically lower costs to create, distribute and access information.
• Over 1.7 Billion people are active on the Internet
• 74.2% North America
• 19.4% Asia
• 6.8% Africa

11. OPEN LEADERSHIP
• First time in human history that communication can happen on a
global scale
• The ability to communicate effectively breaks a number of long
standing rules
• Message/content is created centrally
• Message/content is distributed centrally
• Message/content is a oneway street with the reader or
listener unable to interact or comment.
• However - things are changing

12. WHAT IS ALLOWING THIS
CHANGE?
• Growth of access to technology globally
• Mobile
• Cheap
• Pervasive
• Common standards or at least clear winners
• Ability to Publish
• Ability to comment, participate, vote, organize

13. SMART PHONE UNIT VOLUME (M)
200
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

15. WHY THIS MATTERS FOR
FMC?
• History of excellence in writing and publishing
• History of a consistent publishing schedule
• Bishops with giftings in communication
• Transformational occurring activity around the planet
- we have an important story to tell

16. SUGGESTED NEXT STEPS
• Maintain history of publishing. Why?
• Not sure how this will all turn out and it is working
• Commit to new distribution channels immediately
• Web
• Mobile
• Tablet
• Redistribute print material through these new channels
• Encourage publishing, feedback and sharing

17. NEW DISTRIBUTION
CHANNELS
• Current Model
• Magazine (36,000 People)
• Small Email List
• Outdated & Ineffective
Website
• We have the content
• We need to change the way
it is distributed

18. THE MOVE TO MOBILE
CURRENT NEW

19. THE CURRENT WAY
• Slowinformation
turnaround
• No instant access to
additional information

20. THE NEW WAY
• Cost of Distribution: $0
• Almostinstant information
turnaround
• Instant
access to additional
information
• Multiple languages

21. URT PLAN OVERVIEW
Users
Staff & Support Bishops EldersPublic
Elders
Presentation
Layer
Overall User Experience
Staff/Volunteer Portal Bishop Portal Public Website
CMS
Open Source Content Management Platform
Desired Features
and Features
Online Giving Blackbaud (Financials) Church Metrics
Services
External Social Connections Media Distribution Event Management
Missions Email (Communications) Knowledge-Base

22. THE CONNECTED PASTOR
Web Page Title
freemethodistchurch.org
• I’m a minister facing new problems • We are the pastors and staff that
and exciting challenges every day. make the Free Methodist Church
run.
• I have a limited budget and a
constant need for experienced help. • We’ve been there, experienced
almost everything and are ready to
• How do I take our Wesleyan help.
Tradition and make it relevant to
today's evangelicals?
ROI: Our Pastors are not alone. They have thousands of mentors and “staff members” at their
fingertips 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No need to repeat lessons that have already been learned.

23. FM KNOWLEDGE-BASE
COLLECT AGGREGATE CONNECT
Free Methodist Wiki-Style
Sacraments
Church Knowledge-base I want to see news, data
Foundations and metrics from all
around the Free
Methodist community.
Search
Church Instantly Searchable
History
Constantly Expanding
I want to connect with
other pastors to find help
Church
Available Worldwide with problems they have
Documents already solved.
Connects church
leaders and members Pastor
to a wealth of
knowledge.
Church
Data
Allows leaders with I want to learn more
local reach to become about the Free Methodist
international resources. Church and find out how
to get involved.
! Knowledgeable
People
Puts resources
around the world on Church Member
equal footing.

26. INFORMATION
And the Free Methodist Church