Greg Davis - Technically Speaking

Yesterday, Anthony Coppedge blogged about the importance of networking among those working or volunteering in the worship, creative, and technical arts areas.  This is something that is on my heart to do for 2008 and was first encouraged to do so by Greg Atkinson, back in December when he posted about “Who’s in Your Network”?

Going to MinistryTECH at the begging of April was a great step for me in getting to meet many folks from all over the country.  However, a goal I have for 2008 is to begin a network here in the Delaware Valley. So, today I have launched a Facebook group, “Technical & Creative Arts in the Delaware Valley”. I don’t know all that God might do with this, but I’m hoping to at least provide a place for those folks that are located in the greater Philadelphia/Wilmington area that have a passion in the “technical arts” to join together for support, fellowship, and networking. If that fits you, I hope you’ll join and invite others as well!

I do believe we all serve on the same team for the sake of the Kingdom and not in competition with each other. I hope this group will be just one small way to help foster that spirit here in this little corner of the the globe.

Jesus’ last instructions to his followers on Earth were captured in Matthew 28:19-20 when he said,

19”Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

In this article Jesuits say take word of God to Second Life - Yahoo! News we find that the Jesuits are now encouraging fellow Catholic missionaries to be involved with the virtual world known as Second Life.

I find in encouraging that they are taking such a view and they are not alone.  LifeChurch (based out of Oklahoma) has many physical and virtual locations including an Internet Campus as well as a presence in Second Life Church Campus itself (they purchased a island of 16 acres). 

Over the years and the centuries as man has learned and discovered more about planet earth, we discovered how large the command to “go into all the earth” really is.  In the past half-century we have started to learn more about how large the “world” is as we start to explore space.  Now the definition of “world” seems to be changing again and taking on an entirely new dimension.

Culture and society will always being changing and evolving.  While it is true that there is truly “nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9), there are many different ways in which relationships and communications are used. Is the church ready to take on this new “mission field”?

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Well, I have joined the Facebook bandwagon thanks to the encouragement from Bobby Gruenewald, Pastor, Innovation Leader at LifeChurch.tv and his recent post on the swerve blog.   I joined mostly to learn and discover it’s uses and potential for ministry.  I would be interested to hear if anyone out there has any interesting stories to share about uses of Facebook with ministry (networks, groups, applications, etc).  There does appear to be a lot of potential.

You can find my profile here.  Feel free to look me up and add me as a friend.  If you you not on Facebook already, the sign-up is free and pretty easy. 

I will be doing some comparisions with MyChurch.org for specific use as a ministry tool and will do some follow-up posts here with my observations.  You can find my profile on MyChurch.org here.