It is imperative as we go out to fulfill the Great Commission that we go to where people are. And if we are going to reach the emerging generation, then that means that we must go on the internet, particularly onto social networks to engage them in conversation aout the gospel.
Finding ways in which we can do this successfully is one of the main goals of my work in developing creative evangelism strategies for our campuses.
In July we took three students from Hong Kong to New Zealand for V20, a conference of 600 students from all over the Asia-Pacific region. Usually at conferences like these in New Zealand we would have a day of outreach in the local community. However, with 600 students, this would have been overwhelming for the small local community where we were situated. Therefore we explored the possibility of running an online component to our outreach. We ended up with 200 students – a third of those at the conference participating in our online outreach. All of them were crowded into a small chape...