Mobile Devices in Evangelism

and World Missions in a Digital

Age

Timothy Jore
www.distantshoresmedia.org

Media use in 2000

Media use in 2010

The rise of the mobile phone in 10

years

The rise of the mobile phone in 1 year

In each minute were together...

71 babies

406 new mobile phones

What can a mobile phone

do?

Why is mobile growing so rapidly?

Communication

&
social connectivity

Economic

opportunities
Information

&

education
Entertainment
Content

creation

so what?

Everyone, everywhere is
equipping themselves
with the technology to
hear (and watch) the
Gospel.

Sideloading enables a
crowd-sourced,
low-cost, Internetindependent content
distribution model

Mobile Evangelists

Portable Hotspot
100s

of GB of
evangelistic videos

Provides

WiFi

hotspot
Web

downloads to
any WiFi-capable
phone

Which is easier to smuggle into a

limited-access country?

The only library some will ever have

books
audio

video

A tool to create, not just consume

books
audio

video

The Mobile Ministry Forum

http://mobileministryforum.org
Consortium

of ministries using mobile

Learning

together

Working

together

2nd

Annual Consultation, December 11-13

Questions?

A Calling

How will we reach the least of

these?

The traditional content-creation model

An emerging content-creation model

Features of this new model

Openly

collaborative

Self-selecting
Massively

distributed

Technology

(mobile)-

enabled
Incredibly

capable

Traditional model: Britannica

120,000
1

articles (web)

language

<5,000

contributors

restricted

read-only

access,

Openly collaborative model: Wikipedia

20+

million articles

~270

languages

15.7

million
contributors

unrestricted

access,
read/write (open
collaboration)

Volumes of Britannica

Volumes of Wikipedia

A brief, painless guide to

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

copyright just
happens

copyright = all
rights reserved

IPR Pop Quiz

Q: what can you legally do with
copyrighted content?
A: whatever you have permission to
do

An Obstacle

Open Bible Stories

30 stories of the Bible, in every language, in text, audio & mobile video

door43.org/stories

The future of the global church is

Open!

 2011 Distant Shores Media

www.distantshoresmedia.org

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Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

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