Web-Empowering Your Church

Many churches use their websites simply as bulletin boards for their own members and brochures, to advertise who they are.  But few exploit the Internet imaginatively for outreach, e.g., proclamation, teaching,counseling, service, peacemaking.  Such broad and creative Web ministry requires Web literacy:  the ability of church members not only to access and consume digital information (text, pictures, video, sound), but also to produce and deploy it. This workshop will begin to prepare Presbyterian Communicators to promote Web literacy in congregations and presbyteries through the following instruction/discussion items:

1. Web conferencing (employing telephone conferencing and real time web page editing tools), to inspire your congregation to want Web literacy.

2. Steps toward web-empowering your church

3. Options for inexpensive, collaborative, and easy-to-edit websites

4. Free ways to increase traffic to your church's web site

5. Free and easy-to-use tools for photo and video production

6. A free and easy-to-use sound editor

7. Exploiting large social networks for your church's Web ministry

Click on a link for each discussion item in the Sidebar at right to see details.