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Springbok and TOM

August 27, 2009 by Keith Seabourn Leave a Comment

Springbok

“We’re having Springbok pie with Chutney for dinner,” said our hostess Marie Dell. Springbok is a South African antelope. It tasted like venison (meat from deer) which I enjoy. But I’d never had it in a pie. A “pie” means a crust, something like a chicken pot pie. Chutney is a spicy relish made from vegetables or fruit. Good dinner!!!

I asked where the Springbok had come from. Marie’s husband Stefan had taken his discipleship group hunting. They had licenses for 5 springbok. We were eating from one of them.

Sounds like my kind of discipleship group! Maybe a transfer to South Africa will be in our future!

South African group

Nicholas and Pravani wanted to learn about TOM and other tools to build movements on their campuses. TOM is our nickname for a Facebook application called Together on Mission. TOM helps build movements through several momentum-building activities like

  • encouraging praying for one another
  • encouraging students to identify their “sphere of influence” whom they hope to influence for Christ
  • sharing stories contributed by students of evangelistic opportunities
  • helping students find a Bible study group and join it
  • reporting statistics of God’s activities on the campus

We recently released TOM version 1. Nicholas and Pravani quickly grasped how TOM could help them with their students. They saw how TOM could be used to launch ministries on campuses where they are not able to go.

More photos are available on our photo site.

Filed Under: ccc, Ministry, Travel

Interesting approach to online ministry

August 8, 2009 by Keith Seabourn Leave a Comment

I read an interesting article this morning by Paul Watson, 6 Strategic Elements of Online Ministry and Gospel Planting. Starting from Luke 10:1-12, Paul outlines his 6 strategic elements. Paul’s 6 elements are helpful. Other insightful things for me are:

  • Start with existing communities, listening and conversing while looking for a person of peace (like a Cornelius, see Acts 10:1-2).
  • Work with the person of peace to begin a discovery bible study in which the person invites his friends (as Cornelius did, Acts 10:24).
  • Be willing to move from house to house, or community to community, looking for the God-fearers who want to learn more and are willing to take some leadership responsibility in bring others together.

What do you think about this strategy?

Filed Under: Ministry Tagged With: online ministry

Sponsoring Bibles

May 21, 2009 by Keith Seabourn 1 Comment

I’ve joined the Bible sponsors, or maybe even the Bible smugglers. I’ve distributed 4 Bibles in 2 languages in the past 4 days. Anytime my computer is turned on and connected to the internet, I’m available to help provide Bibles around the world.

I recently learned of this cool way to help provide audio Bibles to many countries, including those where it’s difficult to distribute Bibles. Click here to read a good article.

In the past, some of our evangelistic websites have been successfully blocked by governments in some parts of the world. This works because the website is in one location and governments can block that specific address. But this audio Bible distribution tool spreads the downloads around to hundreds or thousands of computers. Here’s what they say about it:

The best part is that it’s virtually untraceable. It also is virtually unblockable. The Audio Bible Ambassador is the perfect tool for church planters and evangelists in countries where persecution makes Bible distribution dangerous. Even if government officials catch one sender, they can’t catch everyone when the information comes from a million computers across the world.

Click here if you want to get involved

Filed Under: ccc, Ministry Tagged With: evangelism, outreach

Block party with a purpose

April 26, 2009 by Keith Seabourn 2 Comments

magdalenaKay and I tried something last night. Along with several of our Campus Crusade teammates who live in our area of town, we threw a block party for our neighbors. We invited about 30-40 households to a movie under the stars. We set up at the end of a dead-end street. We showed the movie Magadelena – Released from Shame.

Shame is the ball and chain that holds many people to their pasts. The power of shame is broken by forgiveness. Many people no longer feel guilt, but almost all feel shame or embarrassment over things they have done. This movie traces the life of Jesus through the eyes of Mary Magdalene, who experience Jesus forgiveness.

We had guests from two households. Including those of us who hosted the event, we had about 15 people. So the turnout to the movie wasn’t overhwhelming.

But, we have met neighbors in 30-40 homes. We have shown them we are interested enough to walk through the neighborhood and invite them to something. We have identified ourselves as Christians. Like a lifeguard at the beach, when there is an emergency, everyone looks to the lifeguard. We hope that we’ll have opportunities to talk further with neighbors as life’s crises occur.

And, it was a great evening at the movie!

Filed Under: ccc, Ministry

Training in India

March 3, 2009 by Keith Seabourn 1 Comment

Sure glad we had that final cup of coffee
Enjoying coffee and tea

Kay and I are in Bangalore, India. This has been an interesting trip. We missed a connection in Atlanta due to ground fog delays. We had a great time in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Now were in India.

After arriving late, we slept for a few hours then joined the training session. We have put photos online from our first day.

We are helping train staff in the use of our measurements tool where we are capturing statistics of the amazing things God is doing around the world.

Off to breakfast and another day of training.

Filed Under: Ministry, Travel Tagged With: training

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