Initiatives

Strategic Digital Outreach is involved in a number of different web evangelism initiatives in various stages of completion. The following represents a sampling of those initiatives.

Community Websites
We have a two-tiered vision for using the web to help churches and ministries in a local area present the good news of God’s grace to those who have not yet committed their lives to Jesus Christ.

Believing that authentic Christian community is the foundation of all effective outreach (John 17:21-23), our vision begins with a website for believers in a particular locality. This initial website is designed to facilitate community-building across denominational and individual church lines. ChristianCruz is a good example of the first tier of our vision.

The second tier of our vision is the development of a website for unbelievers in a particular locality. Matching a comprehensive resource directory for a county or region with hundreds of profiles of local believers facilitates ongoing contact between believers and unbelievers around common life experiences and interests. More information on this second tier of our strategy can be found in our white paper on the subject: A Strategy For Local Internet Outreach.

PeopleSavers
PeopleSavers are screen savers designed to encourage and facilitate prayer for unreached people groups. A sample PeopleSaver, Pray for the Jula of Mali, is available here. These screen savers are updatable with a simple software application so that new prayer needs for a particular people group can be quickly broadcast to the desktops of all those who have installed the screen saver.

MissionSavers
MissionSavers are screen savers designed to encourage and facilitate prayer for missionaries. These screen savers are updatable so that the missionary can broadcast new prayer requests to the desktops of their friends and supporters through a simple software application. A sample MissionSaver can be downloaded here (a promotional screen saver for InterServe, an international and interdenominational fellowship of Christians committed to each other in partnership and for service to the peoples of South and Central Asia and the Middle East.

Contextualized Websites
Websites which are contextualized for the culture of a particular region or country or for a particular non-Christian religion can be powerful tools for spreading the gospel. We are currently involved in the initial planning stages of websites to be used as the home page of computers in cyber cafes in three different third world countries. Matched with a contextualized website for the dominant religion in those countries, we hope to facilitate the spread of the good news to the most influential members of their societies.

If you have an interest in participating in any of these initiatives in some way, or would just like more information, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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You may be interested in reading these articles which enumerate core principles of the strategy we advocate:

Effective Church Websites For Emerging Generations
Investigating the various ways in which a church's website can be targeted toward unbelievers in a church's local community.

A Strategy For Local Internet Outreach
How can the internet be used for evangelism and outreach while maintaining an environment of authentic Christian community?

Flawed Follow Up Or A Flawed Philosophy of Evangelism?
The ease with which we can “share the gospel” online can actually short-circuit the God-ordained process by which unbelievers are brought to faith.

Should We Include A Gospel Presentation On Our Websites?
Should conversion be our immediate goal in our internet evangelism efforts?

A Strategic Opportunity For The Church
A proposed strategy in which a church would use short video profiles of members of their congregation to entice unbelievers in their local area to consider the value of a local congregation’s ministry in their own lives.

2 John 12
Is there something incomplete about digital communication?

Thu, September 04, 2008 at 09:14 am
Frank : very happy to reconnect with an old friend on Facebook!

Tue, September 02, 2008 at 10:31 am
Frank : reading a great article from flyte.biz about how microblogging is the future of communications. http://ping.fm/IT0XL

Sat, August 30, 2008 at 06:54 am
Frank : looking forward to a weekend of watching my daughter play soccer.

Thu, August 28, 2008 at 03:32 pm
Frank : reviewing SEO recommendations from our partner.

Wed, August 27, 2008 at 09:53 pm
Frank : Going to try and do some work on that major website relaunch/redesign to which I've been referring.

When the Luis Palau Evangelistic Association wanted to use the internet to promote their city festivals, they turned to Strategic Digital Outreach. Read more ....

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Web Development
Designwise Studios
DirectSteps
RockBeatsPaper
SparrowStyle
Turtle Interactive

Content Management
Expression Engine

Web Hosting
DreamHost

Email Management
Constant Contact

We work with several different organizations in exploring ways in which digital means can be used to reach an increasingly digital world. Some of these organizations are more traditional clients. Some are friends. All are our partners in the gospel (1 Corinthians 3:9). Invariably, we learn as much from them as they do from us. Here is a sampling:

David & Linda Arzouni
Assemblies of God missionaries to West Africa, based in Mali (the land of Timbuktu).

Assemblies of God
The Northern California and Nevada District, based in Sacramento, California.

India Prayer Drive
A 21-day prayer drive through the nation of India.

IreneDias.com
Although the suffering they face is severe, this is not a story of despair, but of an incredible faith and even more of an incredible God who sustains His followers with lavish grace, extravagant kindness, and unrelenting love.

Luis Palau Evangelistic Association
Proclaiming the Lord's Good News to the millions of people who have yet to respond to the Gospel.

Sacred Ink
Joyfully declaring the gospel to the tattoo subculture.

Santa Cruz Bible Church
Their evangelism department focuses on marketplace ministries.

ShareFest Santa Cruz County
Churches in Santa Cruz County, California join together to become a bridge from the church to the community through work projects designed to bless the community.

TimeOut Conference
Enabling a deeper relationship with God and more effective relationships with people.

Wake Up! Santa Cruz
Presenting the claims of Christ to the business community in Santa Cruz, California.

These are projects which we have initiated (either individually or as members of a team) in our efforts to use digital means to spread the gospel:

MissionEquip
MissionEquip.com was established to provide resources to missionaries and short-term missions teams traveling worldwide.

ChristianCruz
ChristianCruz.com is a localized portal for believers living in Santa Cruz County, California.

Prodigal God
ProdigalGod.com, a work in progress, is designed to provide biblical instruction to the wider body of Christ through the use of video teaching segments and written articles.

Christian Screen Savers
ChristianScreenSavers.com offers a selection of high-quality, inexpensive Christian screen savers which reflect biblical themes. Proceeds from the sale of these screen savers are used to support the work of Strategic Digital Outreach.

Blogs I Read

Adventures Of A Web Evangelist
The Appian Way
BetaChurch.org
BlogMinistry
BlogRodent
Boyink Interactive
Carpe' Digital
Christian Web Trends
Church Beauty
Church Communications Pro
Church Marketing Sucks
ChurchTechToday
Church Website & Blog Ideas
digital.leadnet.org
Digital Ministry
The Digital Sanctuary
e-vangelism.com
Effective Church Web Sites
Effective Web Ministry Notes
Equip Blog
Evotional
GodBit
Goodmanson
Gospelcon
Heal Your Church Website
If Jesus Had A Website
Leave It Behind
MicroExplosion
Outside The Box Ministry
Sacred Digital
So You Want A Church Website?
The Ultimate Issue
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