{"id":13896,"date":"2025-06-18T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13896"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:37:58","slug":"world-ministry-opportunities-in-27-digital-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13896","title":{"rendered":"World: Ministry Opportunities in 27 \u201cDigital Nations\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Bible Society, June 4, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many people who aren\u2019t encountering the Bible in their daily lives are part of online communities which are new mission fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the finding of our new report, Digital Nations. It finds that some 5.5 billion people globally spend more than six hours per day online, where digital mission is not always strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Churches and Christian organizations have a new mission opportunity, the report argues. The report identifies 27 online channels or \u201cnations,\u201d such as Play Store, YouTube, and WhatsApp. Each has a different constituency and needs to be communicated with in different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblesociety.org.uk\/research\/digital-nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story and download the report<\/a>. Key findings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In-person missionaries outnumber digital missionaries 25 to 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Digital nations are Bible \u201cdeserts\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Digital missionaries often feel isolated and under-resourced<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking for ways to engage digital nations? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentproject.org\/embassy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Crescent Project\u2019s Embassy program is one option<\/a>. They equip volunteers to connect with English-speaking Muslims in closed countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also find lots of resources for your metaverse mission at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurch.digital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">theChurch.digital<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently we shared another Bible Society report that has gotten attention and continues to spur conversation. See <a href=\"https:\/\/churchmissionsociety.co.uk\/cr\/AQiK1QQQh5mWBxistrrsAf6R467fTd2PPKVVZBIc8vPXCKq5SeAei3aQSQy3Kf0-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Migration and the \u201cQuiet Revival\u201d: What the Bible Society Didn\u2019t Say<\/a> (Acts 11 Project newsletter, Church Missionary Society).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Bible Society, June 4, 2025 Many people who aren\u2019t encountering the Bible in their daily lives are part of online communities which are new mission fields. That\u2019s the finding of our new report, Digital Nations. It finds that some 5.5 billion people globally spend more than six hours per day online, where digital mission &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World: Ministry Opportunities in 27 \u201cDigital Nations\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13897,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13896\/revisions\/13897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}