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Happy Internet Evangelism Day!
I just wanted to take a minute to wish everyone a Happy Internet Evangelism Day! This video is great and will tell you all you need to know:
Visit the website at InternetEvangelismDay.com, then try some internet evangelism of your own. You could:
- Blog about your Christian faith.
- Post a Facebook Note about a time in your life that was difficult and how God carried you through.
- Make an effort to spread awareness about Internet Evangelism Day.
What are you going to do today to celebrate and spread the Word online?
A Star is Born: MovingToDubuque.com
Well, I just put up my first Joomla! website in a long time. I had tried it back when it was “Mambo,” and it wasn’t ready, but that was several years ago. Anyway, the Lord of Life website task force realized a month or two ago that Dubuque has a large number of people getting ready to move to the area as part of IBM’s relocation from Rochester, MN. We wanted to provide a way to help those people get moved and situated smoothly. Since Minnesota is so very Lutheran, we also wanted to let them know that the Lutheran churches in the area are available and friendly and such. Thus, MovingToDubuque.com.
The site has very little on it so far, just a list of Lutheran churches and a welcome message, but we envision listing key businesses, schools, etc. It’s not a replacement for the Dubuque Chamber of Commerce website, but it can be a user-friendly supplement. We also want to draw upon seminarians’ (and others’) tips for packing and unpacking, as we’ve gotten to be pretty much pros at the moving thing by now.
While tomorrow is Internet Evangelism Day, this site isn’t about evangelism. We’re not trying to convert people or persuade them to be Lutherans (or Christians, for that matter). Instead, this site is a vehicle for hospitality. We hope it gets used and re-used in the coming days.
Internet Evangelism Day – April 26
Internet Evangelism Day poster
In honor of this year’s upcoming Internet Evangelism Day, I have been working on a couple of projects that will be revealed in upcoming days. First and foremost, I have been conducting a survey of ELCA church websites in order to correlate the quality of congregational sites with demographic trends over the last few years. I hope to have the results of that study out soon (though not, unfortunately, in time for IED). I’m also working on an update to my congregation’s website as well as a site designed to assist a large influx of new residents to the Dubuque area in the next few months.
When those are launched, I’ll be sure to post it here and trumpet it to the world. In the meantime, though, if you are thinking about connections between the church and technology as I am, the IED website is filled with excellent resources, including a comprehensive church website evaluation tool and a new blog about internet evangelism issues.
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