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Why? God is a God of the people. He loved the world so
much he gave his only begotten son Jesus Christ so that we
would not perish but have everlasting life. When our Lord
Jesus Christ was on earth he always went to where the
people where so that people could hear the gospel. When he
was leaving he gave the church the global mandate in Acts
1:8 to take the gospel to the uttermost part of the earth.

The church can carry out this global mandate more
effectively with social media because the people today are
on social media. Social media is massive by any standard.
Today there are 2.3 billion active Facebook users, over 1
billion daily YouTube users and over 400 million active
Twitter users – and that is only 3 of hundreds of social
media sites. The good news is social media does not have to
be so intimidating if we approach it wisely.

GO GLOBAL CONFERENCES & STRATEGIC
WORKSHOPS hold leadership- conferences to inspire the
mindset of pastors, leaders and ministers and also hold
strategic workshop training on how to utilize TV, social
media e.g., Google plus, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and
Instagram and introduce each church or ministry in very
simple ways to how they can use TV and social media for
themselves until they can eventually develop and execute a
social media strategy for their church or ministry and be
planted locally then spread globally to reach more people
all over the world with the gospel.
The workshops are more in-depth trainings which
are specifically targeted to make the pastors, church
workers and volunteers skilled enough to confidently
manage the platforms for their churches and very

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