Twittering for Jesus

Orginally published on Monday, April 28, 2008 at 7:22 AM
by Todd Rhoades

Perry Noble "Twitters." So does Tony Morgan. What does this mean? Well, it simply means that these guys are sharing their lives throughout the day through Twitter.com, telling the whole world what they're up to during the day. (For example, recently Perry was working on the plans for Mother's Day at Newspring Church. Tony was headed off to a leadership strategy meeting to discuss NewSpring's future. Have you ever heard of Twitter? If not, maybe it's time to spread your wings and discover a new, free tool that you can use for ministry. Twitter is a social networking tool that many pastors and church leaders are starting to use to communicate on the Internet with their friends, colleagues, and church members.

Why should you care? Well, quite possibly you don’t. But I wanted to introduce you to a new possibility for your ministry. If you’re looking for a way to connect with your church often throughout the week—to give them an inside look at your ministry life and to share in a brand new way the vision and mission of your church, Twitter may be just the tool for you.

I Twitter. Last week, while I was in Orlando at the Exponential Conference, I was giving instant Twittering nuggets from the conference. In fact, if you had been reading my Twitter feed, you would have gotten notice of our live interviews with Andy Stanley, Rick Warren, Dave Ferguson and many others. We were able to stream these interviews live, but only had a few minutes notice, so we sent out ‘twitters’ to let everyone know what was happening. Scott Hodge and Chris Elrod are pastors that I was hanging out with at the conference… they also used Twitter to their tell their friends about what all was happening..

Could Twitter be a cool tool for your ministry? Check out a little more about the possibilities here. And give it a try!

I use the small download Twhirl to read all the updates from the people I’m following. Here are some of the people that I think you might like to add to your Twitter list:

Me (of course!)

Perry Noble

Tony Morgan

Kem Meyer

Anne Jackson

Geoff Surratt

TallSkinnyKiwi

Los

DJ Chuang

ScottHodge

ChrisElrod

Bobby Gruenwald

Terry Storch

Feel free to add your name to the list in our comments section!  And, please DO share how YOU are using Twitter!

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Hi... I'm Todd Rhoades. I'm a Christ-follower, husband, father and I love to connect leaders with other leaders. Hopefully you'll find something here at MMI you like and will return often. If you want, you can find out more about me or follow my every step on Twitter.

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