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Granted, you just got introduced to web ministry on the Internets. By your granddaughter. And forcefully so! Your first couple broadcasts started with 20-30 viewers from your church. Only 9 stayed till the end. Half of them were keen and at least two were snoozing...But just a week later, your humble recording with the phone screen held vertically (pls don't do that anymore), got some 500+ views and still climbing. You know for a fact that these can’t be just your church folk. How? Well, when you got the church a few years back, it was running 80 to 100 and today it is … slightly less. You also know they weren’t at your newly invented, grass-root, corn-field and no-where-to-be-found in the Bible drive-in service, because admit it or not, they couldn’t get biggie fries with that and popcorn nowadays is scarce like TP...So, who are these 500 people who are actually interested in your ministry?No, they didn’t watch your whole sermon because you were never trained in seminary how to design it to keep them watching till the end. But these people did come and they did watch.FB indicators are designed to identify individual viewers with specific area of interest and provide paid advertisers with a very targeted, local and active audience that readily engages with the offered content. And these algorithmic indicators just gave you a major audience lead for FREE. A harvest so close, so full, so plump, so ready that if you don’t reach and get it, you might as well quit the ministry and go work your other job full time. And by the way the economy is going, you may be forced to do exactly that if you don’t reach new people before the end of the quarantine. So who are they? FIND THEM! You need them. Your church needs them more than you do. And fast!For this reason, I ask again:Does Lee University offer a Digital Discipleship class that teaches us how to do all of that?Now is the time

With Facebook it is quite easy to connect with many of your viewers. Those that hit like are listed and all you have to do is is invite each of them to become a friend of your page. As more and more friends are made you merely boost your videos (livestream cant be boosted) but your announcement of an upcoming video can be, you boost (advertise) to those who like your page and their friends. And the more likes you get, you keep inviting and boosting. Pretty soon. You will have a big audience. Now besides videos you post other things and when church is open again, you invite all these people to your grand reopening service and connect with them in person. You could easily grow your church service by 10 to 20 percent minimum by doing this. A lot of viewers will be from out of state friends of friends but you can also tailor your ads by geography. Say , 20 mile radius or such depending if you're rural or city. City would limit it to maybe 5 mile radius.

My wife had a video that hit over 100K in a few days on Facebook

You can actually get a degree in this area at Lee. I’m sure there is a class you could take. Click and go to “Digital Media Studies.”www.leeuniversity.edu/academics/arts-sciences/communication-arts/programs.aspx

Is this information accurate? I went to the link but did not see an actual Digital Discipleship class - just general communication. Could you please point us to the class you had in mind

Is this information accurate? I went to the link but did not see an actual Digital Discipleship class - just general communication. Could you please point us to the class you had in mind?