I’ll never forget the day a few years ago that I received a friend request on Facebook from my parent’s friends. Why would I want to connect with a bunch of people in their 60′s? Facebook is a young person’s game!
That was then. This is now. Today, over 700 million people use Facebook. Business, organizations, governments, families, and friends join on social networks to share information. As a pastor, I use social media everyday to connect to congregants and the community.
As a minority in the ministry field, my youth and use of social media is often a source of curiosity in a world of aging churches and aging church people.
This past week at the American Baptist Churches Biennial in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I gave three interactive lectures on social media entitled, “Sink or Swim: Treading the Sea of Social Media”. My goal was to give a practical frame work around how to use social media for churches and organizations. I truly thought that most of the attendees would be young people.
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