2014-05-16T06:56:27-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/phone/ http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/12335 2014-05-16T06:56:27-05:00 The latest infographic from GMI (below) charts the huge changes in Africa over the last 20 years, and also highlights the growth of mobile phone access from zero to near universal. The huge benefits to Africa of improved communication through mobile and the Internet have been covered frequently in many blogs and reports – economic growth, development, health and education are all being transformed through digital. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/12039?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter 2014-02-06T10:56:30-05:00 You may well have experienced a phone conference call as chaotic and fruitless as the one in this humor sketch from Tripp and Tyler. It presents a face-to-face meeting as if it were telephone conference, with all the downsides present and correct. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/12021 2014-01-28T06:44:24-05:00 GEM's simple 'flipbook' smartphone evangelistic app that summarizes the sweep of the biblical narrative is now available on Android and iOS, and in multiple languages. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/11750 2013-10-31T16:38:31-05:00 Mobile is the most incredible opportunity for evangelism and discipleship, not least in the Majority World, where a mobile phone is perhaps the one piece of digital equipment that many people will ever own. Here are two mobile apps, one for Africa, and one for sharing video shorts in multiple languages. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/11735 2013-10-23T15:27:03-05:00 The Mobile Ministry Forum (MMF) Consultation at the Wycliffe Bible Translator Headquarters in December, in Orlando, FL, is the key gathering for people interested in learning how to use mobile technology for ministry outreach. This 3-day conference includes TED-style presentations, discussions, ministry field reports, workshop breakouts, and networking time. The call is to anyone using mobile technology in a ministry context, creating apps or content, or anyone interested in starting a mobile ministry. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/11567 2013-09-16T08:45:56-05:00 The Mobile Ministry Training Course is a newly expanded, 6-week online course available to help introduce any Christian to ministry opportunities using mobile devices (phones and tablets). It is usually offered twice a year http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/11466 2013-08-20T11:21:39-05:00 It's rare to see a new word born and taken into worldwide common usage within a month. But that's what has happened with 'phubbing' – a contraction of 'phone snubbing. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/11253 2013-07-17T07:34:14-05:00 Because mobiles reach everywhere, everyone can be reached. Here's an example of sharing the good news in a 'Creative Access Nation', reported by the Mobile Advance missions resource site... http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/10570 2013-04-09T07:27:27-05:00 InterVarsity have released a smartphone app, the New World Gospel Presentation, which enables you to share the good news by finger-drawing on your touch screen over a preset image, along with your own verbal presentation and discussion. InterVarsity explains... http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/9417 2012-10-02T18:08:17-05:00 Churches, ministries and the missions community are starting to explore the incredible potential of mobile phones in evangelism and discipleship. This free 40-page book looks particularly at the options in the Majority World