In Part 3 Jim shares about Gifts of Water, an initiative of Water Ministries International.  Not only is the cause outstanding but their new media campaign serves as a great model for engagement.

You can join then or jump in at any time during the following 10 weeks.
• Goal: 100 communities get safe water – potentially up to 300,000 people!!
• Goal: 100 communities hear the Living Water message of God’s love for them.
• Goal: Deliver this good news to 100 communities by Christmas 2010.

Jim Gray is the Principal at Creative Fuel Studios. He is a true missional entrepreneur and has various projects, blogs, and twitter accounts going at the same time.

In Part 2 Jim and I discuss the advantages of thinking strategically about using new media. So often ministries dive in without thinking through their goals and context, and end up below average results.

Jim Gray is the Principal at Creative Fuel Studios. He is a true missional entrepreneur and has various projects, blogs, and twitter accounts going at the same time.

Jim Gray is the Principal at Creative Fuel Studios. He is a true missional entrepreneur and has various projects, blogs, and twitter accounts going at the same time.

I asked him about what he has been up to recently to encourage entrepreneurial Christians to keep starting a finding new projects to work on to enhance their skills.

He also talks about the good things that happen when ministries and churches use new media to communicate with those inside and out of their ministry.

Check out Jim’s new site Three-Thirty Pee-Em!

Thank you so much for your engagement and interaction these last three years. I’m hopeful that by expanding the people contributing content to the blogference that the learning and dialogue will increase and encourage you to lead more boldly and passionately for Jesus!

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Brendon Patubo, Intern with Campus Crusade for Christ, Epic Ministry at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo shares his vision and strategy for using video to communicate.

The first episode of the RE-Think Blogference podcast has launched! We are still getting the podcast listed on iTunes but right now you can listen online by clicking on the link below.

Dan Birch, CCC staff at Arizona State University and I discussed some of the thoughts and questions posed during a great twitter conversation. To get a sample of the conversation click here (you will need to scroll through this Twitter list but it’s worth it!).

What we noticed from the Twitter conversation is that staff are passionate about reaching out to non-believers during the first few weeks of school, but also have to manage the reality that many Christians are looking to find a community to join. These Christians often form the backbone of a local ministry’s leadership team and over time can be developed and trained to reach many of their peers for Christ.

So how do you manage the need to gather and retain Christians while still reaching out and engaging non-Christians?

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