connecting with the unreached via mobile ministry

That We Would Be Like the Men of

Issachar

“men who understood the times and knew what

Israel should do”

1 Chron. 12:31

And people from every tongue, tribe

and nation…

86% or more of these religionists [Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims]

globally do not personally know a Christian.

In 2013, the number of mobile-cellular subscriptions

reaches 6.8 billion, corresponding to a global

penetration of 96%

International Telecommunications Union

For the earth will be filled with the

knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the

sea.Habakkuk 2:14

Abu Mohammed

Your Stories

How have you seen mobile impactingthe lives of your people?

How have you seen God use mobile tobring glory to Himself?

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@mobile_advance

Equipping WEC International outreaches with mobile

ministry training, media and tools

Mobile Ministry Forum

Mobile Ministry Forum

The Vision That every unreached

person have the chance to encounter Jesus and His kingdom in a compelling, contextualized fashion through their personal mobile device by the end of 2020.

YawnYet another set-up for anepic fail…

What’s different about thisone?

Hope for the Vision

1) Our potential media access to every people (ethne) of the earth is unparalleled in history.

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2011

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2014

7 7 BillionBillion

2005

2013

Reasons for Hope

2) “Crowd-sourcing” Bible translation is

a growing opportunity.

Reasons for Hope

3) The mobile enables on-the-ground

production of locally appropriate

media.

2004

100 million cameras of any type were sold

in the world

1.5 1.5 BillionBillion phones with phones with cameras were sold in 2012 cameras were sold in 2012

alone!alone!

Reasons for Hope

4) Mobile has its own built-in distribution mechanisms that allow for “viral” transmission of media.

Purdue University’s

Experience in Nigeria

Reasons for Hope

5) The missions world is networking

and partnering together!

Ekko (video)

www.ekkomobile.com

The Vision That every unreached

person have the chance to encounter Jesus and His kingdom in a compelling, contextualized fashion through their personal mobile device by the end of 2020.

Potential Barriers

1) Focusing on smartphones and smartphone apps to the exclusion of 70% of all phones in use today!

The Mobile Ecosystem (current as of

Q4 2013)

“No phone left behind”

Potential Barriers

2) Focusing on internet-based outreach and leaving behind those living “beyond the internet”

Potential Barriers

2) Focusing on internet-based outreach and leaving behind those living “beyond the internet”

Potential Barriers

There are somewhere between 1.7 and 2.2 BILLION souls who have a mobile but are not accessing the internet!

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Potential Barriers

3) Media ministries remaining in a media producer, rather than media enabler, paradigm.

Potential Barriers

4) Security issues that can prevent us from implementing mobile ministry and threaten those reached through it.

Potential Barriers

5) Copyright restrictions that keep the Bible and other outreach media locked down so that it cannot:

a) Be modified to work on phones, put into audio form, translated, etc.

b) Flow freely from phone to phone

But what about sustainability?

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 6:33

The most likely point of failure!

11:00 Hall 2

Biblical Media, Any Lanugage,No Restrictions, for Free

(Tim Jore/Distant Shores Media)

Moving Ahead

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www.mobileministryforum.org

http://www.renewoutreach.com/mobile-ministry/

https://cybermissions.org/moodle

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Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the

name of the LORD our God.

Psalm 20:7

Some trust in mobile and some in the

internet, but we trust in the

name of the LORD our God.

Psalm 2014