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Thursday, July 29, 2010
CBCP Monitor July 2010
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Social Media for Evangelization Workshop: A Tweeting, Blogging Faith
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TOP ANCOP/CFC LEADERS DEFINE MISSION; DISCUSS PROJECTS DURING TEXAS SUMMIT
The Woodlands, TEXAS - Top officers of ANCOP (Answering the Cry of the Poor)-Tekton and North America took turns in defining the group’s mission and in discussing projects for poor Filipinos during the...
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Joe Tale, CFC Chairman, speaks to CFC New Jersey Leaders and Members!
CFC Chairman Bro. Joe Tale spoke before some 200 members of Couples for Christ, Kids for Christ, Youth for Christ, Singles for Christ, Servants of the Lord, and Handmaids of the Lord for more than an hour...
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Blessed as a Catholic!
A Full Transcription of Steve Ray's talk to Couples for Christ
(Steve K. Ray is a convert to Catholicism from the Baptist Church. His story of conversion is chronicled in his book “Crossing the Tiber.” He and his wife go around the world telling the story of his conversion and of their belief that the Roman Catholic Church is the one true Church. This is the full transcription of the talk he delivered during the Mission Core Teaching Night, July 13, 2010, Xavier School Gym.)
Good evening. It’s wonderful to be here. I’m a charismatic, too. I’m also a Couples for Christ and there’s my couple right there. Stand up, Janet. I’ve been married to that girl for 33 years – that’s the best thing I ever did. The second best thing I ever did was to become a Catholic. We have four children and eight grand children and they have names like Maria Faustina and Damian Augustine and so on – very Catholic names.
http://www.couplesforchristglobal.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=79:blessed-as-a-catholic&catid=3:cfc-news&Itemid=2
(Steve K. Ray is a convert to Catholicism from the Baptist Church. His story of conversion is chronicled in his book “Crossing the Tiber.” He and his wife go around the world telling the story of his conversion and of their belief that the Roman Catholic Church is the one true Church. This is the full transcription of the talk he delivered during the Mission Core Teaching Night, July 13, 2010, Xavier School Gym.)
Good evening. It’s wonderful to be here. I’m a charismatic, too. I’m also a Couples for Christ and there’s my couple right there. Stand up, Janet. I’ve been married to that girl for 33 years – that’s the best thing I ever did. The second best thing I ever did was to become a Catholic. We have four children and eight grand children and they have names like Maria Faustina and Damian Augustine and so on – very Catholic names.
http://www.couplesforchristglobal.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=79:blessed-as-a-catholic&catid=3:cfc-news&Itemid=2
Monday, July 26, 2010
James Ssemwangu says: Comment
#1 James Ssemwangu 2010-07-10 23:57
Hi every one this is very good news on social media and evangelisation
James Ssemwangu pastoral worker CFC uganda
Hi every one this is very good news on social media and evangelisation
James Ssemwangu pastoral worker CFC uganda
The social media connection
Social Media for Evangelization Workshop: A Tweeting, Blogging Faith
The undeniable call now is to take our faith online through the social media. To rephrase Erik Qualman: It's not a question of whether CFC will do social media, but how well CFC does it. CFC sponsored a workshop last July 1 at the CFC Center in Ortigas about the white-hot issue of social media and evangelization. At the end of the day, it was obvious that the jam-packed meeting hall of about 50 or more people would never look at Twitter, Facebook and blogs the same way again.
Faith Problems
The resource person, Fr. Jboy Gonzales, SJ, first talked about the deficiencies of our faith and why social media can open up the so-called “digital continent” to Christ. Fr. Gonzales, SJ, who happens to be the head of the Jesuit music ministry is also a known blogger and media personality.
Pope Benedict XVI encouraged all believers to see the internet as “the new mission area.” Through a video that encapsulated the power and promise of the social media, the workshop participants realized that if CFC wants to ride on the snowball effect that web presence has given to global brands and culture icons, then it has to start tweeting and blogging.
Some facts from the video seemed to stress the point even more:
If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest.
2 out of 8 married couples in the U.S. met through social media.
Using social media has now replaced pornography as the #1 online activity.
The social media has, by its very nature, the potential to make our expressed, online faith the very opposite of what it has been criticized to be. Twitter, Facebook, blogging, posting photos can make the Catholic faith informed, personal, social, missionary and inculturated.
Fr. Gonzales, SJ also gave some tips on how to get started evangelizing online:
Decide on content. What is it that you could share to the world?
Decide on a platform. Will the blog be a serious blog, a photo blog, an anecdotal blog? Focus on your strength and use it.
Choose a scheme. Will you mostly use photos? Personal experiences?
Provide good content. People will come back to you, if they find substance.
Be consistent. Blog or post on a regular basis and not just when you feel like it.
At the end of the workshop, the participants who were mostly CFC full-time pastoral workers, a handful of students and several CFC leaders, seemed all psyched to be online missionaries. Let's get the world saying, Christ is online!
http://www.couplesforchristglobal.org/
The undeniable call now is to take our faith online through the social media. To rephrase Erik Qualman: It's not a question of whether CFC will do social media, but how well CFC does it. CFC sponsored a workshop last July 1 at the CFC Center in Ortigas about the white-hot issue of social media and evangelization. At the end of the day, it was obvious that the jam-packed meeting hall of about 50 or more people would never look at Twitter, Facebook and blogs the same way again.
Faith Problems
The resource person, Fr. Jboy Gonzales, SJ, first talked about the deficiencies of our faith and why social media can open up the so-called “digital continent” to Christ. Fr. Gonzales, SJ, who happens to be the head of the Jesuit music ministry is also a known blogger and media personality.
Pope Benedict XVI encouraged all believers to see the internet as “the new mission area.” Through a video that encapsulated the power and promise of the social media, the workshop participants realized that if CFC wants to ride on the snowball effect that web presence has given to global brands and culture icons, then it has to start tweeting and blogging.
Some facts from the video seemed to stress the point even more:
If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest.
2 out of 8 married couples in the U.S. met through social media.
Using social media has now replaced pornography as the #1 online activity.
The social media has, by its very nature, the potential to make our expressed, online faith the very opposite of what it has been criticized to be. Twitter, Facebook, blogging, posting photos can make the Catholic faith informed, personal, social, missionary and inculturated.
Fr. Gonzales, SJ also gave some tips on how to get started evangelizing online:
Decide on content. What is it that you could share to the world?
Decide on a platform. Will the blog be a serious blog, a photo blog, an anecdotal blog? Focus on your strength and use it.
Choose a scheme. Will you mostly use photos? Personal experiences?
Provide good content. People will come back to you, if they find substance.
Be consistent. Blog or post on a regular basis and not just when you feel like it.
At the end of the workshop, the participants who were mostly CFC full-time pastoral workers, a handful of students and several CFC leaders, seemed all psyched to be online missionaries. Let's get the world saying, Christ is online!
http://www.couplesforchristglobal.org/
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