How can sending churches and missionaries create a partnership that lasts for years? Usually it starts with a plan. Team leaders receive a great deal of training, developing strategy plans for engaging a particular people group or urban segment with the gospel. Sending or base churches can easily be apart of these strategies. However it takes work on both sides. The missionary needs to communicate the strategy to the church and then the church needs to choose if they can or are willing to participate in any of the elements of the strategy.

Ty, this is great and all but what does this have to do with social media? Right now we are helping these strategy leaders integrate social media into their strategies. Some can see the potential while others cannot see how Facebook can be used in their strategy plans. That is where we come in to help them. Here are two items that churches can start doing today to partner with mission strategy.

First, church partners can manage social media advocacy for the UPG. Managing a Facebook Page or Twitter account can assist prayer awareness in the states. Trust me, from years of experience on the field, you want as many people praying for your people group as you can find. As missionaries send the church information about the UPG the church members can learn more and know better how to pray. Twitter is know for its Rapid communication style and urgent prayer requests can be sent around the world in a matter of moments. Social media fuels strategy.

Second, partnering church members can also look for people of peace in the social media world. Everyone knows at this point Facebook has over 1 Billion members from almost every nation. Thats 1 Billion potential people who need to hear the gospel. We are focusing on the unengaged and unreached people groups of the Middle East, but the use of social media for the gospel is limitless. I will post more about how churches and college students can share the message of the gospel on Facebook in another series of posts next month. If you can wait that long and want to know now just send me a message.

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We all know some of the basic reasons we use social media in the church. We like to be connected and communicate with each other on a regular basis. Small groups can create community pages, and almost everyone in the church follows the pastor as he tries to figure out how to use Twitter appropriately. But how are people in the church, the believers mind you, how are they using social media for outreach?

One pastor told me about the importance of using ads for people in his community asking them to come and join the church for a Sunday morning worship service. This is not a bad idea. You can even create a special Twitter feed for your prayer team so prayer request arrive to the prayer warriors as fast as possible. But, what about the nations?

How can churches in America have an impact on the nations using social media? I know this might be hard to believe, but its pretty simple. One of my favorite quotes from my time living overseas is, "It's Simple, Not Easy". It is simple to take the ways we use social media in the states to share the gospel and use that on a world level in order to make relationships with people of various people groups. Instead of looking for people that you have things in common with look for people that are different. They might be from a different country, have strange customs, or speak another language beside English. As you build a relationship with this new friend tell them about Jesus. It's pretty much that simple.

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Most people do not realize it, but they already have access to the world in the palm of their hand. Social media continues to bring the whole world together under one roof, or one website. As believers we cannot miss out on this opportunity to share the gospel.

How cool is technology! With a couple of Apps on my iPhone I can quickly communicate with many friends from other nations around the globe. I'm not talking about the news, I am talking about conversations with friends from different nationalities. Have you heard the expression "The World is getting smaller"? Of course, we are educated people, that understand the world is not really getting smaller, but the knowledge of whats going on in the world is more open and understood than ever before. This usually makes things a little easier for every profession. Including mine, as I live overseas, I am still connected to my friends and family in the states. But, also in my ministry I am able to maintain local relationships anywhere in the world thanks to technology and social media. This leads us to ask the question, what is stopping us from making friends from across the globe? The real answer is Nothing! If you wanna know more about making disciples of all nations and starting that process through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter let me know.