ft-outreach

Facebook is a social networking website with over 200 Million active users. How does the church engage, minister to, and help people through this social medium? Furthermore, is there a way to convert connections made in Facebook into potential church members? We tackle the problem with a prototype of application that functions with the overarching concept of “Virtual Outreach over Virtual Church.” Not only do we aim to build an ecology of people helping each other, but by reaching out to people and helping them deal with issues that affect their lives, church ministers and lay leadership can build “social capital” and trust in the digital world. This, in turn, will make their invitations to check out the church family much more appealing. Prospects, thus invited via the Outreach app, will then be routed directly into the church’s Fellowship One database.