Today, I want to talk with you about 3 things: Multiplying the impact of our staff in helping laborers live and disciple among the lostReaching the second largest generation in historyLeveraging the investment of billions to advance the gospel Bottom: Do we want to collaborate with a number of other organizations to maximize the use of social media to advance the Gospel
CoMission experience - walk out across the forest. Things happening, but pretty normal. Come to a raging stream and everything seems alive. Exuberant growth and activity. Can choose to cross over and continue as before, or turn and follow the stream.
We’ve come to a new, raging stream. Social networks have over 1 billion accounts - Facebook over 400 million next year96% of Gen Y has joined a social networkOver 5 billion mobile device accounts by 2012
A recent poll showed that Text messaging - most used method for Gen Y except in cases of urgency. Not preferred by our generation, it certainly is for Gen Y. And yet , one of the fastest growing segments on Facebook is women over 55.
The Obama campaign changed the way that political campaigns will be run. This sounds a lot like recruiting and enabling laborers to live and disciple among the lost
Progression from low commitment to high commitment Progression in resourcing. Put tools in hands of common person usually reserved for professional
Several years ago CCCI began working on social networking Created a campus site, but could not pay the students to go there - friends were on Facebook Rewrote using Facebook platform Flow of grads - go to a city and join the TOM group there - help with housing, roommates, getting into ministry
Steve Dueck has developed community life to sit on top of ning
1 is essentially done - business plan 2 is in process once there is buy in from founders 3 will include CCCI developers plus others 4 is being done as we speak
At this point we are not committed to anything, but Field Leaders are asking for it