23 Ways to Use Cellphones in Ministry

Find ideas for evangelism and discipleship for your mobile phone. (This list was originally written before tablets became so popular, so many of these ideas would also work on your iPad or Kindle Fire.)

I’m re-posting this with permission from the original author.   I tried to update as much of the information as I could since technology changes rapidly, but please comment if any of these ideas could be better presented.  What ideas have you tried?

With Basic Cellphones:

• Audio
  • Interactive Voice Response (IVR), for example:
    • Telemensahe
  • Text messaging
  • sending out SMSs with short devotionals, and asking people to forward them to their friends
  • 4 Spiritual Laws by text message
  • Discipleship Message Subscription, for example:
    • www.2cast.net
  • Prayer request distribution using:
    • Text messages
    • Facebook groups
    • Twitter

With Feature Phones

• Browsing to Christian websites, for example:
  • www.everystudent.com/mobi
  • www.jesus2020.mobi

• Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) advertising
  • Advertise your blog or website
• Bluetooth evangelism, sharing the following with other cellphone users:
  • The “JESUS” Film and Global Short Film Network video clips:
    • The Demoniac
    • My Last Day
    • Dollface
    • La Liberte
    • La Busqueda
  • Books
  • Videos & audios of Christian teachers

With Smartphones

• Advertising of evangelistic websites
  • Google Adwords
  • Google Banner ads
  • Facebook status updates
  • Facebook ads
  • Facebook “Like”
• Browsing to Christian websites, for example:
  • www.everystudent.com/smart
  • www.jesus2020.mobi
  • topchretien.jesus.net
  • www.imawitness.com

• On-line evangelism and discipleship using:
  • Smartphone applications, for example:
    • GodTools
    • Knowing God Personally iTunes app
    • YouVersion Bible
    • Family Life Audio iTunes app
  • Distance Learning discipleship, for example:
    • The mLearning Project
  • Downloading content from Christian teachers, for example:
    • www.josh.org/resources
  • Chat on:
    • Facebook
    • Skype
    • MSN
• Off-line evangelism & discipleship
  • Download evangelistic videos onto your phone and then show them to start conversations.

Guest post by Anonymous

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