Wanna Get Misquoted?

[Justin Rimbo]

Hi people. I'm currently writing an article for an ELCA publication about the use of social network sites like Facebook in churches. If you have anything to say about the way Facebook and other stuff like it is used in your community, contact me.

Specifically, I'm going for how social sites function or don't function in small churches vs. huge churches. But I might include an angle on the (non)appropriate use of Facebook in youth ministry settings, and if your church is neither small nor huge, but you want to share, do it.

[Sam Brannon]

I am way plugged into Facebook but as a tool for the community I serve, I have only started to uncover the opportunities. As it stands, my community is a small urban congregation nestled in the growingly gentrified East Austin area. My first venture into Facebook for the community is with the kids (Confirmation). I just can't get them to come with any regularity so I am shifting from a weekly face to face meeting to a weekly/daily/whatever time I feel like it Facebook challenge group. I will challenge them on the site to go do things, i.e., crash another congregation's Confirmation class to see what others are doing or go to a Wednesday prayer meeting at a Pentecostal church, etc... Thus, I am hoping to meet them in their lives daily rather than just on Sundays, which are increasingly irrelevant for them.