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EP360: Final Preview - Jeff Talks Digital Neighborhoods
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All right. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Church Digital Podcast. It's funny, the music
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faded out in my ears right in time, and I wanted to make sure I didn't mess anything
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up. But hey, Jeff here, founder of the Church Digital, excited about the conferences we've
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got coming up right around the corner. We, the Church Digital, we're a digital missionary
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sending agency. We want to equip and mobilize people to be missionaries in digital space
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around the world and through our equipping courses and communities and resources that
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we're sharing and even mobilizing people in the outposts for relational accountability
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and coaching. Man, it's so much fun. I love my job. I love getting to do what I do on a regular
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basis, and it is so much fun. I was having a conversation. I was working today.
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At a physical church, I'm doing some coaching right now with a physical church that is transitioning.
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It's on the older side of the equation. They're getting ready to like, you know, they're moving
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towards more of a generational thing. And, you know, I was telling them a little bit. It's
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funny. I mentioned World of Warcraft. I mentioned World of Warcraft. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You know, let's talk about churches and video games. And one of the ladies here, oh, you're
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not in World of Warcraft, are you? And I smiled because it's like, yeah, I know some guys that
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are in World of Warcraft. Actually, yes. Yeah. XP Church is all about. Wow. And she, it was
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like it was a triggering mechanism because her husband evidently in college played a lot of
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World of Warcraft. Well, a lot of us played World of Warcraft a lot, you know, back in the
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day. And so it was fun. It was like, I had to like coach her through. But oh my gosh, so
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excited about the Digital Missionary Conference this next season kicking off tomorrow. Literally
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like right around the corner tomorrow here with the Digital Neighborhoods Conference. You
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know what? I heard an interesting tidbit that I haven't even validated. One of my team, Andy,
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we were just previous to this call. I came on this call late. I apologize. But came on the
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call here late today because we were doing a tech check with a lot of the sponsors, breakout
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leaders and the people in play. And so just wanted to, oh, cool. Yeah. So we are about right
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now, the Digital Missionary Conference, we're right at about 600 people. 600 people right
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now are walking into, are signed up for the Digital Neighborhoods Conference that's happening
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tomorrow. Excited about these people, the global reach that's involved. Here, the heart of the
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here, the heart of this conference, like I'm going to give you some inside scoop right here.
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The heart of tomorrow's conference is centered around recognizing that these platforms, they
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have a unique culture unto themselves. And if they have a unique culture, well, then why are
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we not treating them like neighborhoods? Why are we not recognizing the personalities and
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the cultures that exist in those spaces? And if we're talking about different cultures, by
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the way, what does the gospel look like in those spaces? How can we be reaching into those
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cultures, into those unique people groups to better represent the gospel digitally or even
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virtually or even in games like World of Warcraft? Listen, hey, the guy's talking crazy. Well,
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listen, if you've met me, all I do is talk crazy. But we're excited. See, I scratch my head
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when I'm talking crazy. But we're excited about the Digital Neighborhoods Conference coming up.
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So let me tease a little bit. I'm going to show you the venue. We're going to bring you in. We're going
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to show you what the Hublot experience looks like as well. We're going to talk about some other
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things. But let's kick this off first. And let's talk about what this what this experience is going
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to look. Laura, who who's going to be at the experience of what did the schedule is? Let me push this
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button. Oh, look, everything works so so magically. It's like I rehearsed it, which I did not. You would
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think I would have done a check check in advance. But no, sorry. I've kind of been running all day
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today. But we're excited about this. And so for more information on our Digital Neighborhoods
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Conference tomorrow, or what's happening digital Christ Center Recovery next week, or our European
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conference in two weeks or in the gaming conference in three weeks for conferences across four weeks,
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go to www.missionary.digital. That's www.missionary.digital. Here you go. Digital
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Neighborhoods, Control Out Recover, which is Christ Center Recovery, Addiction Recovery, European Digital
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Missionary Summit on October 1st and October 8th gaming. Registration is available for all of these
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by simply clicking on Save Your Spot right here. Get you registered for it and to sign up if you've
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registered in the past. By the way, it's good to see Bible with the Battles. DeMarcus is excited about
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the conferences coming up. Yay, DeMarcus. Thanks for jumping on my friend and sharing that. But we
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are excited about the experiences that we've got coming up across all of the conferences. We're going to be
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talking, I've been talking a lot about Digital Neighborhoods. You're going to hear me Friday, Thursday. We're going
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to talk a little bit about neighborhoods, but we're going to pivot because we got to, we're going to
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celebrate. We're going to start to tease what's coming up with the Control Out Recover Conference,
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etc. down the road. Oh my gosh, European. It's going to be crazy. Gaming. I'm not sure how gaming is going to
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work. Like that one, that conference is going to be 100% in Discord. And I don't know that I've ever
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seen a conference executed 100% in gaming. And FlatCap, you know, FlatCap's jumping on here. DMCons,
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the gaming conference, that's FlatCap's baby. And that's Andy's baby. So I'm excited about it. But
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even when they're talking about this, I'm like, I got faith in you guys because I ain't a Discord user
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like you guys are. Dems power users. I'm really more of just a pretty face in that. But we're going
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to move on. Hey, look, I just, I just, I constantly, I just want to bring more and more
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attention. This list keeps getting bigger and bigger. Would you just take a look at all the
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sponsors that we got on this thing? Like, you know, yay sponsors. But these are people. These
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are organizations. I feel like I just need to constantly keep pushing this. We got, you got
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Yatope chiming in from literally another continent, 24 hours to go, much less for you. My pro actually
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doesn't matter. It's still the same distance regardless. That was bad on my part. But look
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at all the people, look at all the organizations that are excited, that are backing, that want
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to connect and resource digital missionaries like you. It was, was funny, even at this, this
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older legacy church that I'm helping work through. The, the, the pastor looks at me and he's
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like, Jeff, you're the future. The stuff that we're working on right now, you know, I'm saying,
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Hey, it's not today, it's tomorrow. But for a guy that's at a legacy church, he's saying,
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Hey, like he's even recognizing the stuff that we're talking about here. This is where we're
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going. This is where things are, are pivoting more and more that way. So be encouraged in
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the road that you're on and realize that we, the church digital are representing and working
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with all sorts of organizations like the ones listed on this page to get the idea of digital
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missionaries out there in a massive, massive way. So let's do this. Let's dig in to what's
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happening with the digital neighborhoods conference. Specifically, we're going to be kicking doors
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open 10 a.m. Eastern. That's U S Eastern. That's UTC negative four for our global friends, but we're
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going to be opening this conference in, uh, in tomorrow, 24 hours or I started to say next week.
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I wish instead, it's going to be tomorrow, 10 a.m. Eastern. And so you can jump on here,
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missionary digital missionary.digital www.missionary.digital slash neighborhoods. And so learn
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more about that. You can see, uh, Jason Jamo, one of our first keynote speakers, our first keynote
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speaker for this season. He's doing an incredible talk. Excited about that. Look at this. The digital
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gathering begins at 19 hours, 36 minutes. My heart just, my heart just bumped on that 19 hours away
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from this. Uh, 10 a.m. Eastern doors open. First keynote is 11. Now, you know, when you come to a
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digital missionary conference, this is not a webinar that you just sit back and play in the background
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and consume content. Who wants to consume content? That's so boring. We want you to lean in. We want
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you to dialogue. We want you to ask questions. We want you to sit around a table, meet some other
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people. We want to create communities centered around supporting digital missionaries. And I can't wait
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to show you some of the stuff we've got coming up, uh, with Hublot. And so we're going to get to, we're going
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to walk through the platform here in a second, but check this out. Uh, mark your calendars, invite your
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friends, 10 a.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. CET. Excited about kicking this off. Tomorrow, register for free there.
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And here's your lineup. Platforms is placed as Jason Morris, rethinking the digital map, kicking the talk
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off. Great with that. And then we've got, uh, 12 and that's from 11, 15 to 11, 40 Eastern.
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And then we've got a number of talks coming up, uh, breakouts.
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Uh, Murheret and, uh, Melissa Emil from Jesus Film Project talking about creating, uh, interactive
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spiritual journeys with a software called Next Steps. Uh, communicating cross-culturally with
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honor, authenticity and humility. Keegan West and Bevan, uh, empowering believers beyond the pew. Dr.
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John being the church on social media and introducing Seed Bible, a new digital Bible platform. Excited
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about this. Craig Bradley, Nick Smith talking about the power of AI for discipleship. Micah Bales planting
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churches, microchurch networks with a pest. Um, we're talking Alan, uh, Taco. Why are they in the room?
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Reaching once shut the door, unlocking Google secret ad toolbox, Cameron Bailey. So, so we, that's just
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scratching the surface. What we got on breakouts, fluent faith, Jeff Vanderstelt. I've been waiting
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for Jeff Vanderstelt, Vanderstelt to share with this talk with y'all for a year, for a year.
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Scheduling conflicts one after another, either him or on me, like back and forth. And I was like,
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no, no, I don't want to do this as a podcast. I want this as a conference. Like this is, this is,
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this is a heavy hammer. The man's going to be swinging and I can't wait for you to hear it.
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Audience tracking. Your mind's going to get blown because mine was. First time I heard audience
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tracking, uh, was beautiful. I'm going to see that come on more, more breakouts. Dr. Tim Yee,
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uh, did soul care for digital missionaries. Lucas Pulley talking on calling underground network,
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talking about how to be called or what you're calling looks like. By the way, digital friendly
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organization. Can you be called to, to, to like a digital platform? I think so. Let's find out.
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Uh, Wes and Leah Brooks talking venture AI. Liz Anderson doing a deep dive on audience map. Andrew
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Jones talking augmented reality. Why we need recovery from, from Stacey Knapp. Alina Delp just
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talked to her a couple of minutes ago. Uh, real faith in virtual spaces.
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My friend, Tim Selleck. It's going to be another one. Good. Good. Another one too. Reaching the one
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excited, excited about these that are coming up.
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Maybe the best talk of the day as excited as I am for the others. Dr.
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Pichelischenko, uh, talking about apprenticing in the wild, reproducing leaders for digital mission.
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I want to see, Oh, you know what the text, they cut it out. Who's Pichelischenko?
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Yeah. This guy is, I mean, I want to say directly responsible, indirectly responsible. Let's say
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directly responsible because even as you're apprenticing and multiplying leaders, at some
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point you get in directly, but this man started it. Pichelischenko through crew is in, in global,
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uh, global church movements responsible for something like 2.4 million churches planted globally. That's
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2.4 M with million with an M 2.4 comma 0, 0 comma 0, 0, 0. It's a lot of churches. And what does it look
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like to reproduce leaders? Well, how do you reproduce leaders for 2.4 million churches? I don't know. You
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just maybe start one at a time. Well, how do I start one at a time? He's going to tell us. And so
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excited about the idea of reproducing leaders, reproducing churches, starting a movement that
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grows beyond us. Y'all, this is going to be a challenging conference, live keynotes and breakouts,
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an incredible amount of connections, uh, table meeting peers, processing through times together
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with always. And if you know any of the events that I do always viable, powerful, real time engagement,
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super, super, super, super excited about the road that we have starting tomorrow for our digital
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neighborhoods conference. So what's it going to look like? What are we going to do? I want to walk you
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through that process right now. Uh, you are going to go to, um, let me see if I can fake this. Jeff,
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can you fake this? I can fake this. You are going to go to name. If you've registered for the conference,
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which I hope you have, you're going to go to neighborhoods, neighborhoods dot missionary dot
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digital neighborhoods dot missionary dot digital. Uh, you're not going to see that because I'm
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taking it instead. You're going to see this page pop up, uh, which is going to give you
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a place for you to enter your email address. You enter the email. You'll get these instructions
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via email. You probably already have today. As a matter of fact, if not, you will soon,
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but you're going to type in your email address that you registered for. Chances are, it's the same
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email address that you get blown up with all the church dot digital email addresses. I'm going to
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type my email address in there, and then you're going to get a log in code. This is probably going
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to get sent to your, uh, to your email address. I'm going to just accept cookies to get out of the way,
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but this is what's going to be sent to your, um, email address, get that code and paste that four
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digit code here, uh, in, in Hublot. And that's it. It's going to let you in a super easy, super simple,
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and you're going to see a page that looks like this. Well, it may ask you some biographical
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questions. It's going to like tell you to upload a photo of yourself and, and who you are and what
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your title is and what you do and what some of your interests are. I would encourage you lean heavily
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into creating that profile because what you're going to see here with this, this online conference,
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it's not a webinar where you sit back and talk. You know, me, we lean in, we talk, we dialogue, we
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two-way conversations to maximize your, uh, the benefit of this conference. You're not an outsider.
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You're somebody who's sitting, you're leaning in to the conversation. So I want to encourage you
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to build out that profile and get ready to come in and lean into the conversation.
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But this is where we are here with the reception area. You can see, you know, some stuff about the
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conference. You can see our schedule of what we got for the keynote speakers
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and, uh, and, and the sponsors and other things. And we're still building out a lot of these sections.
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Um, and then you're also going to see, uh, some things move forward. Uh, some of our, our keynotes
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we've got here, you can come forward and see that, you know, you won't have to join us host button
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because I'm cool and you're not. Uh, but you'll be able to join that session when it's time.
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You'll also be able to see the breakout rooms and you can scroll through all the breakout rooms that we have.
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And so you can see more of that. Just give me a little taste of that.
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There's a digital summary, uh, intro video. You can play that back and listen to that. And that's,
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that's great. And then there's a leaderboard down here. It's got all sorts of, oh my gosh,
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I'm kicking everybody's butt. I got 123 points. Uh, I think that's because it's the amount of time
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I spent in tables and in breakout rooms, but the more that you interact with people,
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the more that you can win the game. And so I encourage you to try to win the game.
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Evidently Mehret, uh, over at crew is a Jesus film is, uh, is winning the game. Dr. Tim love,
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love, love me, Dr. Tim. Dr. Tim is, is winning the game too. And so here at the reception,
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when you log in, this just gives you an overview of what's going on in the conference,
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but what you really want to lean into is really this menu bar up here. Okay. It's going to give
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you the schedule of what's going on, which doesn't, I mean, it looks, this is really the schedules,
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how you access the keynotes, the breakout rooms, by the way, is the next tab here.
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This is where you see all the rooms. And so when it's time to join the rooms, uh, you can choose
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the one that you want to, they're all labeled with like the, the name of the speaker, the topic and the
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organization they're with. And so you've got all sorts of access to that. You can click on the tables
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and have a conversation. A lot of our tables are sponsor-based. So you see global church movements
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right up here at the top next to the church digital. And then we've got crew, we've got God tools,
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we've got Jesus film next steps. We've got right now media. We've got Reliant. Uh, we've got Cherith.
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Uh, we're going to have a prayer table here, uh, meet somebody new. We're going to have different
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topics that are going to be on the tables, but listen, this is all set up for you to engage
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in the dialogue, uh, with somebody that's doing ministry globally. Find people, learn from them,
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ask questions, uh, dialogue. Like, Hey, in, in the world of, of square pegs that don't fit in round
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holes, uh, it's, it's time to get the square pegs together and get them to connect. That's what we're
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trying to do here with the conference and specifically with the tables is get a way to connect in the
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dialogue, uh, the breakout rooms. This is a great way to talk on, to learn something on a specific
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topic and to ask questions in the dialogue. The keynotes are a great place for your head to explode
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because I know these particular speakers on these particular topics make my head explode. And if my head's
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exploding, chances are you're going to be to yours as well. But the tables, the tables are designed for
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you to interact in the dialogue directly with people. So go meet some people, have some conversations,
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lean into it. Hey, check this out. I'm excited about this. Our sponsors booth. We have a virtual booth
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set up with all sorts of resources for Jesus film, next steps, cruise building,
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there's our global church movements. Uh, I had, I talked with, uh, someone in Albania today, uh,
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about building this out and excited to see this crew. God tools, you know, let's, let's lean into the
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Jesus film when I want to see what Jesus film next steps. And so they got a video up here at the top.
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I'm hearing that. I'm not sure if you guys are.
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Yeah. I'm not sure if that's working to you, but hopefully, hopefully you heard a little bit of that.
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That was fun. Uh, and so you can learn more about them. You can interact with their social media.
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You can, you know, take a next step on how to do that. You can watch videos. You can see some of the
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services that they're offering. You can, oh my gosh, I want to talk to Melissa. I'd love to. And so you
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can even click on chat and you can have a direct one-on-one conversation with Melissa or with
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who's going to be on the stage or maybe, Hey, I'd love to like, maybe this is Melissa available for a
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quick face-to-face conversation. Click on me and go ahead and do that. And if she's available, great.
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And if she's not available, she'll, she'll say no. Like once again, the reason we do these conferences
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are for you to meet people. And so maybe just, maybe it's an opportunity for you to meet some
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people, ask some questions and learn about some of the software, learn about some of the functionality,
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learn about some of the features, learn about some of the opportunities you'll, you'll have, uh,
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how these organizations can help you be a better digital missionary. I hope you're getting
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excited about this. And so we've got, oh man, they've got all sorts of videos up here at the
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top. I'm curious how they've jumped that. Is that YouTube? I guess so. This is, I didn't know you
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could do this. This is cool. You see all the different Jesus films up here at the top. Maybe I should do
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that. Cool. God bless the people at Hublot for building this platform out. And so you can see,
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once again, all the sponsors that we've got here, um, Alliance mission, project, Exodus regeneration,
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uh, bam portals, um, uh, Reliant, the church digital, of course, right now, media crew, God tools,
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uh, next steps, Jesus film, and then crew global church movements. There's a lot of energy coming into
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here with a lot of resourcing that we want to see happen at the global level. And then there's the
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happening now where, okay, like what's open right now. So there's a breakout room that's open. It's
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our test room because we haven't officially launched the conference, but you click on this happening now
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tab and it's going to show you all the breakout rooms that are currently open or the schedule,
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what's happening on the keynotes or, or what's happening, what tables, who's actually sitting down at a
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table right now that I can join. And so the happening now is like, I want to join something.
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How, how can I get, how can I get in? Where am I? I'm coming in late. I don't want to be awkward.
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How do I find the action? And so happening now is, is going to be that. And so this is,
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it's just an overview of the menu that's, that's up on the top. Some other things to highlight,
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uh, the schedule, uh, what, what, uh, what things are coming up on your schedule. What do you want
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to be a part of? By the way, if you're over here, I believe that I have joined as a host,
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but I'm pretty sure you guys have a button here. Oh, you see where it says right here,
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add to your calendar, take a note or add to my schedule. You see that? So you want to put this
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on your Google Cal, click that and put it on your Google Cal. You want to take a note that put it
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into your account. You want to add to your schedule. You can do that. Uh, and that is already now added
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to my schedule. And now I'm going to come up here to my schedule and click. Oh, look, look how cool
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that is. Jason Morris is on my schedule. So I know I'm not going to forget it. Take advantage of the
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platform. The church digital is going to be working with Uber for a long time to go. So lean into this
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platform, uh, get at home because if you love the church digital, you will be getting used to.
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Google it's going to be a good, good thing. There is notifications, uh, and things, people that are
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viewing your profile notifications that are people are wanting to chat or talk with you. You'll see a
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lot of things in this space and, and, you know, push notifications that we'll send out throughout the
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conference. And then of course there's messages. My friend Cameron Bailey, uh, reached out a minute ago,
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but a lot of the DMS that you'll see are going to be through the messages. And so this is this
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platform. You're seeing how this is not a typical webinar. Y'all like I, you will never hear me say
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they, they market this as a webinar platform. And I'm like, why are you insulting your platform so much?
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This is nothing to do with webinars. Webinars is like whole other thing than what this is. This isn't,
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this is a online experience. And so joining the digital missionary conference is a great way for you to get
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connected into a, the online experience that we're off for offering this week. And we're going to be
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using the same platform for the, uh, for the crisis recovery next week and the European conference in
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two weeks. We're realizing in three weeks, the gaming gamers like discord for whatever reason.
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So we're going to go over to discord for that one. Uh, uh, we've got you to pay. This event is
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packed with very, very relevant topics. I'm excited. I'm, I'm actually curious to take on some of this
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because we're, I mean, we're, we're, we're challenging a lot of things here. Uh, when we're
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talking the digital neighborhoods conference specifically, it may make some people uncomfortable.
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If you know me, I'm okay with that. Uh, but, uh, it's, it's very, very exciting where we're going to be.
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Okay. Listen, so here's, here's what I need from you in the short term. We are, let's, let's pull
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up the webpage. As of me recording the video, we are 19 hours, 18 minutes at 41, 40, 39, 38. We're
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seconds away, 19 hours away from this conference happening. We've had a spike of people register,
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which is very exciting, excited to see the spike, uh, come about. Uh, and just obviously want to see
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that. It's so funny. You plan for months, you communicate for months and everything. Everybody
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signs up for everything. I love it. It's cool. No problem. Here's what I need you to do. Um,
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I want you to help get the word out. And so we've, we've built, a lot of you have heard me talk about
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this, uh, some media kits, some shareable graphics that you and some social media posts that you can
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help us get the word out. So clicking on the digital neighborhoods, gives you some information. Once
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again, the cost on all of our conferences, uh, is, uh, is free. It gives you a list of keynote speakers,
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but if you want speaker graphics, the Kelly Schenko, Cheryl Boyd, Jeff Vanderstelt,
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our own JMO opening up the keynotes for that, you can, you know, copy these and put them into so
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and paste them in the social media platforms. You can save them and reuse them, use them. I, I often
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put graphics and stuff like this, uh, as to text, to invite people to join online events or even like
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physical things too. Or we've actually created like complete shareable graphics that you can just copy
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everything, copy and paste it in. Uh, and so there's a number of pre-written social media posts
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that are available for that, or other graphics that you can copy and utilize, download the whole thing
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all in one fell swoop. Help us get the word out. First off, I do believe within your own social media
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networks, with your own influence. There are people that can utilize these resources. And so
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please take the opportunity, download some of these resources, get out there. One, just
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scatter seeds, see what sticks, because there's probably some people within your influence that
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might be interested in being a digital missionary like you, that might be interested in learning
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what sharing the gospel looks like in digital and virtual space, what the gospel
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can be, what discipleship is in digital and virtual space.
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I want to challenge you with this. And I said this previously, find somebody who can join you
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and personally invite them to this conference. Find someone who you want to mentor, to disciple,
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to train, to come alongside you. Cast vision with that person and ask them to sit through this conference
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with you so that they can better understand your ministry. Find the person that's going to come alongside
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you. If you're Paul, find your Timothy and join them in the journey. Find someone who can financially back
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you. Maybe it's a donor. Maybe it's someone in the family. Find someone who has financial resources
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that maybe doesn't understand what exactly you're doing. Maybe it's not like a major donor. Maybe it's
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just a family member that might be interested. Find small, simple ways to start in this. But if you're
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really trying to have a conversation about, okay, what does it mean to be a digital missionary and you're
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having a hard time explaining it to this person? Let the conference do the work for you. And third to
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that, maybe invite somebody that, either from your existing church or, you know, somebody who doesn't
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understand, not that is angry or, or, or bitter or judgmental, but maybe someone in your life that,
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that you've just, you know, like one of my close friends, like to this day, he'd say to me, he says,
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Jeff, I still don't understand what you're doing. Like it, the mind doesn't click for him. Like he's,
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he's, he's in ministry. He's incredible. Uh, he's very helpful as, as a person, but he just doesn't
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get it. And so conferences like this, this may be an opportunity to see a light bulb go off in
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somebody's eyes. And so take this opportunity to invite two or three people, find that person you
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want to apprentice to mentor, find that person that can help you, um, donate and help fund the,
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the work that you're trying to do. Maybe find that person that would be helpful if they were a
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part of it, he or she were part of it, but they're not quite there yet. Personal invitations for them,
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scatter seeds. Yes. Personal invites. Yes. As well. I want to challenge you both to do that. So scatter
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seeds, personal invites. Some of you, I just, I want to personally invite to this and I don't,
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I don't have a URL to this. And so, Ooh, that's the wrong thing. I didn't mean to do that. Um,
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some of you, I want to ask if you can, uh, serve us by, that was a very roundabout way.
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Oh, you know what? You didn't see any of that.
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That was funny. I thought you could see the window I was working in, but I wasn't sure.
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That's funny. Totally. Totally screwed that up. That's funny. It's not, it's not the right URL.
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I'll just do this this way. I want to ask some of you to join us to help serve in some of these areas.
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I'm, I'm looking for volunteers that are capable of serving for a couple hour slots throughout the
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conference. You can still watch the conference and be a part of it, uh, and serve. I'm looking for
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people that are capable of praying. I'm looking for people that are capable of providing some tech
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support. And I'm, and I'm looking for people that are, that are willing to be a greeter, uh,
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in, in some areas and just a relational voice. And so if you can help me, uh, by, um, by praying with
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people at, at a table, if you can help me, uh, pray with people that can greet people at tables,
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or if you can help me with tech support, three very simple, basic things, but would go very far
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in helping the conference go. That would be a major help for us. Okay. All right. I think that's it,
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y'all. I'm excited. We are, let's bring the countdown back up again. Push the magic button.
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We are 19 hours, 12 minutes and no seconds, 19 hours, 11 minutes and 55 seconds and counting down to
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making this thing happen. I'm excited. I hope you're excited. I hope you can share your
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excitement with somebody else. Great things are ahead. Um, I, uh, join me in praying for this event,
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uh, that people get excited for the gospel in digital and virtual spaces. And we can see God continue to
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move digitally globally using, uh, the, the, the tools and efforts and the resources and the commitments
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that we have. My prayer, honestly, is that another wave of digital missionaries is called out of the
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conference and out of the, out of the effort of the conferences that, that that's coming from this. So
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join me in that prayer. And, um, yeah, let's see what's happening moving forward. All right. Hey,
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I'm going to wrap up the stream today, short and sweet. Uh, but thanks for this. Uh, evidently,
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I'm doing a lot of talking tomorrow for the next digital missionary conference, digital neighborhoods
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kicking off Tuesday, Wednesday, 9, 17, September 17th, 10 a.m. Eastern doors open.
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See you there. If you haven't registered, go to www.missionary.digital. Thanks y'all. Have a good
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one. See you all on Wednesday.