WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.400 all right hey jeff uh with church digital episode 342 as i was sitting here listening to the uh the 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:15.860 music uh i realized episode 350 is a couple months away actually i think it's right around 00:00:15.860 --> 00:00:23.780 my birthday august 18th gonna have to have some fun uh with uh the 350th stream coming up we gotta 00:00:23.780 --> 00:00:28.480 do a town hall somewhere around there i wonder i wonder if that lines up we'll have to we'll have 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:33.600 to figure that out for another day not not for now i got enough going on my life uh but hey i am 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:41.260 excited about this this conversation uh coming up uh we've got marilyn adamson uh from every student 00:00:41.260 --> 00:00:48.280 coming on to share there's some phenomenal stories some phenomenal resources uh that are right around 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:53.440 the corner that are available for you and some of the stories that i've been hearing are are ridiculous 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:58.280 and so i cannot wait to uh to get in to to share some of these resources with you 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:04.680 we are digging into a season here with the church digital uh equipping partners and empowering tools 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:12.220 and what we're seeing from from marilyn and every student is um well it's it's it's exciting 00:01:12.220 --> 00:01:18.280 you know and i don't want to call out my friend ian kirk who uh who's chiming in in in the chatter 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:22.980 you're excited just about every conversation that's a good thing yeah i do i get excited a lot i'm like 00:01:22.980 --> 00:01:29.220 a woo girl except uh i don't woo and i'm not a girl so you can do with that what you want i'm sure 00:01:29.220 --> 00:01:33.820 somebody in social media will clip that i'm like a woo girl yeah i said it twice you got two different 00:01:33.820 --> 00:01:39.320 takes so you can find a way to make uh that work for you but it's gonna be really good hey i tell you 00:01:39.320 --> 00:01:48.040 what another exciting thing um we have been uh neck deep as an organization working through the fall 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:57.960 digital missionary conferences conferences we are doing four uh half day conferences in uh september 00:01:57.960 --> 00:02:04.600 and october it's conference season in the fall we've announced three of them uh there is uh there's 00:02:04.600 --> 00:02:10.680 actually we've done some title changes we've done a focus change and so you can go to uh you can go to 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:15.400 the website missionary.digital to get more information on three of the conferences that we've announced but 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:20.200 the fourth one well we decided to keep it a secret but we're going to announce it it's gonna be really 00:02:20.200 --> 00:02:30.200 cool next week wednesday uh september 18th we are doing a a live stream uh with alan hirsch uh probably one of 00:02:30.200 --> 00:02:37.560 the the fathers of of modern church planting alan hirsch uh the incarnational guru himself who 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:42.120 happens to be a strong supporter of digital missionaries and digital church planting now 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:48.680 i'm not actually sure how incarnational ministry and digital go together and to be honest that's the 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:54.040 conversation we're going to have with alan hirsch next week as we're trying to figure out what 00:02:54.040 --> 00:03:00.520 incarnational does with digital and how digital can influence incarnational uh our friend on the board 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:07.480 jesse carbo on the tcd board wrote an excellent article that was published uh in missio alliance i 00:03:07.480 --> 00:03:13.400 think a couple weeks ago and uh alan was was quoted in there and just a lot of good conversations with him 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:23.000 around that so hey september 18th jump on this stream uh with us more information uh coming to you via email in tcd 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:28.120 uh whatsapp and discord i for the life of me i can't think of the time right now it's an it's an 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:34.360 afternoon or evening stream because alan is like literally in australia and so it's gonna be thursday 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:42.200 when we talk to him but that's coming up right on the corner and we will announce the four conferences 00:03:42.200 --> 00:03:47.640 that secret fourth conference that we've yet to announce uh we will announce publicly uh on alan hirsch 00:03:47.640 --> 00:03:52.200 it's gonna be worth it it's worth that coming around for it so i you know what i guess that's 00:03:52.200 --> 00:03:56.280 it for my commercial spiel i don't what was that three four minutes i don't i kind of hate doing those 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:01.160 things like you know i'm as excited as i am about people i really am not that good about promoting 00:04:01.160 --> 00:04:05.800 myself and god's actually done a good job promoting tcd along the way and so i'm just 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:11.880 sitting back and smiling uh like i'm sure uh maryland is uh with some of the things she's 00:04:11.880 --> 00:04:16.920 going to share so let's go ahead and bring maryland on for the conversation hey maryland how are you 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:24.200 doing i think it's going okay for you yeah doing well i really appreciate this opportunity 00:04:24.840 --> 00:04:32.680 that to be on i love what you're doing yes now um maryland is she lives in no you're not in orlando 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:37.480 yeah you are in orlando you're with the crew she's she's in orlando she's about four hours away from me 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:44.280 um i'm i'm down in miami and a lot of the the crew team uh is based out of orlando for whatever 00:04:44.280 --> 00:04:50.360 reason one of their headquarters is there but maryland um connected with me starting to talk about 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:57.000 some of the stuff that she's doing and things that are happening over with every student and a lot of 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:04.200 the really exciting resources that are now available uh for people to to really reach jen a and gen z and 00:05:04.200 --> 00:05:09.400 so um maryland maryland's got a presentation that we're going to walk through here in a minute but 00:05:09.400 --> 00:05:13.880 before we even even get to that point maryland you know tell us a little bit about yourself how'd you get 00:05:14.520 --> 00:05:20.280 connected and how are you doing this stuff digitally how what's your story yeah well actually 00:05:20.280 --> 00:05:29.640 my story really does play into my creating every student dot com uh i had been an atheist 00:05:30.760 --> 00:05:38.600 and then i met a christian who really walked with god really trusted god in her life and so i began to 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:46.040 wonder if it was possible that god could exist um i couldn't understand how somebody as smart as her 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:54.200 could believe in god so i was challenging her but i wasn't mean about it we debated for uh i bet a year 00:05:54.200 --> 00:06:03.480 and a half i'd ask her questions almost daily and finally she gave me a book that had um information in 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:10.120 a minute and when i was away from her and this is key you know when we think of being online when i was away 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:16.840 from her all my defenses could come down and i could be honest and that's when god really spoke to me and 00:06:16.840 --> 00:06:25.000 it was i was into philosophy but it was science that spoke to me um the earth's position to the sun and 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:34.600 the properties of water so and then i saw evidence for jesus being god but um bottom line is when i asked 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:41.080 jesus into my life he really changed my life in a dramatic way and i just wanted everybody to know him 00:06:41.960 --> 00:06:53.640 and so after i graduated college i had a degree in journalism and advertising and it turned out i 00:06:54.280 --> 00:07:00.840 became friends with a webmaster who was able to work with me to build the site and this was back in 00:07:01.880 --> 00:07:07.800 it launched in 2000. yeah i don't i don't think they use the word webmaster anymore i don't know 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:12.920 that's the thing they've moved away from that i have been a webmaster in my life and yeah that that's 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:21.320 good that's funny yeah yeah no that's a dated term you're right well cool um so and so you're going 00:07:21.320 --> 00:07:27.880 to talk about every student and and walk through some of that phenomenal uh story with that so marilyn i'll 00:07:27.880 --> 00:07:33.800 go ahead and fire the slide deck if you're ready and uh let me just let me just mention one thing for 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:43.640 your audience uh the purpose of this time is to help you see ways that you can very comfortably and 00:07:43.640 --> 00:07:52.920 very quickly get into conversations about god with people when you're online whether it's live online uh 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:59.720 you know if you're in gaming or in discord or or even if you want to post something in social media but 00:08:00.840 --> 00:08:07.560 any direct messaging any of that there's a quick way that you can begin to have conversations with 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:14.840 people about god in a way that's comfortable for them and i'm going to be showing you a couple websites 00:08:15.640 --> 00:08:23.240 that can really help you in your evangelism and your discipleship so that's what this is about and i i 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:29.000 think it'll be really useful to you awesome and so you know i know we've got some people in chat feel 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:34.680 free to throw questions in their comments we'll we'll put them up and address them uh throughout the 00:08:34.680 --> 00:08:41.000 presentation and if you're watching on demand of course feel free to to put comments uh in chat as well 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:46.760 i i personally interact with all the youtube comments okay i'm like a week or two behind but 00:08:46.760 --> 00:08:52.840 normally i'm really on top of my game it's it's just it's it's been uh it's been a rough week uh 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:58.600 you know steven steve good insight i'm meeting jesus when alone we should probably have a choice 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:05.640 of hand oh you know it's steve slow down slow the roll uh let's let uh let's let marilyn get 00:09:05.640 --> 00:09:11.720 into what she's she's showing so marilyn you ready to get started on this yes thank you awesome here 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:21.880 you go hey the magic button worked good uh this i love this verse it's what has motivated me it's 00:09:21.880 --> 00:09:29.560 in philemon in the rsv it reads and i pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge 00:09:29.560 --> 00:09:36.440 of all the good that is ours in christ and to me that's the definition of evangelism we get to tell 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:39.960 people the good that is found in christ 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:49.640 so this is how the world lives this makes it very easy to help non-believers 00:09:54.680 --> 00:10:02.200 most non-believers i found don't know who god is or what it's like to know god and that's why 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:09.720 i build everystudent.com it's a safe place to explore who god is and what it might be like to 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:18.760 know god everything on the site is about god and everything is worded to non-believers it's for them 00:10:19.640 --> 00:10:28.840 with reasons to begin a relationship with god so john was one of the people uh i visited your site last 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:34.920 year and it has been a life-changing experience i came to know about the love of god and the 00:10:34.920 --> 00:10:41.240 relationship we can have with him i do not have words to explain the joy i'm experiencing today 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:50.600 everystudent.com is in 50 languages now each is its own website 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:58.920 and you can find those by scrolling down the home page of everystudent.com to this word cloud 00:10:58.920 --> 00:11:00.680 it'll show you all the urls 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:11.480 uh just during last year more there were more than 80 million visits to the site so god's really drawing a 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:12.840 a lot of people to the site 00:11:15.800 --> 00:11:24.040 and more remarkable i think 1.5 million people told us that they asked jesus into their life while 00:11:24.040 --> 00:11:32.920 on the site so you had 1.5 million people um i mean that's like two percent of people two percent of 00:11:32.920 --> 00:11:39.960 people that visited your site last year accepted christ and that's like them reporting letting you know that 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:49.160 uh yes we have um we have about 20 percent of the articles actually include the gospel 00:11:49.880 --> 00:11:55.000 and if they do there's a link at the end of these articles and they're long articles 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:03.960 and there's three links at the bottom one says i just asked jesus into my life and that's what we count 00:12:05.160 --> 00:12:10.680 another one says i may want to can you explain this more fully and we take them to another page and then 00:12:11.160 --> 00:12:16.120 there's also a link where they can ask a question and someone will personally reply to them 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:23.960 yeah that's that's a that's a those are strong numbers um i'm curious one more question how how do people find you 00:12:25.640 --> 00:12:33.800 we're doing a lot of google and facebook advertising okay so um seo uh social media 00:12:33.800 --> 00:12:41.320 marketing social uh search engine marketing to to get people there we pretty much gave up on search 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:47.080 engine optimization a lot of time ago yeah just skipped over it wasn't worth the effort 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:52.360 i almost want to have a side conversation on that that's interesting yeah yeah well and it's becoming 00:12:52.360 --> 00:13:01.720 even more so with ai now you know okay so if you do the math on the 1.5 million people that's more 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:07.400 than 4 000 people every day who ask jesus into their lives while on the site that's crazy 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:15.960 it is crazy and and most of them are in closed countries uh this is tough to see but you've heard 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:25.400 of the 1040 window and that's that's a latitude right latitude section of the earth 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:34.360 where you've got a lot of muslim hindu uh we have a lot of people come to the site from vietnam which is 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:43.240 communist communist atheist uh and and this is mostly where we are running ads in google i'm running 00:13:43.880 --> 00:13:53.480 campaigns in 14 languages in google so it's fun to be able to go into countries where it's not easy 00:13:53.480 --> 00:14:01.000 it's not safe for people to talk about jesus and yet they can come and safely explore without them being 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:11.400 at risk and i love that so here's the what we've seen over the years in terms of the number of people 00:14:11.400 --> 00:14:17.720 who are coming to christ i mean it's god's just had his hand on it and i'm i'm just watching it like 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:26.520 anybody else even though okay so you started this thing in 2020 2002 20 years ago and you were like 00:14:26.520 --> 00:14:32.360 double digits 10 15 people two people no people looks like the first year did you have any idea 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:36.760 this would happen like when you first got started what was what was the hope what was the dream what 00:14:36.760 --> 00:14:45.480 was the ridiculous fantastical goal yeah i was in the campus area um of crew in the united states so i 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:53.400 was doing it for university students in english in the us but what happened is as our staff in other 00:14:53.400 --> 00:14:59.320 countries around the world began to know about the site i started being asked to speak at global events 00:14:59.880 --> 00:15:07.800 and then even more staff became aware of the site and all 50 languages came about at the request of 00:15:07.800 --> 00:15:16.120 our staff in various countries and are they are you using ai to translate is it manual like manual be 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:26.280 ridiculous the number of articles no we we've mostly done manual um really yeah yeah i'll send yes we'll 00:15:26.280 --> 00:15:33.800 have staff send in rarely have we hired mostly it's been our staff who have found people to translate and 00:15:34.760 --> 00:15:42.680 it's it's been a lot of work there's that volunteer like act of love to to do the translation well because 00:15:42.680 --> 00:15:49.560 they really wanted the site in their language you want to use it and so um that was that's what i 00:15:49.560 --> 00:15:59.320 asked of them we built it we have um a web designer yeah who has built all the sites i learned that's 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:07.000 funny yeah it's beautiful and you're mostly in closed countries yeah oh did i went the wrong way wrong but my 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:14.360 thought that's okay so i wanted to read this one because this again is typical patrick wrote uh he's 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:19.960 in ireland he said he was doing just enough drugs each morning to get through the day without killing 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:29.000 himself and then he sent a really long email this is an excerpt he said i went to my computer and googled 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:35.640 starting a new life with god and led me to your site what i read made the most perfect sense in a 00:16:35.640 --> 00:16:42.280 life trampled by confusion i found clarity you have offered me a gift which has changed my life i feel 00:16:42.280 --> 00:16:49.240 indebted to you for making the information available in a way a complete novice like me could understand 00:16:49.880 --> 00:16:57.480 and and that's what we hear most is that first of all the site doesn't mention crew doesn't mention 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:07.640 any church or organization it really is all about god and it's worded very uh simply and persuasively 00:17:09.800 --> 00:17:17.000 and so people who know nothing about christianity understand the site and and it helps them 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:29.960 and so yeah this is again from my own background but as you know online is comfortable it feels safe 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:36.520 they're in control no one is challenging them and so their defenses can come down and they can be honest 00:17:37.320 --> 00:17:40.920 it's the perfect environment for god to speak to someone 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:52.200 here's what this person posted on her blog this is for the article is there a god she said the funniest 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:58.040 thing happened when i read the first paragraph of the article i wanted to read the next and when i did 00:17:58.040 --> 00:18:04.840 i wanted to read the next and the next you should all look at this article something made me want to 00:18:04.840 --> 00:18:12.200 believe again i mean believe just reading the intro to the article gave me a newfound respect for 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:19.400 christian thought i'd been looking for a reason not to be disgusted by christians i didn't know 00:18:20.280 --> 00:18:27.080 interesting comment huh i've taken another step closer i read the article and saw god coming to 00:18:27.080 --> 00:18:33.800 me from a place outside myself that is revealing himself to me from the actions of others 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:39.480 the faith i had that he existed was suddenly renewed so good 00:18:42.040 --> 00:18:48.600 and this was i met this guy in jordan he said he went into an internet cafe 00:18:49.560 --> 00:19:00.280 to search for scholarships for his phd and landed on our arabic site every arab student and he said here i was a 00:19:00.280 --> 00:19:09.320 muslim reading article after article and thinking this is true this is true i sent the site to my friends 00:19:09.320 --> 00:19:16.920 praying that god would speak to them and many became believers and and he told me that over two years 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:24.680 he saw four generations of believers where people that had come to christ through his email 00:19:25.800 --> 00:19:34.120 you know they led others who led others who led others wow and i mean it's so cool to see because people 00:19:34.120 --> 00:19:43.640 share what has an impact in their life so even if you talk to just one person online you have no idea 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:48.280 what god will do in that person's life to impact others 00:19:52.760 --> 00:20:01.480 so not all sites do this but on ours each article or video page has its own url so that means you can 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:09.160 copy and paste it into a message or or just use their icons yeah shareability we talk about evergreen and 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:17.800 the shareability of that it's really smart to do the uh unique urls for that um 00:20:18.840 --> 00:20:22.920 everything on the site is worded to people who are yet to know god 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:31.480 its goal is not to inform or educate but to seek to give people persuasive reasons to begin a relationship 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:41.720 with them uh just dig into that 30 seconds yeah well okay a lot of sites um where they give 00:20:43.320 --> 00:20:54.440 they give an accurate presentation of what's true okay um but it's it's like reading an encyclopedia 00:20:55.880 --> 00:21:03.320 it's just information it's nothing that would necessarily move someone to action so i said my 00:21:03.320 --> 00:21:10.360 background was advertising and so everything in the site is written in a persuasive copy format 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:21.720 in writing you've got news reporting you have um novels are written differently education is different 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:30.280 this is persuasive writing and so it means um you start with attention build to interest lead them to a 00:21:30.280 --> 00:21:38.760 decision show them how to take action and everything is designed that way because the goal is to help 00:21:38.760 --> 00:21:47.480 them begin a relationship with god but also give them um reasons to do so and we have a lot of scripture 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:54.360 that's in the articles that's in the articles and in the videos because i want i know the power of god 00:21:54.360 --> 00:22:07.000 to speak for himself so good yeah uh so here's um every student is useful in helping people who are 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:15.560 asking questions like these how do you know god is real if there is a god why is life so hard does god 00:22:15.560 --> 00:22:23.960 really answer prayer if i were to have faith in god what could i expect god to do for me and why should 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:32.040 i believe in jesus i mean we cover many more than that but so on this i just want to give you you can 00:22:32.040 --> 00:22:37.880 look at these yourself i'm not going to read them all but um jeff if you could just show some of the page 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:48.760 some of what we cover yeah 00:22:57.800 --> 00:23:06.520 i wanted to focus on this this is a email series seven parts comes every two days and it's written 00:23:06.520 --> 00:23:17.080 for skeptics agnostics people that aren't sure that god exists and when they fill out the form the the 00:23:17.080 --> 00:23:24.360 only thing they have to fill out is their email address and and this is key in that we don't ever 00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:37.160 we don't do things on the site for our benefit um so i'm not trying to assemble an email list of people 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:46.840 or get names or cities or any of that this is for them so even after somebody has completed a series 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:55.800 i go through we use aweber as our sending company and after people have gone through email series i 00:23:55.800 --> 00:24:03.240 will delete their email address because i really care about their privacy and we tell them if you 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:09.160 sign up for this this is the only thing you'll receive and you won't be put on a list or anything so 00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:17.320 privacy has always been important to me this is not a new thing we've always done it this way way before gdpr 00:24:17.320 --> 00:24:18.360 came in you know 00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:29.000 uganda this person said i never thought i would understand about god and faith like you have made 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:34.600 me i now have a reason to live today and this is the kind of thing you can help people with 00:24:35.320 --> 00:24:38.920 right give them reason to live by knowing god 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:49.080 this person from nigeria i was in i was a good performer but deep down i was breaking into pieces 00:24:49.080 --> 00:24:56.600 life was becoming harder and harder countless sexual partners bad company lots and lots of lies 00:24:57.320 --> 00:25:04.680 sometimes i would just sit to sit down alone and cry my life was a mess you introduced god to me in a 00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:12.760 magnificent way it has transformed my life i breathed a fresh air a breath of liberation and freedom i was 00:25:12.760 --> 00:25:22.600 finally born again that's kind of thing you might hear from people you know um so here is how every 00:25:22.600 --> 00:25:30.360 student can help you in your conversations with people who are yet to know god how we talk to people 00:25:30.360 --> 00:25:38.280 through text message it's really no different than how we talk to them in person so this carries over 00:25:38.280 --> 00:25:44.840 i'm going to give you some examples of me talking to somebody face to face but i've also had the same 00:25:44.840 --> 00:25:51.000 kinds of conversations online okay oh sorry my fault there you go 00:25:53.560 --> 00:26:02.280 okay here is your full training it's in one uh slide here as you chat with people online you can 00:26:02.280 --> 00:26:10.680 simply say i'm connected to a site that takes on the hard questions about life and god like how do you know 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:18.760 god exists and why is life so hard here let me give you a link to it okay it's that simple 00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:27.960 all right so i'm going to give you examples of how this works first of all when you do that when 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:35.000 you resource somebody people appreciate that you're just resourcing them with something that can answer 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:42.520 their questions they sense that you care about them you're not trying to control them you respect their 00:26:42.520 --> 00:26:46.760 ability to decide for themselves and they're very grateful 00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:51.320 so here's an example of the conversation 00:26:53.000 --> 00:27:02.360 i was in a fast food line at a on the university campus and it was a long line and a student next 00:27:02.360 --> 00:27:08.120 to me started chatting with me we both happened to look up from our phones at the same time and so 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:17.720 you know so then we started talking because it was too awkward not to um so i asked him about his 00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:26.120 major and it was computer engineering uh you know so we talked about security and web browsers and all 00:27:26.120 --> 00:27:33.560 sorts of stuff and then i told him a little bit about everystudent.com he said i'm agnostic but my 00:27:33.560 --> 00:27:42.200 fiance is a christian i asked him if you saw sufficient evidence for god's existence would you want to know god 00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:51.080 he said yes so i pulled out my phone and i had him sign up for the spiritual adventure pack which is 00:27:51.080 --> 00:27:58.760 that seven-part email series and you find it um just look for the little hiker icon and you'll be able to find it 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:08.520 so this is what struck me the most about our conversation it was only 10 minutes long maybe 00:28:09.080 --> 00:28:16.920 but three different times during our conversation daniel grabbed my hand to shake it and told me how 00:28:16.920 --> 00:28:25.720 grateful he was that i would talk to him wow um and part of that is because he's got a fiancee who's 00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:29.960 a christian this could make his life a whole lot easier if he became a christian you know 00:28:31.880 --> 00:28:37.880 um okay another example of a real conversation that just as easily could have been online 00:28:40.360 --> 00:28:48.440 um and let me just say when you're equipped with this site god's going to bring people your way 00:28:49.560 --> 00:28:56.360 and here's an example i was in a hotel lobby standing next to me was this woman and she asked are you 00:28:56.360 --> 00:29:03.560 with our convention i said no i'm with a site that takes on the hard questions about life and god like 00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:11.080 how do you know god exists and why is life so hard she said i'm an atheist but i'm searching 00:29:12.520 --> 00:29:18.280 i said you will love this website because it will give you reasons to begin a relationship with god 00:29:18.280 --> 00:29:25.880 and show you how you can start that relationship with him today and she had tears in her eyes when 00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:35.080 i handed her the card and she thanked me for it um so caroline's another one who signed up for this 00:29:35.080 --> 00:29:43.800 series for atheists the site does more than just speak to atheists but it's useful that way she said 00:29:43.800 --> 00:29:49.400 although you don't know me i feel like you've taken my hand and led me on a very special journey these 00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:56.840 last few weeks the information you provided answers many of my questions you have led me from complete 00:29:56.840 --> 00:30:05.480 denial of god's existence to not just believing in him but knowing that he is there the evidence you give 00:30:05.480 --> 00:30:12.040 was sufficient to convince this 33 year old lifelong atheist and not an easy challenge wow 00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:20.360 and dominie who's another thank you so much for your website it's been so nice how much sense it 00:30:20.360 --> 00:30:28.440 makes it helped me find jesus god our lord i love that because she's so new she's not quite sure how to 00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:35.000 address how to say yeah i'm just trying to figure out words yeah she said of course as i am new to it i 00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:41.800 used to be agnostic i still have little doubt but that doubt is fading away quickly your website 00:30:41.800 --> 00:30:45.560 has provided believable proof and such eye-opening material 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:58.760 um so let's say you're talking to somebody online and you say something about what you personally know 00:30:58.760 --> 00:31:07.720 to be true about god after that like you might say you know i'm sorry you're struggling with whatever 00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:15.240 they shared with you and you could say you know i've been in tough times before and i i found that god 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:24.680 gives me a peace that's beyond what the circumstances would call for then after you say something about 00:31:24.680 --> 00:31:31.960 god you can say i'm wondering if anyone has ever shared with you how you could know god like that 00:31:32.840 --> 00:31:39.480 okay so the key point of this you're not blaming them for being ignorant you're kind of blaming somebody 00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:47.320 else that maybe they never shared with him how he could know god like this okay so it's very it's a 00:31:47.320 --> 00:31:54.600 disarming kind of way to say it um that makes them comfortable so i'm wondering if anyone has ever 00:31:54.600 --> 00:32:00.600 shared with you how you could know god like that let me give you a link that explains how you can start 00:32:00.600 --> 00:32:07.880 a personal relationship with god all right and the the two i list here one is an article that goes through 00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:18.760 the gospel and the other one's a video that goes through the gospel sure um so to help you know i've 00:32:18.760 --> 00:32:25.240 given you a couple examples of when i've been in conversations with people but if you if you're 00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:31.240 willing to go through this is free free email series and as you know by now this is all you'll receive 00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:38.040 you won't get anything else if you sign up for it um but you this is a site that i'm going to tell you 00:32:38.040 --> 00:32:45.640 about in a minute it's a site for new believers or struggling believers it's called startingwithgod.com 00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:55.800 so if you go to startingwithgod.com slash conversations um there's a series you can sign up for that will give you 00:32:55.800 --> 00:33:04.680 further motivation and coaching and how to interact with non-believers when you're online that's beautiful 00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:12.680 let me i want to i want to pause here for for a second i i love i love your the stories you just 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:18.680 rolled through now all of them were were physical interactions and and you're working primarily with 00:33:18.680 --> 00:33:26.360 digital here early as we are working with digital what i love about what you're doing is even when 00:33:26.360 --> 00:33:33.480 you're standing next to the college student in line to get whatever um you are personally interacting 00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:41.160 with that person um like this is not a you know if i'm going to parallel it in the college university 00:33:41.160 --> 00:33:47.960 physical realm you didn't print a thousand flyers and wallpaper every light post on campus you're 00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:54.520 having a personal interaction with someone you know so often in digital we think about like if i'm 00:33:54.520 --> 00:34:00.920 paralleling that to digital oh my gosh let me just create a social media graphic and i'll post it on my 00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:07.320 feed and that'll get hundreds of people to to click over to whatever the url is i'm trying to drive them to 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:17.480 and and some people will go but that's a a shallower response and it doesn't convert so to speak marketing 00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:25.080 term as much as it is a personal interaction sharing that dm starting that conversation with someone 00:34:25.080 --> 00:34:31.000 digitally going a little further in building that that relationship you know we talk about bless 00:34:31.640 --> 00:34:38.840 in in in using this in your sharing your jesus story segment of of bless as as a way to start a 00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:45.560 conversation with someone even shared experiences watch this video and let's talk about it in um you know 00:34:45.560 --> 00:34:52.200 remotely async or let's jump on a a discord call or a google meet or zoom or whatever to interact 00:34:52.200 --> 00:35:02.200 like there's ways to not just give this resource and then it's gone like in your situation uh you know 00:35:02.200 --> 00:35:06.280 you're telling stories people you meet and then they're they're they're gone yeah i won't see them 00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:13.480 again right in in our in a lot of our situations that may be true but there's also an opportunity to 00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:20.840 relationally use this as a stepping stone to further the conversation along and i think that's where i look at 00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:27.880 like some of this conversations starters and conversations god starts where you you're still 00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:36.920 part of the play even after you you release them to the to the website that's right and um as 00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:45.000 conversations happen there's lots of um pages that you could share a link and say take a look at this 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:52.680 and then let's talk yeah you know i love that all right let's keep going so this is where you would 00:35:52.680 --> 00:36:01.000 find it that there's icons on starting with god.com and it's it's this one's called conversations god 00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:09.080 starts and and this series is because i really believe when you're equipped god will bring people your way 00:36:14.600 --> 00:36:22.520 one second there you go yep um both everystudent.com and starting with god have got great search boxes 00:36:23.080 --> 00:36:27.480 way better than google's they're really good and you can easily find anything you need 00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:34.200 so the search this is where they're located whether you're on a laptop or mobile 00:36:37.240 --> 00:36:46.280 um so you're also going to find believers when you're interacting online and you can help them also 00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:57.320 startingwithgod.com is the site we built for new believers or or struggling believers either one 00:37:00.200 --> 00:37:08.360 uh there's a free email series for new believers you know and there's a whole bunch of series and they go 00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:14.920 in a particular order but i thought the best way to share with you what they are was through a story 00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:18.040 that i'll share a little bit later 00:37:22.600 --> 00:37:29.320 morgan said and many of you might relate to this she said as a teenager i feel like there's all this 00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:35.000 focus on getting saved and following the thousands of rules but i was never given any guidance after 00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:42.600 accepting christ for months i just went through the motions one night after once again hopelessly trying 00:37:42.600 --> 00:37:49.400 to understand i came across this thank you i would never be where i am in my relationship today if god 00:37:49.400 --> 00:38:00.280 hadn't led me to this wow um i'm good i'm wondering for time if i had to skip a couple of these sure go ahead 00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:07.080 let me skip a couple of these but they're people just saying how the impact this site has had 00:38:07.640 --> 00:38:16.360 on their lives as new believers okay so let me tell you this story in closing now this guy his name's 00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:24.680 yard not really but his name is yard i wanted to protect him he's grew up muslim in northern ethiopia 00:38:29.640 --> 00:38:33.560 and he received christ on everystudent.com 00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:41.960 and then he went to start with god.com and signed up for the first follow-up series called the spiritual 00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:51.720 starter kit um and in this series it showed him how he could be sure jesus is in his life that god drew him 00:38:52.600 --> 00:39:01.080 um what god's unconditional love is so different from conditional love why god won't leave you what if 00:39:01.080 --> 00:39:08.040 you sin does god forgive you still how to find a church and christians okay so that's what's in that first 00:39:08.040 --> 00:39:15.800 series and then at the end of it there is an invitation to sign up for another series but a 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:23.640 person has to sign up again um and this series is called skip the stress and it's all about 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:31.320 living under god's grace not feeling like you have to perform for god or be the perfect christian 00:39:32.040 --> 00:39:37.800 um so he signed up for it and then he said thank you very much god bless you forever 00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:42.520 please do not stop teaching me i now understand the concept of faith 00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:50.680 so then at the end of that series there's one that takes someone through the gospel of john so they 00:39:50.680 --> 00:39:58.760 can actually know more about jesus and learn how to notice what scripture's saying he signed up for it 00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:05.800 and then he wrote me god bless you i am very happy thanks to god for being with you on this very amazing 00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:15.560 great study i got a compass to see jesus in the bible and wisdom for my journey each part is removing blindness 00:40:15.560 --> 00:40:16.440 from my life thank you 00:40:19.560 --> 00:40:27.960 so then there's one more series um on how to talk about god with other people and he signed up for it 00:40:29.640 --> 00:40:36.840 and then he wrote me this my eyes are opened now through your lessons i started to teach your lesson 00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:46.600 on whatsapp to all new believers wow and i thought what new believers he said all glory belongs to god 00:40:46.600 --> 00:40:54.200 thank you go extra with jesus yaron so i asked him about these new believers and he said 00:40:56.200 --> 00:41:02.760 this website everystudent.com is my journey it is satisfying their questions and doubts 00:41:03.320 --> 00:41:08.280 it is strength for the believers faith and a way for non-believers to come to jesus 00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:15.960 okay so i asked him more and he said this study and websites and he's referring to both 00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:24.040 studywithgod.com and everystudent.com these websites continue to bless many lives through me 00:41:24.040 --> 00:41:30.840 i am reaching muslims on whatsapp i tell you the truth more than 700 people have been blessed through 00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:37.560 this and now new believers around 33 and their numbers are increasing daily wow 00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:46.120 so i didn't know a lot about it about whatsapp at the time so i asked if he would invite me into the 00:41:46.120 --> 00:41:53.240 group and i took this screenshot and then white it out parts and what he was doing was sharing 00:41:54.040 --> 00:42:02.680 what he was learning on everystudent.com and on studywithgod.com and i started looking at the area codes 00:42:03.560 --> 00:42:12.680 you know there was 966 and 968 and stuff and realized he was reaching people all across the middle east 00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:22.680 saudi arabia yemen sudan egypt uae libya and i asked him where did you get the idea to do this 00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:29.160 and he said you told me to and how to talk about god you said share this in your social media so that's 00:42:29.160 --> 00:42:37.800 what i'm doing that's what he's doing i love that so you know this is you don't you don't even have to 00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:46.040 train people once they see what the two sites are offering they know how to share it with somebody else 00:42:47.960 --> 00:42:57.000 so that's the story of yard so i'm on the next slide i'm giving you uh here the two sites and then 00:42:57.880 --> 00:43:04.760 i'm giving you my email address on the next slide if you have any questions please feel free to email me 00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:10.520 marilyn that was so cool i'll leave i'll leave that slide up for a second um actually i'll come back 00:43:10.520 --> 00:43:15.240 to it i do have one question so here i've got more than one question but here are the four 00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:26.040 things that were on um started start starting conversations um how long are these four so um 00:43:26.680 --> 00:43:33.480 he went through all four of these email series like the entire gospel of john he learned salvation 00:43:33.480 --> 00:43:40.680 spiritual starter kit like what was the process how many months how many years of learning are we talking 00:43:40.680 --> 00:43:47.880 about here what does this actually look like you mean to write these and no for him to read them oh okay 00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:57.320 yeah well um gospel john was 36 emails long okay and they come every three or four days so 00:43:58.520 --> 00:44:08.520 you know yeah these are easily over six months and then to be honest i started another ongoing series 00:44:09.240 --> 00:44:16.840 called call you'll find it on starting with god.com called the findables yeah and you're welcome to join 00:44:16.840 --> 00:44:26.840 that group also there's 6 000 findables around the world that i write to every 10 days and to be a 00:44:26.840 --> 00:44:37.400 findable i ask uh i i tell people i'm going to ask you to take faith steps and try some things you're not 00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:46.440 obligated you know but i just want the freedom to ask them to try things and so the findables are people 00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:56.920 who want to help make jesus findable to millions of other people and uh you're welcome to sign up for any 00:44:56.920 --> 00:45:04.840 of the series i i love that we'll we'll put the links in in the in the uh the youtube descriptions and 00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:11.800 and and and we'll we'll put this out there but i i love the idea uh that uh you said yared uh here 00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:21.080 has uh you basically six months of training and is um is owning what he's learning and is then 00:45:21.080 --> 00:45:28.680 distributing it out you know you were referencing generations earlier he's he's naturally moving to 00:45:28.680 --> 00:45:37.080 whatsapp uh and and getting connected with people across in his context the middle east uh in his in 00:45:37.080 --> 00:45:45.320 his relationally engaging these people like this is that this is an incredible story of um 00:45:47.080 --> 00:45:51.400 sorry planning center just called me i have no idea what planning center is calling me 00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:59.800 anyway um i don't even use planning center but i just i love this story of of of how somebody is is 00:45:59.800 --> 00:46:06.840 owning the the the teaching and and moving forward what all right so one other question because also 00:46:07.560 --> 00:46:15.560 this is one of the best examples of evergreen content i've seen yes where you're you're creating stuff 00:46:16.680 --> 00:46:27.240 once it goes on a server you create a mail list it goes into a platform and over years it it is it 00:46:27.240 --> 00:46:34.280 multiplies up and to the right uh in in its impact like someone some of the stats and stories on this 00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:45.000 are incredible the sites that are in other languages so starting with god is in 30 languages and um 00:46:45.720 --> 00:46:52.280 in arabic spanish portuguese a whole bunch french a whole bunch of languages they've taken 00:46:53.240 --> 00:47:03.480 at least two or three of the email series and they've created it they translated it they changed 00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:10.840 anything that i shared that was personal about me they made it true about them for the leader of that language site 00:47:11.480 --> 00:47:19.160 and and so you can you can have an impact in all sorts of people's lives who don't even speak english 00:47:19.720 --> 00:47:27.880 yeah i the the scalability of what you're doing is incredible the the content now you said you didn't 00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:34.600 pay for a translation volunteer acts of love love that actual writing the content have you 00:47:35.560 --> 00:47:46.120 paid for any of like the author's writing no um and so you're i mean you're you're hosting um html files 00:47:46.120 --> 00:47:53.720 on a server and your uh your youtube is is your video source i would assume uh that's youtube's where 00:47:53.720 --> 00:48:02.200 you put all your videos yes and and the two um videos that go through the whole gospel one is about 00:48:02.200 --> 00:48:09.320 is strictly about how to know god personally the other one is um what god offers you in difficult 00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:19.160 situations and uh both of those videos were created by a findable who did them for free wow so you you you 00:48:19.160 --> 00:48:25.560 you connected with people they shared ideas and you experimented with it you tried it you learned from 00:48:25.560 --> 00:48:31.960 them and then they as an act of service as an act of love they're they own the vision of it they're 00:48:31.960 --> 00:48:38.440 they're replicating it out like this is this is beautiful and uh i don't mean to be rude but this is very 00:48:38.440 --> 00:48:46.840 cheap like there's not a lot of money in in in in your in your model here yet we're seeing 1.4 million 00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:56.040 people globally uh through 50 languages accepting jesus in 2024 like this is uh when when you told me 00:48:56.040 --> 00:49:01.400 this i was like this is unbelievable and when i'm hearing a second time i'm like my gosh it the the model 00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:10.360 worked well let me add since you're talking numbers and cost uh we're seeing people come to the site 00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:18.520 for less than three cents a person uh and we're seeing people indicate that they've received christ 00:49:18.520 --> 00:49:27.240 for under two dollars a person okay so cost per click is is three cents less than three and in the actual 00:49:27.240 --> 00:49:33.080 the the conversion to get to is the conversion accepting jesus like filling out that form yeah 00:49:33.080 --> 00:49:40.280 so to get to to that point is less than two dollars wow that's that's unbelievable um 00:49:41.480 --> 00:49:46.120 and it's and it's mostly you said in the 10 40 window kind of in that middle east uh in in the 00:49:46.120 --> 00:49:53.080 hot zone area where it's so much of this is needed this is this is beautiful so i i can tell you i'm 00:49:53.080 --> 00:50:00.200 i'm looking at chat and steve reed uh is is blowing up right now because he has been trying to figure out 00:50:00.200 --> 00:50:06.840 what to do and i know he was inspired by some of what you've said today i'm just curious like 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:13.080 somebody that's starting out is wanting to do something like this what what advice what counsel 00:50:13.080 --> 00:50:18.840 what would you what would you give them as as a as an idea directive or what's a lesson that you learned 00:50:19.560 --> 00:50:22.840 that oh my gosh it was so hard and you want to save somebody from that 00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:33.480 wow that's a big question um first of all you know i've worked on this for a long time and so 00:50:33.480 --> 00:50:43.880 it takes it takes a lot of years to produce something like this um i think to be really honest god has 00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:53.960 simply brought people my way at the right time uh he's brought the opportunities i mean god really has 00:50:53.960 --> 00:51:01.320 built this and had his hand on it but i will say there's a lot of things about google that i have 00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:09.720 learned in google advertising and one is do not let google choose websites where you show your ads 00:51:09.720 --> 00:51:19.400 because it's wasted money there's too many fraudulent sites out there search has also declined as you know 00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:30.520 with ai and so the most successful thing i've done the last half a year is building new google ad campaigns 00:51:30.520 --> 00:51:39.800 where i choose the sites and i use chat gpt to help me find reputable sites of news and sports and lifestyle 00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:47.240 kinds of sites in other languages and then i've personally gone in and looked at every one of the 00:51:47.240 --> 00:51:55.880 sites to determine if i mean as a double check plus we have a click fraud company we hire just to be 00:51:56.440 --> 00:52:05.720 because i don't i don't want i have to know these are all real if i'm gonna spend my time on it or ask 00:52:05.720 --> 00:52:15.960 anybody to give financially to it i need to know they're all real yeah so facebook has been useful also 00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:24.840 yeah you know steve uh steve let me let me reshape what you heard uh google ads are not bad um google 00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:33.080 ads is is a tool uh but you have to direct it well exactly and you you tell google what you want as 00:52:33.080 --> 00:52:39.400 opposed to google using the algorithm uh to tell you what it thinks you wants that's that would be 00:52:40.040 --> 00:52:45.960 uh the lesson and the takeaway uh on this google's been great for us i mean i've loved being able to 00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:53.160 reach people around the world so yeah i'm not but it was funny in this call in this literally while i 00:52:53.160 --> 00:52:59.160 was on this this stream with you uh jesse who's doing my uh some of the google work for the church 00:52:59.160 --> 00:53:04.200 digital it's like hey i want you to look at these campaigns before we roll it out so i mean we we we use 00:53:04.200 --> 00:53:16.120 it as well in in some context oh beautiful we'd love that um let me ask um how do you this the biggest 00:53:16.120 --> 00:53:22.120 problem we have is fundraising uh as as a general role not just the church digital but digital missionaries 00:53:22.120 --> 00:53:28.200 a lot of bivocational um and and you have a relationship with crew and so i know fundraising 00:53:28.200 --> 00:53:34.280 is is a big part of what you guys do anyway as missionaries through crew but how do you like how 00:53:34.280 --> 00:53:40.200 do you fundraise is there is there a secret or a tip maybe you could share on on what that looks like 00:53:40.200 --> 00:53:46.120 for for you personally or you organizationally uh 00:53:49.400 --> 00:53:57.160 the results that we're seeing are are pretty uh speak for themselves yeah yeah yeah i mean that's 00:53:57.160 --> 00:54:04.680 that's significant 1.5 1.4 whatever it was million and 24 is is significant and so that does deem man 00:54:04.680 --> 00:54:10.920 there's a lot of opportunity to invest in that and all those clicks you know it's just just to be honest 00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:18.360 it's just going to keep going up and to the right like you we talk about the flywheel and you were patient 00:54:18.360 --> 00:54:26.600 enough in the early years to stick to the guns to allow the flywheel to to multiply and now 00:54:27.080 --> 00:54:31.000 you're in the next couple years you're you're just going to be living on that flywheel 00:54:31.720 --> 00:54:36.200 especially if your ads kick in and gasoline on the flame and i believe you're going to see some 00:54:36.200 --> 00:54:44.760 explosion on that after somebody accepts accepts christ what do you do is there is there a follow-up 00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:52.840 is there an email is there a community yeah well when somebody clicks on that link on everystudent.com 00:54:52.840 --> 00:55:02.600 it says i just asked jesus into my life they land on a hidden page that invites them to go to starting 00:55:02.600 --> 00:55:09.400 with god.com so they have to they have to go there they have to actually go to the effort 00:55:10.280 --> 00:55:17.800 we don't automatically send them there and that's another way for me to see if these are real so what 00:55:17.800 --> 00:55:25.400 i have seen is there's a there's an absolute parallel between people that receive christ and people that 00:55:25.400 --> 00:55:33.560 go to starting with god when that goes up i mean it's just uh it's a confirmation to me uh a little bit 00:55:33.560 --> 00:55:41.320 but yes they we have an email page and someone personally replies to them 00:55:42.200 --> 00:55:48.920 in any of our language sites we don't use bots and as long as i'm directing it we will never use bots 00:55:48.920 --> 00:55:56.360 it will be it will be an individual who prays about how to answer the person and care about the person 00:55:56.360 --> 00:56:02.680 and give them a good answer yeah it was funny we discord the other day we had uh we do we do use bots 00:56:02.680 --> 00:56:08.840 we use people too but we use bots and people simultaneously and uh we had we had a we had a non-friendly 00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:15.560 bot person join discord and he was he was kind of upset at the bot so i i i totally get that yeah i 00:56:15.560 --> 00:56:23.640 will throw rocks at it it's just a personal it's not like it cares it doesn't know but there's it's fun 00:56:23.640 --> 00:56:32.520 um oh my gosh so good i i would love uh to have more conversations with you i'm intrigued about what 00:56:32.520 --> 00:56:39.320 happens afterwards uh like there's a there's a really strong opportunity maybe to introduce some 00:56:39.320 --> 00:56:45.800 digital churches uh in the space people that aren't in a position because of persecution or whatever to 00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:51.720 to get connected into a digital environment or you know create a whatsapp community similar to what 00:56:52.840 --> 00:57:01.640 uh the individual was that people could join yard uh yeah yard uh could join in uh and um in dialogue 00:57:01.640 --> 00:57:08.920 with like i just i'm i'm um i'm intrigued because you've really got that you know we talk about connect 00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:16.200 community equip mobilize you've really got that connection well and and my my gut is if there was a 00:57:16.200 --> 00:57:23.960 community uh peer community where people could bake on it together and um in dialogue you know i bet you 00:57:23.960 --> 00:57:30.120 would see you know even more conversions at the community level through that and so you know you 00:57:30.120 --> 00:57:34.760 may after i think after this week you may get an email right now it's all about my daughter's dance 00:57:34.760 --> 00:57:39.800 recital like i'm not gonna kid that it's that's tonight and so that's like number one priority in my life 00:57:39.800 --> 00:57:46.360 right now is i got to be sitting at a high school auditorium in in about two hours three hours but 00:57:46.360 --> 00:57:53.480 after that i do have a conversation with you about this so check for an email on that uh but hey this 00:57:53.480 --> 00:57:57.400 has been beautiful as as we're wrapping up here um in any closing thoughts 00:58:00.040 --> 00:58:07.640 no i'm happy to answer any email that someone sends me if there's uh questions you have or other ways i 00:58:07.640 --> 00:58:13.400 could help i mean i i can't really review everybody's google ad campaign that was only to do that 00:58:15.080 --> 00:58:23.800 that's awesome i get to do a couple my my uh my friend jesse's got a guy that that i pay to do this 00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:31.400 and so uh you know uh i i don't think she can handle doing all that for free but um it has been an 00:58:31.400 --> 00:58:37.320 absolute pleasure maryland thank you for jumping on the stream uh for if any questions on maryland 00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:46.760 uh it's on the screen maryland adamson at every student dot com is her information there and uh 00:58:46.760 --> 00:58:52.200 for that we're gonna we're gonna land a plane uh hope you enjoyed the stream uh as we're digging 00:58:52.200 --> 00:58:59.560 into uh equipping partners and empowering tools maryland thank you uh for today uh next week i have 00:58:59.560 --> 00:59:07.000 no idea what's coming up and then we've got the um uh the stream wednesday with uh alan hirsch i you 00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:12.360 know i'm normally an organized person and i'm not gonna lie the past two to three weeks have been 00:59:12.360 --> 00:59:19.400 pandemonium like i have no idea what was going on and uh i just i want to thank maryland uh she sent 00:59:19.400 --> 00:59:24.920 me all like all of her notes and stuff friday and i didn't actually reply until like 30 minutes before 00:59:24.920 --> 00:59:30.520 the stream started and she's like are we doing this today it's just it's it's been a it's been a mess in 00:59:30.520 --> 00:59:37.240 the head lately but maryland thank you for the time i appreciate it check out every student uh there and 00:59:37.240 --> 00:59:42.520 we'll have all the links in the in the show notes but for maryland this is jeff with the church digital 00:59:42.520 --> 00:59:48.520 thanks for hanging out today and we'll see you next time on the show you have a good one 00:59:48.520 --> 00:59:48.520 you