A Vision to Reach Hurting People
With help from ForMinistry, a South Carolina church develops a website that fields e-mailed prayer requests from across the country and even around the world.

Are Unsolicited Church E-mails Considered Spam?
I was explaining the tremendous value of mass e-mails in a recent eMinistry workshop when a participant stopped me to ask a question: "Didn't that new Federal spam law make it illegal to send unsolicited e-mails?"

Blogger Predicts Revival via Web
Is the next Great Awakening happening on the Internet? Personal weblogs are the new big tent.

The Bridge Strategy: A Way to Reach Millions
Most people don’t search online looking for Christian material. So what are tney looking for? Take advantage of what people are searching for in order to reach them with the gospel.

Building Communities in Cyberspace
Communicating the Christian message to our emerging generation is a challenge, but the better we understand this generation, the better we will meet the challenge.

The Church-Internet (Dis)connection
We in the church must change our way of thinking about the Internet. If we don't, we'll end up with our own subculture online, just as we have in "real life."

Church Next: eMinistry in the Early 21st Century
Taking advantage of digital opportunities to minister outside the four walls of the church.

Church Websites—Now a Luxury? Perhaps a Necessary Outreach in the Near Future
According to a study just released, the size of a church—and even the age of its pastor—factor into how much that church is using the power of the Internet to enhance its ministry efforts. barely half of all the pastors surveyed say their church maintains a website.

Commissioned to Make Disciples
What is discipleship? And how can the Internet help us learn and teach others a life of discipleship?

Commissioned to the Internet
The World Wide Web provides new, effective and strongly personal tools for evangelism through e-mail, news groups, web pages, Internet Relay Chat, etc. Often you will find people surprisingly open to discuss religious issues and share their own questions and problems about life and faith.

Communicating Christ in Cyberspace
The cyberspace belongs to God, as does all Creation. God's people need to be there to pray, present ,and embody the love of Christ.

Communicating the Gospel on the Internet
One does not have to be a large local church to provide a high quality Internet ministry which may influence the lives of several hundreds or thousands of people worldwide. There are several ways to enhance the effectiveness of your Internet ministry.

Connecting Through e-Vangelism
To spread the gospel, evangelical Christians are using Web sites such as everystudent.com, run from the home of an Orlando woman for the Campus Crusade for Christ. It's an effective high-tech link.

Could God Use You in Internet Evangelism?
Could God use you to reach people for Christ via the Internet? The answer may surprise you!

Creating a Congregational Website That is a Venue for Mission
An excellent paper with sections on why churches create congregational websites; key strategies for creating a church website; and maintaining a website that serves.

Cyber Congregations Go Fishing on the Net
Thousands of seekers log on daily in search of spiritual meaning. How can the church address the spiritual hunger of these many cyber-seekers? Andrew Careaga, author of eMinistry: Connecting With the Net Generation, shows how.

Does Your Website Attract Young Families?
Many young families will visit your website before they ever come inside your building. What they find there will determine whether they visit your church. Is your current website designed to handle this?

Dotcom Churches: Ministry or Marketing?
Across the country, churches are using the latest technology to try to attract new parishioners and stay relevant in an age when "portal" is as much a part of the lexicon as the prodigal son. Its proponents tout web-based religion as a way to reach larger, more diverse audiences and create a high-tech image.

Effective Church Websites for Emerging Generations
This white paper is designed to provide local churches with a thought-provoking resource to help them make decisions regarding Internet strategy in their local area. The paper is viewable in Adobe Acrobat.

Eight Things Every Senior Pastor Needs to Know About E-Ministry
Terrell Sanders offers eight important points to consider when deciding how important a website is for your church. Read how younger people find information about churches and how many people spend time researching churches online before ever visiting a church. He also points out why you should invest in a well-maintained, dynamic website.

Evangelism Editors Review Evangelistic Websites
Tony Whittaker, editor of the Web Evangelism Bulletin, and Andrew Careaga, of e-vangelims.com, review “Who is Jesus Christ?” and “Now Try God.”

Evangelism on the Net
Soul winning online: How does it compare to pew 'n' pulpit ministries? This article shows how to use your website to reach the world for Christ.

Fishing With a Big Net: Using the Web Effectively for Christ
Some great thoughts to consider about online ministry and practical steps towards making an effective website.

Get Ready for E-vangelism
Many people who spend their evenings in cyberspace are looking for spiritual help. Here's how you can take the gospel into the final frontier of the Internet.

Hate and Hope on the Internet
United Methodist Women are encouraged to use the Internet as a tool to stop violence. In particular, this site asks women to search the web for information on racism.

Helping Your Visitors: A State of Mind
What does “helping your visitors” mean exactly? It means writing your sites, newsletters, and emails in such a way as to help each visitor achieve his or her goal. That may sound like a simple task, but it isn’t.

High-Tech For a Higher Purpose
“Digital evangelism” can be an effective tool for reaching audiences who appreciate cutting-edge technology.

How to Make an Evangelistic Web Page
Includes several practical ideas, including language, layout, and the type of content you might want to feature.

How to Use the Web to Reach Millions for Christ
"If you want to make an evangelistic page, don't write about the gospel."

In the Company of Cyber Seekers
It’s clear that many people go online in search of community and relationships. So how can churches help those seekers find true community and the ultimate relationship – a relationship with Jesus Christ?

Internet: A New Forum for Proclaiming the Gospel
Pope John Paul II argues that the Internet can offer magnificent opportunities for evangelization if used with competence and a clear awareness of its strengths and weaknesses.

Internet Cafes in “Unreached Parts of the Globe
Internet cafes may be a key to reaching the unreached people groups, says John Edmiston of CyberMissions.org. CyberMissions maintains an entire section (mostly PDF documents) about developing Internet cafes among unreached people groups.

Internet Evangelism
Internet evangelism is just scratching the surface. Reports indicate that more and more Internet users are exploring religion with 1 billion people expected to be online worldwide by 2005.

Internet Evangelism: An Expanding Mission Field
Read about the latest ideas about the potential of online ministry for evangelism, as discussed at the Internet Evangelism Coalition annual meeting in Chicago, September 2004.

Internet Evangelism Day Report
The first Internet Evangelism Day advocated and raised awareness for the incredible potential of the Internet for evangelism and ministry. This report tells of its impact to hundreds and thousands.

Internet Mission Field: Christian Chat
Scott Powers talks about his own Internet mission field: Christian Chat. Scott begins with: The internet is fast growing and I think it's about time for webmasters and ministers to start utilizing the net for ministry and mission on a much higher level. God has so graciously provided us with this vast field of mission where we could reach millions for literally pennies on the dollar.

Making Church Websites Evangelistic
Church websites can be an integral part of a church's outreach to the community and beyond. However, the majority of church websites, apart from listing times of meetings, do not take the needs of non-Christian site visitors into account and fail to use the potential of this medium. Yet the Web is proving a powerful tool for churches whose sites are designed for non-Christians.

Making Your Website a Powerful Tool
While many churches are rushing in to make sure they have a website, the real question should be “How can our website create a vital connection to unchurched families in the community?”

Mission in the Third Millennium and the Information Superhighway: Challenges for Evangelization
Fr. George Plathottam, director of Don Bosco communications, examines the impact of the new information superhighway and the consequent challenges evangelization.

New Technologies Changing the Shape of World Mission
New communication technologies have the ability to transform means and methods of human interaction, and may ultimately also influence the content of the message itself. Tools that themselves are neither "good" nor "bad" need to be evaluated and judged on the basis of a fundamental criteria, "How effective is this tool in communicating the gospel and help people come to faith in Lord Jesus Christ, without letting the tool disturb the message?"

Online Evangelism Isn’t Always Easy
Even on the Internet, where people discuss religion almost as freely as they talk about sex, evangelism can be a tough calling.

Pastor Uses Web Sites to Increase Church Outreach
The Rev. Pat Umberger oversees a small church with a congregation of thousands. According to an Associated Press report, Umberger’s congregation extends well beyond southwestern Wisconsin through his operation of three websites.

Spiritual-Internet Use on the Rise
According to a recent Pew study, 64 percent of Americans have used the Internet for spiritual or religious perpuses. When considering these numbers and the ever-growing popularity of the Internet for spiritual purposes, you can’t help but consider your website and online resources.

Technology, Ministry, and Missions: An Interview
We chat with Pastor Dave Lee about how he uses the internet for his ministry and missionary efforts.

Ten Evangelism and IT Lessons From One of America’s Biggest Churches
Microsoft’s technology evangelist Robert Scoble shares 10 lessons about using technology to enhance ministry from Fellowhsip Church in Dallas.

Virtuous Living in the Virtual World
In his book Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age Quentin Schultze critiques the 21st century citizen’s tendency to fall into what he calls “informationism.” Schultze defines this as “a quasireligious faith in the power of information to improve our lives,” the belief that information offers us “social progress and personal happiness.”