Launching an online bible study for your youth ministry

tokbox Idea:
About a month ago I had the opportunity to participate in some online training (thanks to Tony Steward) to prepare for an online bible study I will hopefully launch in about a week. Using TokBox’s video conferencing capabilities video conferencing has never been easier or cooler. TokBox allows you to have multiple cameras on one screen (don’t forget the headphones).

The Plan:
As of present I am working on polishing off a series on philippians to go through with the group. I find that personal insight from scripture often times carries over much better than pre-packaged curriculum you get in the stores. As far as advertising I am going to create a facebook group and then send out invites to everyone on our facebook fan page in our youth ministry. I also might do some print advertising, however my thought is that the tech savvy kids are probably going to be the one’s interested anyways. We are going to meet every Wednesday night from 9pm-10pm starting the first week of school online. When we start the sessions my hope is to spend some time in prayer, general discussion, bible study and then really challenge everyone to live their faith out practically throughout the week with a takeaway. The hope is that at the end of the first 6 weeks in the study some of the people in the online group will be able to start their own studies with their own friends.

The Need:
The more I think about this idea and this plan, the more I feel that this ought to be a strategy that every youth ministry in the world should use for the cause of Christ. While I’m not arguing that we should move everything online and avoid personal relationships because I’m not. I’m arguing that we ought to be using the tools God has given us to reach a people that that may be connected online but not to Christ.

sidenote: let me know if you are interested in being apart of the study even if you are just curious of how to lead one

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