Blogging Ministry

Found on the eMinistryNotes blog maintained by “maintained by a few full-time staff members of Campus Crusade for Christ, International.” The video is a teaching by Rob Williams: “a tutorial for how to setup and use WordPress.com in the context of having a ministry website as part of an overall communication plan.”             *Top

Found this browsing on the eMinistryNotes site.  It is posted at the Rob and Patricia Williams blog.  Another incredible teaching by Rob using Powerpoint and mp3.               *Top

Millions of people are involved in blogging, look at blogs everyday, and search the internet. There are 10s of millions of blogs that post about religion and proudly wear the title of ‘Godblogs’ and probably even more websites that can be identified as religious.

Many of those sites are produced by the writers as a hobby, and then there are other sites which are obviously designed to be an internet ministry. Sometimes the lines are blurred, there are many hobby sites that really do minister to people.

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Soon nearly every family in America rich or poor will have a computer or access to one and/or access to the internet. Internationally, the internet is growing at a phenomenal rate. As a media for ministry the potential is really unlimited.

It is really amazing how many people can be reached and how many nations can be touched by a very simple ministry located on the World Wide Web. Blogging is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to enter the world of world-wide ministry through the internet.

A year ago I barely knew how to even use a computer. Now I have 9 blogs which are read by more than 1000 people per week from all over the world. Actually folks from 106 different countries have logged into my sites so far. Some from places that I have never heard of.

This is really not very remarkable; anyone should be able to get this far in a year. You see I am really a technophobe and the whole thing has been a struggle and it still is at times. The point is if a 59 year old Luddite like me can get this far, anyone can. In fact most should be able to be far more successful than I have been.

My best site is ranked by Technorati at only 140,894. Which means there are 140,893 blogs which are better. However, Technorati keeps track of 71.3 million blogs, so I should really be excited. Actually none of my sites are much more than a small blip on the World Wide Web, yet as a ministry, I am reaching more people than I ever thought was possible.

This is the first article of a series. I plan on writing about some of my personal experiences with different blogging ministries and explore potential types of ministries that might benefit from the use of blogs. Next: “Why Blogging? -A Bible Study Example“              *Top

For years I have taught Bible studies at church and in small home groups, usually to groups of from 10-50. Last year I decided to put a Bible study on the internet utilizing a blogging program. It is not a very successful site and certainly not well known nor even that impressive, but it was read by over 75 different people last week, plus more (an undetermined number) accessed it through 43 feeds. In addition, they came to the site from 9 different countries. All in the last 7 days.

Now here is the best part. Nearly every lesson that I have posted so far is read by someone every week. The first lesson that I wrote a year ago was read by someone in the UK. The point is, the same effort that you put into preparing to teach one class on one occasion, can be multiplied on the internet where the lesson can potentially be read by someone everyday for as long as you maintain your blog.

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