Lessons from leading an online bible study
Tonight I was fortunate enough to lead my first ever online bible study using tokbox. The study was targeted towards teenagers in our youth group. In total we had roughly 8 or 9 students attend the online meeting. The meeting went great and I’m pretty sure we’ll continue to meet. Here are my notes from the meeting…
1. webcams aren’t for everyone – this technology may still be a ways down the road before it is something everyone owns and uses
2. being prepared is a must – leading a discussion can be intimidating without actual people there in the room so having good questions and material saved the meeting in my opinion
3. start earlier – we went from 9pm- 10pm next time I think we will aim for 8:30pm-9:30pm per their request
4. build community because an online bible study can feel impersonal I challenged our group to build community through using twitter, facebook and connecting with others throughout the week
5. takeaway I gave the challenge to most of the students in our group to write a story for the website
- Launching an online bible study for your youth ministry
- 3 tech solutions every youth ministry should use
- 9 reasons why your youth ministry should host an online bible study
- 10 ways I might fail this year
- Prayer as glue
