Enrolling
1. Click the "Enroll Now!" of the www.lifebibleschool.com website.
2. Fill out the enrollment form. Pay attention to the required fields.
3. Log in to the web classroom provided by Dr. Subida for the Global Webmissions course. When you first go to the LBSI web classroom of Dr. Subida, you will need to register - and choose a username and password. Read other instructions from the welcome and student orientation letter of Dr. Subida.

The Internet is the place the world finds its information and does its private enquiry and thinking. As such, it has become a powerful communication medium for evangelism and missions with one billion people online - including an estimated 400 million “religion surfers” who regularly seek religious information. This course will address questions such as:

1. What is an appropriate missiology of Cyberspace?

2. Can genuine Christian community take place in cyberspace? If so, how can we facilitate such community?

3. What are the most practical and effective methods for Internet evangelism and cybermissions?

4. What online strategies are appropriate for different groups such as postmodern Westerners, Hindus, Chinese

Communists, Buddhists, and Muslims?

(NB: This is not a computer skills course. The focus is online evangelistic strategy and mission)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Articulate a missiological approach appropriate for Cyberspace.

• Think critically about the Internet as a communications tool in the service of the Kingdom of God.

• Design a culturally aware and missional online outreach that incorporates the above insights.

The class will be conducted on the Internet. Each week, student/s and the instructor will interact with the material and each other through journaling, threaded discussions, and webbased research.

REQUIRED READING: A minimum of 1200 pages of reading from the following books,

• Dawson, Lorne L. (ed.) Cowan, Douglas E. (ed) 2004 Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet New York, Routledge

• Jewell John P. 2004 Wired for Ministry: How the Internet, Visual Media, and Other New Technologies Can Serve Your Church.  Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press (Div. of Baker)

• Renninger. K Ann. (Ed.) 2002 Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace (Learning in Doing: Social,Cognitive & Computational Perspectives) Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press

• Rheingold, Howard 2000 The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, revised edition. Boston: MIT Press

• Shenk, Wilbert 1999 Changing Frontiers of Mission. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis

IN ADDITION, required reading of:

• 35 key online articles listed in the course

• 100 key websites listed in the course

• Web Evangelism Guide. – http://guide.gospelcom.net/

• Careaga, Andrew. 2001 E-Ministry: Connecting with the Net Generation. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications

• Engel, James F., Dyrness William A. 2000 Changing the Mind of Missions: Where Have We Gone Wrong? Downers Grove, IL IVP

• Herman, Andrew (ed.). Swiss, Thomas 9ed.) 2000 The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Magic, Metaphor,

Power New York /London: Routledge

• Hesselgrave, David J. 1991 Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally (2nd edition). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan

• McLuhan, Marshall; Fiore, Quentin 2001 War and Peace In The Global Village. Ginko Press

• Preece, Jennifer 2000 Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Sociability Chichester, England, John Wiley & Sons

• Sweet, Leonard. 2003. Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives. El Cajon, CA: EmergentYS books published by Zondervan

• Wilson, Walter P. 2004 The Internet Church. Nashville, TN: W. Publishing Group (Div. of Thomas Nelson)

1. Weekly threaded discussions, journaling, and Web research. (20%)

If you are ready to take the GLOBAL WEBMISSIONS COURSE - fill in the Life Bible School enrollment form