about the Day…
What is the Day?
Purpose, scheduled date, sponsoring organizations
Purpose of IE Day?
How it can promote online evangelism
How we help you
Whoever you are, whatever your role, we may have resources to help you
Boost your ministry
How
IE Day
can help existing web evangelism ministries
Outcome hopes
The results we wish to see
Newsletters
Short monthly news by email and RSS feed
FAQs
Anything else you need to know?
Supporting groups
Commendations from wide range of leaders, international groups and denominations
Ways to help
Please help make
IE Day
effective
How to help
Things YOU can do to make
IE Day
known
Link to us
How to link to this site
Partner
How to become a partner
Tell a friend
Please use this ready-made form to pass on news about IE Day
Pray
Prayer for
IE Day
and importance of prayer for any web ministry
Translations
Translations of this site, or pages from it, needed
Free articles
Articles available for reprint, or insertion into another website or newsletter
Wired World
Article: the nature of the Web and its use in evangelism
A Day on the Way
Article: a short explanation of
Internet Evangelism Day
A Tale of Two Golf Clubs
Golfing parable:
A Tale of Two Golf Clubs
(about church websites)
Googling the Gospel
Article: millions of people are searching the Web – we can reach them
Effective church sites
Article: Tips on making church sites that reach the community
Could God Use You?
Article: you may have the gifts to be a web evangelist – WITHOUT being technical
More articles/MP3s
More evangelism related articles for publication in print media and two MP3 introductions
Planning an IE Day
Web awareness focus slot for church service, house-meeting or seminar
Planning intro
Where to start, and the PowerPoint, video clips and other resources you can use
How others did it
Reports from churches and other groups, on how they implemented a focus day
Register
No-obligation expression of interest
Post-Day analysis
Look at how your focus day went
Using drama
The importance of drama in communication. Plus a range of evangelism challenge drama scripts
MP3 music
Free evangelism challenge MP3 music for download
Recommended books
Evangelism-related books you could promote at your church
Publicity & Media
News releases, representatives for interview, other types of publicity
Publicity/news releases
News items and articles for publication
Posters
Ready-made printable poster and flyers
Photos
Royalty-free pictures and graphics to use for IE Day
about the Web…
Unique potential
How the nature of the Web can enable targeted evangelism
Nature of the Web
How the Web works as a communication medium, & differs from other mediums
Perfect mission field?
What would a perfect mission field look like?
Discussion questions
Discussion questions on web communication
Research
Online research studies about web evangelism
Get email alerts
How to get Google alerts for new web content, on any topic. Also, find what other people are searching for
Does it work?
How the Web is reaching people directly, around the world
Real results
Finding God online: examples and testimonies. Plus real-time world map
Kristi’s story
Student is reached by the Everystudent site
Kevin’s story
Kevin and his wife Cathy see a TV advert for
Powertochange .com
Christina’s story
After seeing
The Passion
film, Christina searches online for help
Kasia’s story
Polish woman finds truth on the Internet
Meet web evangelists
17 personal stories: how God is using their differing gifts for outreach
Tell your story
Did you find God online. Are you sharing faith on the Web. Tell us your story.
Dangers
How to protect you and your family from potential online dangers
how to do…
Church sites
Church sites can reach into the community – IF designed for this
Church site strategy
The role of church sites in evangelism
Free evaluation
Free evaluation report to help you develop your church site to reach the community
70+ Tips for church sites
Key elements for successful church sites that reach the community
Add Tips to your site
Syndicate the Tips page into your own website by copy/pasting some easy code
A Tale of Two Clubs
Short golfing parable story:
A Tale of Two Clubs
(for church websites)
Intro video on your site
The value of putting an introductory video on your site, AND distributing it on DVD
News item
News item about the Church Tips web-page, for newsletters and magazines
Church press releases
How to get news about your church into local newspapers and radio
Outreach strategies
The potential for websites to reach non-Christians
Evangelistic pages
How to build outreach websites, with showcased examples
Build a blog
Using blogs for outreach – and how to start one
Video & podcasts
The outreach potential of short video clips. And the use of podcasts
Communicate well
Communicating in ways that can reach non-Christians
Writing testimonies
Angie’s Story – how to write a testimony to reach NON-Christians
Gray Matrix
How to target people at the beginning of their spiritual journey
Outreach case study
Revealing comparison of two women’ websites – one for Christians, one for non-Christians
Jay’s Story
How do non-Christians think? To reach them, we need to know
Avoid jargon
Insider language excludes people – how to write without jargon
Communication blogs
Some of the best blog commentators look at evangelism and communication issues
Test your site
Very many sites lose visitors because of lack of site usability. Learn essential task of testing your site
Style & grammar
Detailed guide to house-style, writing and grammar
Planning a site
Your 2 first steps: Who’s the audience? What’s the purpose?
Increase site visitors
Learn the easy techniques necessary to draw people to your website
Social bookmarking
How social bookmarking can draw people to evangelistic websites
Relate & chat
Meet people in cyberspace: chat, social networking & mobile devices in evangelism
Social networks
There are many ways to meet people online, particularly through 'social networking' sites and blogs
Mobile outreach
Using cell phones and mobile devices for outreach
Second Life
Sharing your faith in the Second Life virtual world
Chat witness
How to share your faith in chat rooms, bulletin boards and YahooAnswers
Outreach screen saver
Free low-key ‘thought starting’ screensaver for your office or home
Training + Help + Volunteer
Learn web evangelism, get help & network, spare-time opportunities
Training courses
Online training courses, video seminars and other training resources
Training videos
Video training shorts, on many web evangelism topics
Books
Best books relating to evangelism and effective web communication
Seminars & events
Conferences and seminars on web evangelism. We can also arrange speakers for these
Guide Network
Network with others on web & mobile evangelism, find resources, help, free software
Opportunities
Sparetime (and fulltime) opportunities in web evangelism – many need no technical knowledge
