I have been in a conversation with Ben Simpson regarding a post by Steve Knight in which he includes a video of Shane Hipps critiquing the possibility of online Christian community. This is a subject about which I have thought a great deal as I lead a project at Resurrection to develop an Internet Campus.
I [...]
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I’ve been at the Methodist Congress on Evangelism this week with Chuck Russell. This is the annual national evangelism conference for the United Methodist denomination. Chuck and I were asked to present on the role of a congregation’s website in evangelism. Chuck covered the basics and I talked about sermon content delivery, social networking and [...]
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This morning we went back to the LifeChurch Edmond campus to meet with Brandon Donaldson and Terry Storch. When we arrived, Brandon showed us the new Digerati office and the Internet Campus studio.
We then spent a couple of hours picking Brandon’s brain on everything from congregational care to budgeting to vision. I’ll post details as [...]
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I’m in Oklahoma City with Chuck Russell, Brian Slezak, and Andrew Conard to benchmark LifeChurch’s Internet Campus by observing them in action and by meeting with Terry Storch (Digerati Pastor) and Brandon Donaldson (Internet Campus Pastor).
Our day began with attending the 10:00 service (”experience” in LifeChurch parlance) at the Edmond campus where the Global Operations [...]
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Terry Storch, LifeChurch.tv
Volunteers: Vols are involved in every aspect of Internet Campus: technology, greeting, communications, counseling, missions, etc.
Giving: They have a way to permit people to donate without having an online account. Done via PayPal. They’re working on better UIs for online giving. Difficult to design a system that works equally well for physical campuses [...]
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Social networking and social media have been near the top of my mind since our senior pastor first announced our Internet campus initiative. I see social networking as the primary method of reaching our target audience – tech-savvy people who "live" online. The Internet campus will grow as participants share church-generated content with friends through [...]
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