Selegna is a young staff woman serving with Campus Crusade in Panama.  Scheduled to be a small group facilitator at the MinistryNet Conference we held in Bangkok in November, she knew that it would take many hours of travel to arrive at the conference.  But little did she know the extra travel adventures the Lord had in store for her.  See Selegna’s story.

Thailand was chosen as the location for our conference because we knew that staff and volunteers from over 30 different countries would be attending.  For the majority of these people – who are not Americans, Canadians nor from Western Europe – travel to any international destination can be uncertain, filled with paperwork, delays, visa requirements  and generally very frustrating.  Westerners usually receive more privileges and international travel is much easier.

We chose the location of Bangkok because it is much easier and cheaper for many of our international staff to travel there than destinations in North America.  Thailand is very open ...

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This is the fourth in a series of posts about highlights from the recent MinistryNet conference.

The funniest thing happened to me the other day. I was walking around town and saw this guy wearing a sign around his neck that read “I hope I die in my sleep #iwanttodie #wishIhadtheballstokillmyself”

I thought wow that is crazy he just had his feelings out there for everyone to see. I walked up to him and started to ask him why he wanted to die and why he wished he had the guys to kill himself. Had he heard of Jesus Christ? He had the guts to let himself be killed so that you wouldn’t need to be.

Well as you can guess I didn’t see that guy on the street. I did see it by doing a quick search on twitter for “iwanttodie” and came across how he felt.

People are continually letting people know how they feel on the internet. I bet that guys roommate or friends have no idea he wants to commit suicide.

When Toni shared about how to use searches and search words I felt it was very helpful to know How to start conve...

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What happens when 170 creative volunteers and staff from 32 countries gather in one place for three days to answer the following question? ….

How do we leverage the huge opportunities of the internet to deliver the timeless, unchanging message of Christ in fresh, changing ways?

Earlier this month, my team from Orlando helped host this major conference in Bangkok, Thailand.  Even amidst terrible flooding in the country, our gathering was a major success – thanks to God.

“Bangkok or Bust: Campus Crusade Talks Tech Amidst Historic Thailand Floods“ was the article the Christian Post e-zine wrote detailing.  You can check out the article here.

One of the unique of our conference was spending two hours each morning in small innovative workgroups. Each workgroup made a plan to solve a problem or develop an innovative approach to moving people from making a decision, to being a disciple of Jesus. At the end of the conference, each group presented their proposed solution as a video.  The best ...

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The MinistryNet Conference was a rich time of collaboration, fellowship and learning for those who attended.

Whether you attended in person or online, what are some things that you learned and have brought back to your ministry in your country?

Use this open-thread to share with the VLM community by leaving a comment below.

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• MinistryNet Highlight: A greater vision for VLM
• MinistryNet Highlight: Getting the ball rolling on global collaboration
• MinistryNet Highlight: VLM empowers flood relief

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On our starting day, Ken’s speech on Virtually Led Movement (VLM) direction was clear enough to describe the distributed and loosely-organized VLM activities around the world. My aha moment was from Ken insight saying “if Paul impacts the Romans in his day with out being physically with them and still his messages are impacting our life how it will be using VLM to launch spiritual movement in this generation.” ……..

Read full story here MinistryNet Highlight: A greater vision for VLM

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