In the latest issue of The International Journal of Frontier Missions, there’s a look at the use of and the impacts towards ministry engagements in the mission field in the article The Little Phone that Could: Mobile-Empowered Ministry. Here’s a snippet:
…After the commemorative dinner in the morning tent, Abu Mohammed took the role of emcee for the evening, regaling us with tales of his hunting exploits and the skills he had used to track down and kill his prey. I was amazed when he produced a mobile phone from his pocket and pulled up a video shown him brandishing his scoped hunting rifle as he posed next to various animals he had bagged. Wow! Not only had this forty-something “man’s man” embodying the ideas of his people taken his video clips and assembled them into an impressive show on his phone, but he had even added a popular local tune in the background. Yes, I had known that the mobile phone was making tremendous inroads among these people, but this meshing of all that was truly and agelessly representative of their culture with the latest and greatest of the 21st century took my breath away!
Read the rest of The Little Phone that Could: Mobile-Empowered Ministry (PDF), and the rest of the July-August issue at International Journal of Frontier Missions. This item is listed with other Mobile Ministry Case Studies and Reports.
~ Via Visual Story Network, Mobile Media Ministry working group
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[Video] Chris While Ministries Talks Mobile Ministry
Thursday, March 1st, 2012Was sent this video a little bit ago from Chris White Ministries. We’ve talked some with them previously about their efforts towards distributing electronic Bibles to pastors in Kenya and India as the cost of doing so with paper Bibles stretched budgets and capacities thin. In this video, Chris talks about mobile ministry as he will be applying it on an upcoming ministry trip, including some good tips about paying attention to the types of devices those pastors will use, the type of training that would be able to be provided, a mobile content strategy using Phone Publish, and some distribution strategies ussing Bluetooth and WiFi.
The items talked about in this video are happening in several areas, but are most often being put into practice in developing nations. Within the Kiosk Evangelism Project we explored using items talked about here in both developed and emerging nations. We’ll have some more case studies from them to publish soon.
If you have questions on anything in this video, definitely put those in the comments here or directly to Chris White Ministries. Mobile Ministry is happening. This is the intersection and what one of the many responses to it can look like. How do you want to step into this?
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