Little experiment we’re trying out the next couple of weeks during our high school services – asking students via one of our announcement slides to update their social status on Twitter or Facebook mobile right then and there. If a student is willing to share where they are (church), what they are doing (learning about God) or extending an invitation (come with me next week) then we win. Hopefully a social media student evangelism first step. Excited about the potential of reaching significant virtual social circles.
JG
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Josh Griffin has been in youth ministry for 15+ years and serves as the High School Pastor at Saddleback Church. [
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love that you give every kid an HSM iPhone. way to go.
NO WAY. I had the SAME IDEA last week. Crazy. Great minds think alike, eh?
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Sweet idea – will definitely use it tomorrow night.
We’ve also had students text their friends for answers to questions we’ve asked in our service.
What a simple yet GREAT idea. Thanks for sharing it.
http://www.onlinemissiontrip.com i know you all know this.
so simple it’s brilliant. almost too obvious. me gusta.
(i also liked that matt mcgill’s comment was not only first, but snarky. can i still say “snarky?”)
even working in a medium sized church, I know of many of our students who can do facebook or twitter during our service. I’m going to try to test this out as well. In addition, I’ll challenge those without smartphones to use their status updates to say they are headed to Church…thanks for the good idea