EP358: It's Time for You to Move into Your Digital Neighborhood

all right hey everybody welcome to uh the stream here jeff at the church digital

tuesday stream this is episode 358 if you're keeping score at home and uh i am i am running

late i hate to say this uh just kind of a couple things are going on in in life and uh man i'm

even looking at this shirt i have never worn this shirt to stream like i'm very intentional about

what i wear and i would never wear this because of the the stripes it would clash with like zebra

you can even see it we're getting some camera defects after i've been going around i just i've

been running and just did not even think about what i was wearing and what i am doing uh but i am so

excited to talk with you all about what's going on with the digital missionary conference we are a

week away can you believe this a week away from going uh live with the first conference it's

launching wednesday september 17th so a week from tomorrow and and we will be doing our digital

neighborhoods conference to kick it off i'm going to be doing a couple streams this week

trying to hype up what's going on with the digital missionary conference and i've got some fun

stories man it's been a um it's been a really fascinating week uh where just i mean i'm seeing

my cameras freaking out so i'm gonna try something right now okay we're gonna we're gonna go off the

off cuff here i'm gonna stand up i'm gonna get my camera to come up with me and i'm i'm gonna try to

turn off my camera and turn it back on hopefully this works never actually done this before live

on air okay so i'm still getting a hiccup even with the camera off so it's not the camera's fault

hopefully the camera comes back on hopefully the okay it did come back on okay so i'm gonna sit back

down we're gonna it's gonna be cool we're gonna do this like all in slow motion and try to be like

intentional now forget i'm just gonna sit down hey but when i say it's been like that kind of week

it's been that kind of week hopefully the the glitches stop it now in in the stream but i am so

excited about the digital missionary conference and i'm so excited about some of the things some of

the lessons that that i picked up and in learning this week i want to share a little bit about that

uh hey we got mr pete uh mr pete first one here always love to see mr pete in the room hey mr pete

mr pete's hanging out i'm sure over in um uh big screen and so excited about that looking good

there on on big screen thanks mr pete i tell you what like resourcing and encouraging guys like mr pete

doing the digital work that that he's doing and just being a being a friend being a being a network

being a resource being an encouragement to guys like that i am i mean to be honest that's really why i get

up in the morning like that is so cool that we get to do that and that's really the heart of what scott

rambo's another one scott rambo's coming on hi jeff scott rambo's another one of these guys that

you know i just i love that we get to resource i love that we get to help and to encourage you know

scott rambo has gone through uh our edm course and you know and he's had some life struggles in in

in recent weeks and months and and it's it's it's even digitally to come alongside and encourage

uh people that are that are going through hard times you know oftentimes digitally we it's the

um oh but you can't oh but it doesn't work that way oh like it's it's always like there there's a

negative connotation towards it when in fact it actually is very positive it can be very supportive

it depends upon how you want to use it and what's that what that looks like and and in these situations

i just i hope the little bit that i've been able to do digitally has been able to encourage both these

guys and and what they are doing and and really i mean this transitions moderately well as we're

talking about this digital missionary conference you're talking about what we're heading into the

opportunity to i don't know look at these digital platforms not in eyes of negative it's not as good

as physical there's limitations but maybe looking at it with more positive eyes uh maybe looking at it

like a neighborhood what what can this do how can this engage how can this don't don't frame the

conversation in a negative but maybe start to even re-examine what could the gospel look like

in a digital space in a neighborhood you know early on we've always said this i've always said this

um you know we look at churches uh we look at digital like it's it's uh it's a place and in every place

deserves a church and and that's you know was really a lot of our our drive towards towards planting and

helping digital churches you know initially even even in covet season and beyond but it was that every

every place deserves a church and as you look at um a lot of how people are engaging in digital

community and people are leaning into digital community the the more that it encourages us

to take advantage of digital community and to to take the gospel into digital community

and and that's what we're going to talk about a lot of this in in the digital neighborhoods

conference i got to tell you i may be speaking out of turn the digital neighborhoods was the one that i

i probably worked the most on of the four conferences and so selfishly i'm gonna tell you i'm i'm a little

more excited about that one than than some of the others uh to be honest as i was i actually i was i was

driving uh home i was i was working off site this morning and uh i i was listening to snow patrol snow

patrol was on the radio i wasn't really listening to snow patrol though i had like the uh was it the

jefferson's theme song you know americans you know you made george jefferson and i i forget his wife's

name but you know moving on up to the east side deluxe apartment in the sky i'm moving on that was

playing in my head i was i was like singing that over snow patrol as i was stuck in traffic and the

tesla was driving home it was it was it was a chaotic moment but it's this idea that we are are are moving

into these digital neighborhoods and we are inviting you people like you to join us

in recognizing the value of these digital neighborhoods for the gospel now you know it's

it's funny i i actually am uh right now when i picked up a new contract a couple weeks ago i'm

working with a physical church here in miami in october i start with and we've talked about christ's

journey i've got a a large contract a large relationship coming with christ's journey later

this year um which one of our sponsoring churches through the church digital it's a great church so

excited to work with bill white and ryan reed no relation and uh and some of what's what's happening

all of what's happening there in christ's journey but i kind of had like a two-month season where i

was like didn't have anything and stumbled across this uh it's a it's an older it's an older

presbyterian church um and like and it's this you know six seven hundred person worship center

glorious facility uh beautiful buildings uh you know campus wide parking garage and it was this great

location and the church had aged and had gotten down to about 50 50 60 people on a sunday

and what i loved about the church and this is this is what i love is they recognized

that it was old and that they they they needed something new and so they partnered with a

a church plant planter or revitalization and you know over the past couple weeks i've been part of

literally relaunching uh this this presbyterian church and in a very populated area of of miami florida

and it has been it's been an incredible experience but i tell you like the the planter who who came in

he's like yeah my wife and i we prayer walked the city we we we came in with with fresh eyes

looking at things differently imagining what this would be with young people we worked with some of

the older people to get them to understand the value the original pastor who's been there a number

of years is still on staff and engaging and supporting and so it was really listen i've been

part of revitalization and it's it's still early i maybe i'm speaking out of turn but i've been part of

revitalizations that crashed and burned and this one it's like oh my gosh like there's there's potential

uh but it was it was so beautiful it's physical church uh this weekend they had um

so i'm not this is not it's not exaggeration three weeks ago they had four weeks ago they had like

65 people in attendance um last week they were up to 150 like the church had gotten up to 150 on so

but they did a um they did a relaunch a launch of the new church was this past sunday

and dude i'm telling you i have never seen like there were there was a hundred plus volunteers

over the span of 48 hours diving into this church and doing all sorts of work i have never seen

anything like i saw in in in this and launch the church service i don't want to get into the whole

detail we we other than audio we did a whole new video we did a whole new lighting we did a whole new

stream like it was a technologically speaking it was a brand new church and um at the end of it

train volunteers i'm gonna be hanging around for a while with the church for a couple months kind

of helping them but their their launch sunday it was 600 there were 600 adults and 125 kids

they had 725 at a church a month or two ago had had 50 and there was this this really it was funny i

i told the lady uh i got the lady's permission i was like i'm i'm i'm this this was the this was the

most precious moment for for the entire seeing 600 people in this room packed house um worshiping god

hands raised energy um it wasn't and it wasn't i mean this wasn't i don't disrespect the old because the

old have a place but it was a a generational sir worship service it was a community worship service

like it was not aimed particularly at a group but it was was aimed across and the group for the most part

came in and it was it was it was it was beautiful like it was it was tear jerking like i had worked

you know two or three days to 2 a.m i actually was quite sick i've got asthmatic i've got bronchitis

right now and so like i'm doped up and drinking gatorade and all sorts of things just trying to get

through the stream and beyond but it was this really powerful 600 people and i looked over i was running

video switcher and uh for the church and had a couple volunteers doing some other things and

my daughter was running lights and the operations director for the church she was standing next to

me in the booth uh we let her in the booth we normally don't let actually i kicked like eight

people out of the booth because like other people started hanging out and i was like unless you're

pushing a button get out and the operations director started like no no you can stay i like you

everybody else needed to get out but the operations director i looked at her

and i was like so um she was like starting to tear up literally like caught up you know emotionally

in the spirit in this moment as as god is is a revealing what he had as a result of the work

that was done in that place but revitalizing the old and bringing new into it and uh and i asked this i

asked the operations director i asked this lady i was like hey when when is the last time you had this

many people in this building and and she looked at me and she says i've been here 10 years jeff

and we've never come close to this

i as a matter of fact i've got a family member who attends the church a cousin or something right

whatever distant distant relative and he and he made the comment in 40 years

we've never seen anything like that

i asked the lead pastor today and or excuse me the former pastor the former lead pastor

the church today he's now over discipleship and he said we used to do like family events with a local

school and church combined and it would maybe get close but we never had that for a church service

now this is a powerful story for physical church and and and i love it because it's it's very much

part of where i am right now a couple lessons that i learned from this

you have to come in with new eyes

the planter came in with a vision but the vision was informed by spending time in the community

getting to know the needs of the people and and looking at things not the way that they were but

the way that they are or the way that it needs to be you know it's interesting one of the guys

um one of one of my one of my guys went when they were uh when they were doing the install i made a

joke about oh man there's there's lots of skeletons that are you know in the closet just talking about

like you know old tech and old gear and things like that and um and and one of my installers you

know said to me says jeff well by the time this job's done there's not going to be any skeletons left

you're getting rid of all of them but it was kind of it was like let let let go of the past

you know uh was it was jesus uh says let the dead bury the dead and and and in many ways

when you're and i would almost parallel this to digital i still think there's opportunities

to look at digital differently i think that how we are doing like yeah for the church digital

i'm doing that right now like you know once we get past the conferences we're actually going

to slow down november and december because i in my mind 2026 is going to be completely different

digital missionaries edm all that stays the same but but publicly the face of the church digital

and so like it's like it's not looking at the way that it was not recognizing the um the honor of what

happened let's respect it but let's move beyond it and look at what can be i've worked with legacy churches

that were living in the past and and and and and could not let go of the way that it was of the skeletons in the closet and what i learned from watching this new is that by letting go of the past and being open there's so much more opportunity to engage digitally it's the same thing digitally i i would tell you how we're doing it now is nice

but there's opportunities to do something else and being able to let go being able to be agile to adjust is so important and to tie that together how that's going to show up in digital neighborhoods how we're going to talk about how the gospel can be represented and maybe how we as christians we as uh disciple makers we as evangelists we as missionaries in this space

should be engaging with people and and and how we should be representing the gospel i am so excited for this conference because when i put this conference together honest to god i said who would kick my butt

who is who is going to challenge me jeffrey at a personal level on how i am uh reaching discipling evangelizing leading multiplying who are the people that's going to say to me jeff you're doing it wrong you need to think about this

those are the people that are those are the people that are the people that are the people that are going to challenge your mindset of digital missionary work and help you understand the new paradigm that once you see it

it's like the thing you can't unsee it's the thing that explodes it's the thing that explodes it's the thing that all of a sudden everything will fall into place

i had this moment jason morris did this moment with me eight months ago what well no it was probably j it was probably february honestly it was probably february of this year

six months ago jason morris was in a meeting with me one of our senior leadership meetings we were talking about maybe trying to get one of the speakers

jeff vander spelt to speak at the first digital missionary conference and jason morris blew my mind

and and when he did i said everybody i know that's in digital mission work has to understand this

they have to put this in play

and recognizing digital mission missionary work recognizing these platforms in their culture is a huge piece

recognizing how the gospel fits within that culture is huge as well

and helping you understand how to multiply that into others that can help you in your work

if those are the three things you get away with from the digital missionary conference your ministry will be changed

and we're freaking giving it to you for free

here you go

it's on us

y'all i am so excited about i'm excited about all the conferences

i'm going to be focusing on the digital missionary one a lot because it's the one that's coming up in

eight days uh

wednesday september 17th

what is it 11 a.m eastern utc

negative four we're opening doors at 10

we're going to be on a new platform called

hubelo

hubelo hubelo hubelo hubelo it's at hubelo.com

we're going to be sending you for registered

you're going to email from us real quick

on how to set up the hubelo account and and and get in there uh it is a great it is a powerful it is a beautiful it is a wonderful it is an exciting event platform and i'm excited to get our people in there for for this conference coming up on on on on digital missionaries we're going to have

i'm doing quick math in my head that's always dangerous i think we're having four or five

uh keynote talks

for the digital neighborhoods conference four or five keynote talks jason morris i'm going to try to do these off i cannot do these off the fly i'm sorry i'm getting them confused let me pull up the website here it's at missionary.digital

uh missionary dot digital you know let me do this i'm going to push this button real quick

and see if this works and if not i'll be mad at myself give me one second

uh tom says nope i'm not here that's funny i don't even think tom's here

uh just because he says he's not here and then he's not here let me make this adjustment real quick

oh you know what it's going to be too much work

yeah forget it

you know what i said that last time that is exactly what i did if i do two does it show up no it doesn't

okay never mind that's this is why you should rehearse in advance and do check tech checks before you stream

i'm a i'm a bad person towards that so the digital missionaries conference here's where we are

we've got four keynote speakers coming in i'm excited about this

oh my gosh this is cool sorry i just saw now you know what i've got to figure out how to do this

because i want everyone to see this we'll clean this up here a little bit

oh jeff you didn't plan plan in advance no i didn't uh that that's a bad

all right let me kill this we build this over dooby-dooby-dooby-do

i think it's that button yes it is

so how are you all doing

nothing bueller bueller there it is look at that

technology is great when it works i love the nice people at what is this ecamm

ecamm live i'm excited about this all right hey

i wanted to do this anyway the digital missionary conference let's go ahead and pivot i'll show you

missionary digital is the website we'll walk through this real quick brought to you by hey by the way

officially saying this thank you very much crew global church movements

the major sponsor of the digital missionary conference crew

is incredible

so love our friends at crew

uh they multiple departments multiple people

uh over there are investing in the digital missionary conference

it's funny at some point i had to get like all the crew people

on the phone because i'm like hey you all are

you all are like competing against each other like do you want to work together or

how how are we doing this because i've got

uh we've got crew global church movements we've got crew jesus film we've got crew god tools

like there's multiple people uh departments coming in

with crew but love them global church movements we're excited about that

we'll be talking more about global church movements in the conference

um hey so we got the four conferences here

september 17th digital neighborhoods control alt recovered uh that's 24th

october 1st european of course and uh digital missionary gaming on the 8th

let's check out what's happening at the digital neighborhoods conference website

nice video from jason just a nice little countdown here by the way

doesn't jason look great man

dude this guy challenges me on a regular basis

like i actually the church digital would not exist without jason morris

uh that dude just challenging me pushing me

individually spiritually organizationally institutionally at every level

so beautiful

um i mean we've talked about this u.s eastern 10 a.m

100 cost free you can register online

registrations open

but check out some of this we got jason morris is doing the first keynote talk

but then i love this look what's look what we've got listed here

we've got our breakouts

so these are the breakouts these are the things that are happening

in addition to the four keynote talks we talked about this

keegan west and bevan geinder uh doing a communicating cross-culturally with

honor authenticity and humility how many of you

are doing multinational multicultural ministries at this point right

i'm learning from bevan i'm learning from keegan

because these guys are already doing it at a at a global level

and and i want to learn how they're doing it

so we the church digital can be more effective

you can bet i'm going to be jumping in on that one

which stinks for dr john because i really wanted to hear dr john's talk

on empowering believers and oh by the way there's another

and bosarge with digital discipleship of course love and

uh being the church on social media

i've actually had some people talk about this craig bradley

uh in ao labs has been a conversation i've had recently

uh with people that are interested in

his free uh version of the bible free digital bible

and some of the things that they're working for is the digital bible as a platform

you may want to check out what craig's doing at ao labs

nick smith i love the stuff that tapos is doing

uh we talked about that recently at a town hall

i'm not going to get into much of that at this point

but definitely excited

um about some of the stuff that tapos is doing

engaging the sermon and how it connects to artificial intelligence

great stuff and how ai can be your your research assistant to multiply things

planting microchurch networks with apest

um micah bales who's our our digital outpost director

uh digital church outpost director with the church digital

definitely so excited about uh apest

and we're going to be getting more into apest here

uh coming up soon

uh alan deshanou coming in this is um alan is uh church ninja christian ninja

christian ninja some of you in the streaming world would know alan

why are they in their room reaching the ones who shut

the door uh talking about connecting with the different audience

that would be a digital this is a great uh starter course here

starter breakout and then cameron bailey from digital missions project

unlocking google secret ad toolbox if you're not taking

advantage of the grants and if you don't know what seo is

uh then you may want to try this uh breakout and to get into that

all of this is going to be uh i mean incredible i think there's seven or eight

breakouts in that maybe i think there's nine up front and seven at the back

we got close to 16 overall

then we got jeff van der stelt this is the one this guy's going to slap you

upside the head and you're going to realize oh my gosh my entire life i've

been thinking wrong

i don't think i'm overselling that

maybe some of you are going to be like

hey jeff i knew that i want my money back and if that's you that's great

the good news is you didn't pay me anything

it's free so i'm not giving you anything back

which means i can say with courage

you know money back guarantee

this guy's going to challenge you

i promise you with that and uh what the gospel

should look like in digital and virtual space

then we've got oh my gosh i'm so excited about this

uh cheryl boyd with audience mapping now

i audience mapping came up on my radar a while back if you know the

um oh my gosh i can't think of the guy's name right now the

um

yeah this is why i should take notes before i stream and not just come in

cold

but this is going to help you understand what lostness looks like

and maybe the path to help people take steps closer to god

look at the end of the day getting an atheist

to take that first step to being an agnostic

going from there is no god to okay there is a god he just doesn't care about me

like some people would say well that person still doesn't know christ but i would tell you

that moving an atheist to agnostic is a huge step

like and that's something that's something to celebrate internally and externally

to thank god for because that's that's a step uh on on the path

and and what audience mapping is is going to do

is going to help you develop your path that you can walk people through

and to start to recognize okay when i get someone to this point

i mean trying to help an atheist recognize jesus

is is hard helping an atheist acknowledge that there is a god

to be not agnostic level is is actually easier

and so it's helping our audience mapping is going to help

you start to recognize where people are spiritually

and and how to engage in conversations moving from there

so excited about audience mapping

and the cool thing is that there's a keynote

and then right after it there's breakouts

and there's going to be a specific breakout on audience mapping

it's a lab where they will literally help you create your audience map

right there in the breakout like we're wanting to really get practical with some of this so

so care for digital missionaries dr tim yee of course coming in

lucas pulle doing a session on being called

and what calling looks like in digital and virtual

i'll tell you right now the second session i may crash lucas pulleys

because i am excited i love lucas i love underground network i love what they're doing

and and we the church digital we're going to start working closer

with underground network and starting to pull in their resources

and complementing what they're doing uh with what we're doing

it's going to be really really exciting

uh venture ai uh wes and and leah brooks excited about this

uh excited about the road that they're on

liz anderson i mentioned uh digging in deeper

sorry excuse me

digging in deeper to the audience mapping

definitely excited about that

oh oh this this would be a fun one

if you just want to talk crazy

i love this guy

andrew jones some of you made almost tall skinny kiwi

talking about how to prep for augmented reality

what could augmented reality ministry look like

excuse me andrew jones is always the future thinking guy

and i'm so excited to see him

start to dig into

and explore that space there

sorry i'm a little coughed up

stacy knapp why we all need recovery

alina delp

real faith in virtual spaces

and then tim selick

this is a good one too

tim selick on reaching the one

i've i've i've heard tim talk on this

this is a um

this is a very very very exciting uh opportunity

listen

the breakouts we put in were once again

who's challenging me

who's going to say something that's going to be radical

that's going to be outside of the box

who's going to challenge the people

that that are in there

what do they need to hear

and we lined up a very solid crowd

uh line up for this

and then wrapping up

this may be one of the greatest keynotes

listen i'm excited about jeff van der stelt

coming in

and doing his talk

but kelly shanko

this is like

there's top shelf people

you know listen

i'm like a c-lister

there's like b-lister people

there's like a-lister

there's like top top shelf

and then there's like

hey

this guy's like untouchable

but kelly shanko is that

upper echelon

i could not believe

but kelly agreed to come on

to talk with us

but kelly

like i just to put it simple

but kelly is probably responsible

for 2.4 million church plants

across the planet

for starting

2.4 million

that's two with a comma

and a four

and then a whole bunch of zeros

last time i think i said billion

i was out of context

million

2.4 million churches globally

how do you

how do you create leaders

how do you develop church planters

how do you develop pastors

listen

we in digital church world

we say oh we don't have time

but we're doing the work all ourself

as digital missionaries

we're not reproducing ourselves

we're not training others

to come alongside us

and as a result

our ministry is limited

because we're all bivocational

and we don't have time

to do

what god is calling us to do

how do we reproduce leaders

for digital mission

right here

i'm telling you

this lineup

is going to rock it

they are going to challenge you

and it is going

to be

an incredible opportunity

by the way

let's draw attention

to this

check out the sponsors

and the organizations

it's funny

actually i looked

and there's one or two

that are missing

i gotta follow up on

these are the organizations

that are sponsoring

the digital missionary conference

these are the organizations

that are

that are buying in

in the future

work of people

like you sharing jesus

digitally and virtually

man it's a great time

it's a great season

and all this kicks off

next wednesday

check the countdown

seven hours

19 minutes

seven days

oh my gosh

i just gave myself

heart attack

when i said it

seven days

19 hours

22 minutes

and 44

seconds

listen

digital missionary

conference

is going to be

an incredible opportunity

a for you

to be challenged

b

i'm going to suggest

it's an opportunity

for you to maybe bring

one or two people

that you want

to join the conversation

that you want

to be on your team

three

i'm going to challenge

you even deeper

this is a great opportunity

for you to invite

one or two of the people

that you want to be

donors and sponsors

maybe some people

that have influence

and potential

but don't necessarily

see value in digital

invite them to the conference

invite them to listen

into a couple of the keynotes

and join a breakout

and let them get exposure

to what digital missions work

can look like

and the people

and the opportunities

that you have

to take the gospel

into digital and virtual space

the digital neighborhoods conference

will validate

the ministry that you're doing

it's going to validate you

it's going to challenge you

and hopefully

it's going to multiply you

into others

and to be honest

that's the win

if nothing else

we validate your ministry

in front of others

we challenge you

to go to a deeper level

and better understanding

and equip you

to explode

into what God's calling you to do

and three

we help you multiply

into someone else

that can join you

on your journey

or start their own journey

let's go

what are we waiting for

right

like that is

that's the end game

so here

let me do this

I'm going to put this page up

here's what I need

for you to do today

one of course

wrong button

one of wrong button

one of course

right I found the right button

finally sign up

on the missionary.digital webpage

you can sign up

for the digital neighborhoods conference

but then beyond that

we've got a media kit

this is a resource page

where we've got

all sorts of graphics

and social media posts

for all of the conferences

so here's one

for digital neighborhoods

the mission field

isn't physical

digital space

needs the gospel too

there's a social media post

on that with the link

here's a graphic

you can share

we've got several of those

we've got more graphics

basically we've got a ton

of shareable posts

shareable graphics

media assets

and

listen

I'm asking for your help

I need your help

to get the word out

we

for many reasons

we're a little behind

the eight ball

on

these conferences

and I don't necessarily

want to get into it

but at the end of the day

we'll never do this approach

again for conferences

I love what we're doing

but we're going to make it

simpler

moving forward

this was not

in the grand scheme of things

it was a great idea

in the moment

but the day of

it's probably

four conferences

maybe overstretched us

a lot

so

what I want to tell you

today though

is that

we need your help

to get the word out

and invite some people in

so I'm not kidding

invite a couple of your donors

have them

sit with you

and like

you know

connect with you

you can

there's tables

like we had

with Ultra Live

before in Ubelo

where you can have

conversations afterwards

there's breakouts

you can go into

different breakouts

and see different things

get them on different devices

you don't need to be

in the room together

but if you want to be

in the room together

and talk

that's great too

you can certainly do that

invite your sponsors

post about it

on your network

and invite some people

to maybe go to the conference

with you

to be part of your team

or maybe start to get

the word out

in some other circles

where there are more

digital missionary type people

and invite them to be part

of the digital movement

whatever it is

all these resources

for not just

digital neighborhoods

we've been talking

a lot about

digital neighborhoods

but there's

Control Out Recover

a bunch of resources

there

there's a bunch

of resources

for the European

Digital Missionary Summit

and then of course

there's a bunch

of resources

for the Gaming Summit

all of this

is available

at

share

S-H-A-R-E

dot missionary

dot digital

if you go to

S-H-A-R-E

dot missionary

dot digital

that'll redirect you

and get you

into the

right

spot

and so

man that's where we are

it has been

a

I don't know

I'm trying to think

what I want to say

there

it's been a little

bit of a chaotic

sprint

it's been

a little bit

of a

it's been a lot

of distractions

there's been a lot

of

a lot of

health

issues

within the team

organizationally

it's been

it's been a lot

of struggles

the church

digital

has had

there really

have not been

a lot of

points

in my life

I'll just be

honest

there really

have not been

a lot of

points

at least

in the life

of the church

digital

where I would

say man

I really feel

like this

is spiritual

warfare

like you know

sometimes people

just being stupid

with technology

is I don't

I'm not blaming

a demon

I just

you know

we're not

being smart

with it

you know

I don't

in my life

I'm never

one to say

oh my gosh

spiritual warfare

is prevalent

you know

I just

I don't know

that I give

Satan credit

enough

maybe

we can have

that conversation

if you want

but this season

has been really

hard on the

church digital

getting through

these conferences

pivoting

making some

adjustments

backstage

organizational

adjustments

and moving

forward

we will

we will do

conferences

moving forward

we will do

ministry

moving forward

and we've

got to figure

out how to

be a

you know

equipping

digital

missionaries

organization

that does

conferences

right now

we're a

conference

organization

that does

conferences

so we've

got to make

some adjustments

I say all

that to say

be praying

for the team

we are

looking for

ways for

people to

to volunteer

and to help

and so I'm

gonna put links

in fam

for that

I probably

I don't think

I've built

out the form

yet actually

probably should

have did that

before the stream

but I'm gonna

put a link

in fam

and on discord

and whatsapp

you all can

connect with that

we're looking

for some tech

support people

we're looking

for some

some greeters

some family

people looking

for some table

leaders some

prayer people

probably some

other areas

but that's

that's where

we're going

and would

love some

people to step

in for all

of the conferences

to manage some

of those details

moving forward

we will show

we're gonna

stream Thursday

I mean I

don't know

what time

I'm streaming

so let me

look real

quick

on Thursday

I will

stream out

there's the

link

on Thursday

I'm gonna

stream out

at 1pm

eastern

and I will

be talking

about

I'm gonna

show Hublot

we're gonna

get into detail

on Hublot

on what

that looks

like

we'll do

some screen

shares

and walk

you all

around

what that

looks like

and so

be on the

lookout for

that stream

heading into

next week

the Digital

Missionary

Summit

starting

on Wednesday

September 17th

11am

eastern

10am

doors open

for the

Digital

Neighborhoods

Summit

and then

you've got

the 24th

of course

recovery

October 1st

European Summit

and then

October 8th

game

all right

let me tell

you what

I've got

bronchitis

I actually

did not

think I

could talk

for 45

minutes

straight by

myself

I'm kind

of impressed

that my

voice held

up this

long

a couple

days ago

I sounded

like a

8th grade

boy

my voice

was cracking

and I had

no voice

and was

I was

even yesterday

I was

rough

and so

this has

been a

great stream

I have

loved talking

with you

all and

hanging out

I am

very excited

about the

road ahead

where God

is leading

the church

digital as

a whole

I'm excited

about what's

going to come

out of these

conferences

I'm excited

about how

the conference

the digital

the digital

neighborhoods

conference is

going to

challenge you

I promise

pray about

come in

expecting

God to do

something

unique

in that

situation

and

invite him

maybe to

show a

different

mindset

for these

digital virtual

spaces

it's going to

be a great

thing

all right

and on

that note

I'm going

to land

the plane

for me

well

my dog's

right over

there

taking a

nap

my dog

is asleep

I've got

like a

day bed

right there

in my

I started

to say

I've got

a day bed

in my

office

but really

my office

is in

the guest

bedroom

so

I've got

my dog

taking a

nap

but we're

going to

wrap the

plane

we're going

to land

the plane

and wrap

up

because

I tired

for

everybody

else

that was

on the

show

this is

Jeff

at the

Church

Digital

thanks for

being on

the stream

we'll see

you on

Thursday

as we do

a screen

share walk

through

Hublot

see y'all

later

bye