Can Streaming Replace Traditional Ministry?

: Oh hey, hey, hey, welcome in everybody. Welcome in, welcome in, welcome, welcome, welcome. Let me see who all do we have coming in here. Party of 33 on Simore Prime, just followed. Hey, hey, Onimus with the follow. Thank you, buddy. Appreciate you so much. Chovy, if you're not following, try what are you doing with your life? Pastor Duon just followed. Master Du, Pastor, I said Master, welcome in. Mom Boss Lady, good to see you. Lusty for short, by the way. Lusty for short. And Geek Divo 777 just followed. Suic Saved by Grace, hello, hello, hello, my friend. I'm watching you people. Good to see you over here. Me 777 Warrior, Uncore of like 777 just followed. P just did a podcast with Warrior of Light on Thursday night. You can check that out. J Save By Grace saying hi to Mr. Elbin O Plastus right there. Whyis himself, Loc is coming in with the Ra Warrior. I did not know you wore your supplication. Welcome in, friend. Mama B, Brick Builds, it's good to see you. Uh, why was it saying you wasn't following is the real question, Boss Lady. Penguin just followed. Duon. Uh, let's see. I just jumped down. I, Mama Build, I really enjoyed your stream. Yeah, I was catching a bit of it. It was really nice. Uh, that's how you found out about Blessing Boat. Awesome. Yeah. Uh, anyway, anyway, welcome in everybody. If you're new to the Blessing Boat, hello. I am Flat Cap Dapper Pastor, realizing that I need to get a logo or something here because I'm streaming with the Church Digital, and I'll talk more about that in a second. So I have been streaming on Twitch, have been affiliate for over three years, and Blessing Boat was one of the communities of streamers that I found three and a half, four years ago, and started connecting with more streamers and trying to build relationships with other people. I'm watching you people. Thank you for the hype and the B. We make the follower goal. I have no idea what the goal is. Uh, it was set before I took over here, but uh, hey, anyway, I appreciate every bit. Tip and sub are fantastic. Uh, yeah, Mama Boss or Mom Boss Lady, you are interested in sign language as well. That is awesome. That is awesome. Uh, Mods, make sure you clip. Please, yeah, absolutely. Uh, you know what, you should have said that. I do think I can, no, it doesn't clip. It's set up for my other stream to clip on the stream deck. I haven't, what's funny is a couple of the scenes have the same name, so they work on two different ones. I just didn't name everything the same, so uh, wasn't able to, aren't you the mod? Yeah, yeah, Warrior. I think you might be one of the only mods here. I do not know, and I don't have commands yet. I'm watching you people. Uh, I know you had to try, and I appreciate that. That's what I love about going into places is just trying things, experimenting, all of those kinds of things, uh, which is what I have been doing for several years. So what I'm going to be on for two hours, okay? So if you've not been on the Blessing Boat for, or if you have been on the Blessing Boat before, often it's been, oh, oh, oh, what do we have? Who, who, who is this? Who, who? Okay, wow. How many did we just get? Um, Anonymous Gifter is gifting 20 Tier One Subs. Oh, oh, my goodness. 20 Tier One Sub. I have no hype. I have no, I have no hype. You know what? I'm going to give you this. Let me see if it works. Let me know if you can hear this, anybody. Let me know if you can hear that, anybody in here. Blessed, I'm blessed. Anybody in here blessed? I'm blessed. Oh, man. Thank you, thank you, thank you for that, everybody. Enjoy the emotes. Start blowing up the chat with the emotes. I worked really, I'm just going to say I worked really hard getting some emotes over here. I'm pretty proud of some of those emotes. Some are just filler, but some of them I'm pretty proud of those emotes. They took a little bit of work of adjusting and making some things work, and I love them. So uh, enjoy them. By the way, the microphone one was super fun. Uh, the world swirling around, uh, the cross zooming in and out. By the way, if you'll notice that is pixelated, it is coming together, or it is going out, depending upon which way you want to look at it. Uh, Mom Boss Lady Penguin, I know a little bit. You've learned two songs. Uh, Miss Maria, oh, that's right. You have done it for there. I should have thought about that. Has one, uh, she shows that's right. Uh, on her stream, and she might do a second one. That's super cool. I have no commands at all. I have no commands. I, I have, I, I have yet to get command set up on this channel or on the Fish Channel. Yeah, you are the, that is right. I am the hype man. I am hype. I'm hype, hype, hype, hype. Geek Devotions just followed. Oh, Geek Devotions, thank you for the follow. Yes, thank you, Anonymous. Everybody enjoying getting the hype in there. Blessed by the best. Ooh, who is that? Ms. just followed. Oh, I'm, I, I don't, I'm hearing the um, but I will have to wait and scroll down. Um, Docum Mang, Docum Mang Hyms. I think I saw you just earlier today. Phantom Mythos, dude, welcome in. By the way, oh, do you not like the, the, the headphones with the little squiggly not line in there? That's a pretty cool one. Um, I had to do some adjusting to it. I didn't create it, but I had to adjust it to make it work as an emote. Uh, yes, thank you. May God multiply it. Absolutely, Anonymous Gifter. Thank you, everybody, thanking Anonymous Gifter. I love Anonymous Gifters. They're so awesome. You're impressed with how God, how good you've become at making emotes? Yeah, I've been here. Yeah, you remember my first, although my tip of the cap, I was, I'm still very proud of that one. That one I made on my phone, and it's just a gift, and it works, and so it's cool. Um, I'm watching, oh, I got a gift subie. Thank you for not, and I'm like, I'm on for two hours. I can just keep going on the hype here, and I'm going to, we're still on a hype train. We still got two. We're going to make the next level. It's not going to take much to push us to the next level like this. This may be the first hype train that uh, the Church Digital's had. I don't know. I wasn't on here all the time. You are love. You are love. You are love. You are love. That is an awesome emote. Blush your heart. I'm never sure if that's, that's saying I did something wrong, and oh, your flush your heart. You're so sweet. Oh, there we go. Fish sub gift and cheer to level up. Oh, did it fail? Oh, no. 91% close. We got a minute left. Thank you. I'm watching for the B's trying to help us get it there. Um, Mom Boss Lady Penguin, it didn't unlock your emote. Sometimes you have to refresh in order to get the emotes, especially if you're on the phone. So I don't know what you're on. The sounds uh, are a bit on the loud side. Okay, I don't know where those are coming through. I'm assuming they are desktop. So let me, let me do that and turn those down. Would also turned the music down in the background. So I have to turn that up. Oh, which is hard. I can't change it on dark mode. So good enough. I'm talking we have the music before I came in. Try, yeah, try refreshing your page. You're already saying that uh, you'd uh, be in trouble with the headphones with that s. Oh, yes, yes. Two hour hype, hype stream. Oh, would that be fun? Wouldn't that be fun? We're so close. Can we make it to level six? And by a bit, I actually mean extremely loud. I turned it down. I can turn it further down, and we won't be able to hear the music at all. Then so I can just, let me know, just let me know. Hype train successful. What did we get? What did we get here? Oh, we got a choo choo emote there. Super cool, super cool. I don't know if I've got it all the chat. Uh, BRB. Thank you, better. Okay, uh, record, uh, before was 106. Okay, I thought it was only on Tri train level five, but anyway, uh, gifted a sub to Zeke. Cool, cool, cool, cool. Uh, just a bit slow. I know, I know. That's, that's what happens. So anyway, January 2025 was the record for the biggest hype train at level uh, 111, 55%. Thank you, Supersonic. I have no idea where to go look at those things. There are so many people much more gifted than I am, much more talented than I am. Um, I have no expectations to ever, ever be partner. Would it be cool? Oh, you bet it would be cool. Um, yeah, let me reboot your phone. Okay, we'll be here. We'll be here until two hours from now, roughly. Thank you for the Bitties. Like I said, as long as there's Bitties, I'm just going to keep talking about the Bitties. So anyway, you can keep me focused on that. Troy the Minion, hello, hello, welcome in, welcome in. So um, I am Flat Cap Dapper Pastor. If you have met me IRL, if you let me in person, that is fun. I will be in Orlando the 16th through the 21st. So if you are in the Orlando area, you can DM me, and you can let me know. Uh, two hours, but that's barely enough time to cover a rabbit trail. I know. If you're on my other stream, we read the Bible over there on my other channel. On this channel, I'm mostly doing podcasts where I'm talking to different missionaries about what they are doing in ministry. That you may not call yourself a missionary, but you are bringing the gospel to a place that the world and many people there are, you know, in darkness. So uh, Troy the Minion 32, you know who I am? Absolutely. Maybe I don't know. I get so confused. What is maybe? I think I don't know. Was that clear enough? Was that clear enough? So um, yes, want to be part of the Blessing Boat? Yes. So I, I was, I, that's where I was at. Thank you, Warrior. Uh, I joined the Blessing Boat three years ago. I started out uh, in Twitch, not because I was looking to play video games, not because I was thinking that I wanted to watch people play video games. I came over to start watching Twitch because I had a friend who was a pastor uh, in person, and he was doing VR Ministry, and he was over here on Twitch. And then one of the first people that he introduced me to, uh, please check my messages. Okay, well, I, I got to go find a Twitch and open it up and and do all of that. I know, I know. Um, it doesn't show me that. Oh, that's the wrong account. That's why it's not going to show me. But I need that one up. So let me find this. Did I block messages from TCD on purpose? They're, I don't know how they're blocked. I don't have anything set up to block messages. I'm not, I don't know what you mean. Blocked messages? I don't know whether there's any blocked messages. Um, if you're trying to message TCD, uh, I don't have access to that anyway. It's not set up at my account to, I don't think see any messages there. So it may be set up that way. I will look into it if that's what you mean. So that you couldn't whisper TCD? Okay, I see what you're talking about. Um, but it's like I said, I'll get back to that. Uh, Troy the Minion, you're at work. All right, where am I? I'm just filling noise while I, I see if there's anything else. Thank you to the sponsors and the volunteers. You are loved and appreciated. Absolutely, absolutely. Uh, and I know that you would have had Warrior talking all about that, um, about, oh, uh, Dora X or Games XP in Dora, uh, definitely, and Wordy Girl, Wordy Girl also. Um, uh, a sponsor of some gift, which I didn't stay long enough to hear the gift, and we rid it out, or there was it was looping or something. So I don't know what the gifts are. So if you want to put those gifts in the chat, anybody that was here before you came in or anybody that's coming in later, so that we know what those are, Warrior, that'd be great if you want to pin that. Uh, it'll be up there for a bit. Uh, the gift is a mystery. Oh, okay, okay. So we don't know the gift yet. Oh, that's why I missed it. So all right, we're 18 minutes in, and I haven't said anything yet of any consequence. Isn't that fun? Isn't that fun? Uh, I'll tell you what, this, this is why I, I told you my friend brought me in uh, to watching this. He introduced me to a few people. I started searching around trying to find other people because at the time I was unemployed and had nothing else to do. So I sat around trying to do that for a couple of months and finding people. I think I found Pastor Duon pretty quickly. Uh, Ukulele for Worship, one of the first people I found. Christian Ninja. Um, I think I found a game or X, yeah, XP Church. Uh, God Squad Church. At the time, I found...

: Lux Digital Church. Uh, I found a bunch of those people early on and I found Warrior of Light and Blessing Boat somewhere in those early days. And um, started to get to know people, started to hang out in the community, and people just started saying, "Hey Mel, welcome." That's what everybody said.

: No, everyone was saying, "Uh, when are you going to stream?" In fact, my friend kept telling everybody to follow me because I was going to stream, and I kept saying no, I'm not. Why? Why would I want to do that? Why would I want to do that at all? Um, but anyway, I ended up working at a church and I decided to do my sermon prep on Fridays. And everyone was enjoying it. I'm like, I'm not playing games. I'm sitting here reading the Bible. And so as I did that, people started to hang out in my community. It started to grow. And we got to the first of the year. I'm doing it once a week, and they're like, "Do you have a plan for reading in the Bible in a year?" And the church I was working at also was asking that I go. I do. So let's go try that. So a month after uh starting, and I actually started like ten days late uh into the year because I was on vacation the first week of the year. So I think I started on the tenth or the eleventh of the year, you know, ten days behind on reading through the Bible in a year uh on stream. And uh, we kicked it off. And uh, the next month I was on Blessing Boat. And then within a month I was affiliate, and it was fantastic. And just had so much fun watching what God is up to, what God is doing in digital spaces, uh, learning about other people, figuring out how do we experiment with things, how do we try things.

: So the whole thing here with me coming over on the Church Digital's uh site, what we've used it before is for podcast. We use it for podcast of bringing people in. We would record the podcast here. We would upload it to YouTube. We'd put it on uh Spotify, Apple, wherever you find your podcast, and you could listen to the regular podcast episodes. And we did a whole series on Gamers a couple of years ago. We did that here. And then it's been used to just do our regular podcast and bring the guest in. And it really wasn't targeted towards gamers in the gaming community. And as we've been evolving with the Church Digital, the Church Digital, oh, we aren't even a year into this. Okay, so this is the Church Digital version three point zero. Actually, we're probably moving into version three point two uh if I'm honest. But we are a digital missionary sending agency. And so what that means is we're trying to help people that are already a missionary figure out how to do things digitally. We're trying to figure out people that are called to ministry in digital spaces figure out how to do that. So that's what we've been doing. I've been working with them for going on three years now as well. Because as I started finding out, uh, finding all of those other people together, I got a group of pastors together and started pastor groups. And when I brought the pastor groups together, several of them said, "Hey, you need to go meet Jeff Reed over at the Church Digital." Just follow. Hey, thank you for the follow. I'll get caught up chat in just a second. Let me finish the story about getting connected to the Church Digital, and I'll get caught up on chat.

: So uh, I think my friend who brought me on knew of them to begin with said, "You need to go have a conversation with Jeff," and I did. And I, I don't know what I need to have a conversation with Jeff for. Um, I'm not doing what he's doing. I'm over here in this gaming thing, and I don't know. And then Mark Lutz from Lux Digital Church uh said, "Hey, you need to have a conversation with Jeff," and I went over there. And I'm like, "Okay, maybe I could see some connection over here." And at that time they were focused on uh making disciples and planting churches. And I'm like, "I'm not planning on planting a church." They had a course on "Plant Your Digital Church in Nine Weeks," and I'm like, "Yeah, that's pretty quick." Uh, and maybe I could do that, but I'm not planning on doing that. But you know what I could do? I could take all those things that they're teaching, and I could apply them to what I'm doing in digital space. So why don't I take the course? And a friend of mine actually challenged me. And who knew that uh, you know, back in seminary I thought I was going to plant a digital church and said, "Hey, maybe maybe this is God bringing that back to you, uh, redeeming the vision he had given to you years ago so that you can plant a digital church." And I went, "Okay, I'll be open to it." And I went through the course. And then after that, I just started hanging out all the time uh with the Church Digital, uh, hanging out with them, learning from them, binging the podcast. By the way, I'm up to three times speed on my podcast for most of them. Uh, I'm I'm just like, "Give me more, give me more so I can listen to three podcasts in the span of one." Uh, by the way, I'm not offended at all if you're listening to me at double speed, triple speed, whatever. If you can listen to me at that speed, by all means listen to me at that speed. I know unless I'm excited, I usually talk a little bit slow. So yeah, Pastor Dewing three times speed? That's impressive. Well, I've worked my way up there. I started at one and a half, got my way up to two, and I keep creeping up. And in the last six months I've hit three speed with exception of a couple of podcasts where there are people that talk really fast, and they're talking at high speed, and they're talking at high pitch voice, and I have to slow those down. Can barely get to two.

: All right, let me get caught up on chat, which by the way, I feel like I'm just monologuing here. Uh, but I I appreciate you getting doing some clips. That's going to be much appreciated to be able to use for Blessing Boat and for me to be able to use for the Church Digital. Thank you. Um, Mom Boss Lady, you have a mystery IRL. By the way, the Church Digital, we're trying to switch the language of IRL from IRL to in-person. And the reason our thinking is behind that is when we say IRL, "in real life," it diminishes digital as not real. And my relationships with all of you here who already know me, with Miss Jelly Beans, with Warrior of Light, with Pastor Dewing, with Mom Boss Lady, they're all absolutely real relationships. And this is real ministry, and it is real community. So we're just trying to nudge in that direction. We are not going to change it globally, but we figure those of us who are doing digital ministry, if we start adopting the common language around being in person, uh, it might add more validity to those in the church who don't believe that uh online ministry is real ministry. Anyway, just taking an opportunity to say that, not picking on you in any capacity, Mom Boss Lady. Um, so my best friend that lived in Tennessee who is now with the Lord, going on two years, her daughter got a hold of me wanting my address, told me it's a mystery why she wanted my address. Ooh, I wonder if there's something uh that she found that she thought would bless you, or maybe there was something left to you and they finally settled the estate and they're able to send it to you. But Mom Boss Lady, ooh, I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued. That sounds awesome.

: Some uh, Warrior, it took off in a huge way. Raiding the wave helped, yes. Boost with the boat, lol. Uh, I'm excited to see uh, yeah, what she has planned, elol. Absolutely. Um, you'd love to get involved with Blessing Boat, but the OBS is cooperating with me to stream. Number one reason it may not be God's will in that I can't stream with your husband's mouth in the background. Well, Mom Boss Lady, not everyone is called to be a streamer the same way not everyone is called to be a pastor and be on stage. We need all of the body of Christ. We need mods in the chat. We need the tech people. Oh my goodness, I love you tech people. I have so many people that have blessed me with with digital songs uh with other things for my channel in different ways, just sharing information, helping me to grow and learn. It's been so fantastic. I have a whole community of people I can ask because I make a lot of tech mistakes. Just go back and look at all the podcast videos I've made so far here. Two, and they've had problems. Go watch me in VR Chat when I go over there. Tech problems, let me tell you. So um, yeah, Ike, been here, you can't listen to you at that speed when you're live, only when you're on recording. Oh, absolutely, absolutely. Live, live is different. I am fully engaged when it's live, but if I'm listening to it and I know it's a podcast and I can't interact, I'll just give it to me as fast as I can take it.

: Uh, planting a digital church, really? Yes, yes. Every person has a role. Supersonic, I couldn't say it. I could not say it better. Some are the toe is just as important as as the finger. You'd be dead in the water with tech. You have you have so many people. Um, I don't have it subscribed yet, yeah, Iken here, to chapter verse. Uh, but good reminder there. I need to do that. Uh, instead, speaking the truth in love. Oh, those that know, know. I have a problem with that translation, and we just went over that not too long ago. Um, okay, you can go find a VOD of me talking about this. There is no verb there for speaking in the Greek. So so just letting you know, there is no verb for speaking in the Greek there. So we're getting a Greek lesson here. I didn't know I was going to be doing some Bible study when I was here. We got two hours, so I can fill all this time and go whatever direction we end up. This is so much fun. No agenda, but there is an agenda, and rabbit trails everywhere. Uh, Luces, I don't know how you're keeping track of these. Um, and we're not going to look it up. We're not going to go, we're not going to go look it up. I'm telling you. So it is truth in in love. The verb is truthing. Now we don't have English word for truthing, but you will know exactly what it means when I give you this example. Adulting. Adulting has only recently become a word. It has been a noun to be an adult. What does it mean to be adulting? To be adulting, it means to do the things adults do. So truthing in love is how you live out love. It is not about you opening your mouth and telling people they're wrong. If you're opening your mouth and telling people they're wrong, you ain't speaking the truth in love, let alone truthing in love. You got it wrong. So anyway, yeah, Iken, been here. Now that I have that said, I will read it from my uh version or slightly adjusted. Instead, truthing in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the head, that is Christ. From him, the whole body joined and held together by every supporting ligament grows and builds itself up in love as each part does its work. So we are living together. We are truthing in love. And the truthing in love is what builds us up in love, not me telling you how you got it wrong, not me speaking that I have it right. So that's what we get wrong. We misapply. Speaking, the verb isn't even in there. There is meaning, yes, I can in gentleness and in kindness speak to help you understand, and I can bring the truth, but it's more about the demonstration of my life and living it out, just like adulting. Okay, there be more Bible lessons, I'm sure as we go along. I can't help it. Mom Boss Lady, maybe it could be could be her and her children that, oh, maybe they're coming for a visit. That be super cool uh that you have close relationship with the kids. Call me Aunt Scooby. Oh, that's a fun name. Aunt Scooby. Uh, they could be coming for a visit, or she might be sending the tin that she got to put some of Tracy's ashes in for me. Yeah, I was guessing it might might be that. What do you mean, Supersonic? Say by grace, ESV. Uh, what do you use? KJV? Uh, I use Net Bible. Alice in the Palace. Hey, everybody, give what we need a shout out for Alice in the, I don't know if the shout outs work or not. I'm going to try anyway. I'm going to try anyway. Go follow Alice. Alice was my first follower. So when my friend said, "Hey, you need to go follow Flat Cab Dapper Pastor. He's going to stream," and I'm like, "No, I'm not."

: Alice followed me. She believed him, and six months later when I started streaming, she had been a follower for six months. Yeah, I have 90 minutes left. Yes, yes, yeah, I've been here. Yeah, it's so fun. Uh, I also picked that up from um my friend. He did that all the time.

: Pastor Brock, it's like, yeah, that's a good little ditty to fill air, dead air with. We don't have any English word for that. Unstable internet. Uh, don't do adulting. That's way too hard. Yes, truth thing, like living out the truth. Absolutely, Pastor Du. Uh, yeah, I can hear pretty much every English translation.

: I see says speaking the truth in love. Because of English limitations, I will keep your eye out for truth and translations. I think there is a chance of it becoming that way in the next ten to fifteen, maybe twenty years. At least I see it in footnotes where they are now identifying, saying the word speak is not actually in the text. It's been added for clarity. Well, I disagree. It's been added for clarity. It has been added with the implication then that's all I need to do is open my mouth and tell you you're wrong and we got it all cleared up. Uh, I don't know that was the original intent, but that's how it's used. So Alice, well, that's not a word. Haha. I was expecting something German or Welsh. Oh, maybe there is a German or Welsh that we could steal and bring over. I don't know. Warrior, live life every day as Christ is in you, not just for Sabbath or Sunday. Awesome. Hey, Zeke, 365, you use the Voice Bible? Oh, I'm not familiar with that. Do not know that one. Um, Alice, by the time you started, you had 50 followers already? I, I might have. I think you're right, Alice. I was, I was close to probably having that many followers by the time I started. Um, and I know like people were asking me, like they were looking at like my first stream. I had an average of eight viewers on my first stream. Like, how did you do that? Well, because I picked the time to stream after someone that I already knew. I picked a time to stream right after Ukulele for Worship got done. I'm like, I'm going to go stream after her. And I was one day a week. So for a couple of weeks, she she raided me every week. So that crowd came over. Uh, I started before they came in. Some left after they came in. I averaged with an eight. Started with an average of eight. Uh, I don't know what my average is now over there, but anyway. Oh, it's on Bible Gateway. Okay, which I do use often. I do use often. Yeah, I thought it was a great thing too, is like get connected with with other people, get invested in the community, have people that know who you are, that you can share that you are intending to be a streamer. Heels just followed. Oh, I can't see the alerts. I, I don't know where. Let me find the alerts. Let me do this. Will that fix it so I can see the alerts? Maybe we'll see next time. Maybe they'll go over my face. Uh, that's where I followed you from. Yeah, yeah. Ike, been here. So before we got on the rabbit trail, I was trying to share Ephesians 4:16 and the end of the trail on verse 15, 16. Uh, the the lead in. Did you get to verse 16 or no? Not about average followers, but the quality of the friendship. Totally, Alice. Totally. What I'm just saying is is uh from that start with all of those people, it was I had that many people encouraging because of the relationships. I thought I read all of it. Um, there's 15 and 16. So the every piece. Uh, all things growing up into himself who is the head, that is Christ. From him, the whole body joined and held together by every supporting ligament grows and builds itself up in love as each part does its work. So mods, like, yeah, I've been here. Like, uh, you. Well, Alice, I think you mod in some places. Um, Warrior of Light modding in here. Here, Miss Jelly Beans modding uh in various places. All of you engaging in the chat doing what you're doing. Uh, those of us who are hanging out in other places encouraging one another. All, all of those are doing our part. Engaging in the chat, engaging in what's going on, sharing what's going on. Even if all you ever do is promote Blessing Boat to other people. If all you ever do is promote the Church Digital to other people. If all you do is bring other people, people to say, hey, here's somebody that I know that I think you would love. You're doing your part. You're doing your part. And we are all built up together when we are in relationship, in unity, and doing all those things. Uh, Warrior, took. Yeah, that's right. Warrior, and if you want to go back and watch the podcast, Warrior talks about this, that the taking for him nine months to become affiliate is the thing that birthed the Blessing Boat. Isn't that awesome? Uh, before I had three people viewing on each stream. Yeah. Uh, Super Sonic, I mod for Donnie and Bag. Awesome. And Miss Jelly Beans grabbing the Jelly Bean love. Can I get a shout out because I stream too? I absolutely, Troy the Minion. Absolutely. I don't have any command set up. Yeah, what do you stream? Oh, talk about T2. Thank you, thank you, Troy the Minion. Thank you, Troy. So uh, let's do that. You know what? Yeah, let's do that. Let's talk about that first. So uh, I was talking about the Church Digital. Let me switch scenes here so I can show you that. So the Church Digital, we are a digital missionary sending agency. So wherever you are, whatever platform you're on, I happen to be leading a gaming Outpost. I'll talk about that later. So whatever, doing all of you who are here on Twitch, this is your regular place to hang out. Thank you for being here. If you're watching the VODs later that someone shared with you, thank you for being here. It is an encouragement to have so many people hanging out and watching right now. I don't know what the max numbered Blessing Boat has had. I know early days they had some good numbers and that, and I don't really frankly care. It's about the relationships, the ongoing. And one of the things that we do know as well, uh, let scroll to the top here, cuz I'll just read it because there we go. Luke 10:2. The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the Harvest to send out workers into the Harvest. So Luke 10, and I know we usually just put two, but we put it as Luke 10:02. So in a digital first world, this call is more urgent than ever. Digital missionaries are pioneering gospel conversations in places like Discord, VR Chat, and gaming communities, including Blessing Boat. But their efforts need to be bathed in prayer. So at 10:02, whatever your time zone is. So you know what? I think I'm going to do. Let's do this at the top of the hour. It won't be 10:02 for me, but it'll be 10:02 for someone else. So we'll do that at the top of the hour. We will pray. But we've got you can come over here. So it is the Church.Digital. Pray. The Church.Digital slash pray. Let me put that in the Discord. Not the Discord. In the chat. Where's my brain at? So we're praying at 10:02. So if you're streaming on Twitch, stop and pray. You're exploring VR Chat, stop and pray. Playing Call of Duty, stop and pray. Mid meeting or at a coffee break, stop and pray. Driving, pray with your eyes open. And please do not stop. I think I would have put that part in there anyway. So this is, this is about lifting up the whole of bringing Jesus into dark places, into digital spaces, into spaces that frankly the church has not thought it was worth going to. The church has not thought there are people there uh that we need to go and reach. The church in some ways, and I'm not picking on the church, I've been a part of it, has thought if we build it, they will come. And so we haven't thought to go to those places. We said those places aren't safe, so we won't go there. But God has been calling. God has been lifting up many of you. Are my friends who I've seen. We've got logos galore here. You can pick and download any of these. You can share these. Uh, wallpaper. We can stop to pray. We can do this. We've got a countdown clock. We got a prayer clock here that will go. We can do that later. I mean, it's got all kinds of stuff for you over here. And so if you're going to do this, you want to share about it, use the hashtag uh for that. So there's the uh the we're praying for all of you and joining you in that. Let me get caught up on chat and I'll move into the next thing. I mean, because we've got time. We've got time. Um, yeah, and Troy, I've met Troy. Uh, chatted with him a few times. Troy, so good to see you here. And thank you for throwing in the Luke 10:02 there. Uh, yeah, I've been here. He told them. Oh, you're putting it in there. Thank you. I had, I had that one. I had that one. Um, VR Chat. Absolutely. VR Chat. Nice. Yes, Troy is Troy. Has been around a few places. We're getting to know each other on this. The numbers are pretty substantial today. Yeah, I'm loving it. I'm loving it. Yes, that is supposed to be on our site and has been our site until recently. Uh, Warrior, you're talking about praying and and for praying for the Harvest. Uh, this, this is me talking, not talking on behalf of the Church Digital. Just take our stuff. Take our stuff. Spread it around. Hashtag 10:02. Hashtag 1002. And you know, put your commands in there. Exclamation point 10, 1002. Um, and uh, and emotes. Well, the emotes are mine. I made the emotes, but I I'll pass them out if you want them. DM me. I'll give you the emotes. Uh, you can have people join too. Yes, yeah, there's a sign up here. Join the prayer team. That is just so that we can know that someone is praying. Oh, thank you for reminding me of that. Our goal is to have every single time zone on the planet with someone praying by the end of the year. Now we'd ideally love that sooner, but we realize it's going to take a while in some time zones to have someone who's praying. But we want someone praying in every time zone at 10:02 all the way around the clock so that at 10:02 simultaneously around the globe, whenever 10:02 hits, there is someone praying. So I think that's pretty fantastic goal to get by the end of the year. Uh, well, while driving and praying, yes, please keep your eyes open. And exactly. It must be the movement of God. Uh, yes, 10:02 on our shirts. Oh, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool. Um, let me scroll down. Do we have, let me go to the merch shop, cuz I think we may have 10:02 on some merch. I don't remember. Yeah, we've got 10:02 on some merch. You can get a sticker. You can get a t-shirt uh with 10:02 on it. This, this is my favorite. I've got this t-shirt that has on Discord as it is in heaven. Uh, I think that's pretty fantastic. So here's our merch store. I won't really plug in the merch store, but just since you were talking about it, I'm like, oh yeah, we have that. We have that. You can get a magnet here too. Um, or a sticker. I might need to get that sticker anyway. Talk about April 2. I'm getting there, Troy. I'm getting there. I love you, Troy. Thank you for just like coaxing me along and you know, all this stuff. So I'm getting there. Uh, how God is working with you and us. I know, I know, I know. Oh, by the way, when I get there, Warrior, we'll plug Blessing Boat again for April 2nd. Um, how do you sign up for it? Well, here you just click the join the prayer, and you put your name, your country, your email. That's it. The email is just so we can communicate more information. The country is so we know that we have someone around the globe that has something. We're we're trusting the time zones to work within some countries. The US has four. Then you can count outside the contiguous US, and we have more. Uh, but we're not worried about that. We're just trying to know that you are signed up for prayer. Just wear a broken clock and set it to 10:02. You know what? Um, I think I want to get one of those Flavor Flav clocks and just set it at 10:02 with no batteries. That'd be, that'd be right on. Yeah, boy. I can't do it right. Yeah, boy. Be how low can you go? Oh, sorry. Uh, driving while praying, not a Jesus Take the Wheel moment. No, certainly, certainly not. Skirt Savage, just join the prayer team from your time. And Skirt Savage, that's awesome. I know we have others uh in your continent that are praying as well. I don't like to uh call anyone out, Alice. I hate merch because no one ever designs some nice Maxi summer dresses merch. Y'all.

: I would love some flat cap merch too. I'm not getting any of that. Uh, Warrior, you signed up and you guys gave me a breakout room. Thank you so much. Oh yeah, the um, yeah, we'll get there. Okay, so we're caught up on the 1002. Uh, we are a digital missionary sending agency. Where should you start? This is it. So this is missionary digital missionary, digital. Um, why will it not copy? There we go. Put that in the chat so you can go to the page that I'm talking about. I am super, super, super, super super excited. If you can't tell, I am the hype man for the conference. I'm not a speaker at the conference. I will be hosting in VR. Anybody that is going to brave it in VR, you'll get to see me probably messing it up like I often do when I preach in VR. Something goes wrong with my tech. Okay, before I say every, it always goes wrong. And let me just say it will eventually not go wrong. So April 2nd, April 2nd. Uh, because it's not on April 1st because digital ministry is no joke. Digital ministry is no joke. You are taking the day off to be there, Warrior. I appreciate that so much. Uh, it is all my focus is going to be for that day. I think we are doing uh a prayer for the event before that. You, I will share that on Discord for everyone to know. So if you are in the Discord community, by the way, I can't share a link for the Discord, you'll have to go to uh the church.digital. I'll share that later. Scroll to the bottom of the page and that's where you can click the button to join the Discord or the WhatsApp community. So anyway, digital missionary conference, equipping and mobilizing those that are in digital ministry. So here's, I love the little ticket that that moves. I think that's fun. April 2nd, 11:00 a.m. EST, live, not pre-recorded with the exception of one person that I know of. Live speakers. A lot of digital conferences I've seen have pre-recorded and I'm like, why am I there? Just send me the videos. I can watch them on triple speed. Why are you making me sit through this? I could be listening faster. I can't engage with the host. I can't, you know, have any feedback. I like you. You're taking up my time. Okay, just give me the goods. But here, no, no, no, live. Let me go to breakout sessions. We'll look at those in a minute. There'll be breakout sessions. There'll be some Q&A possibilities. I don't know that every host is or every speaker is going to have Q&A. There will be some. The breakout sessions you will not get if you're not there live, but it will be online and in VR. So two stages. You ever go to a concert that has multiple stages? You have to decide which one are you going to spend your time at? Do I go to stage A? Do I go to stage B? Do I go to stage one, stage two? I don't know which way they're numbered. Uh, I never pay attention. But anyway, they're both going to be great. You'll get the VODs later, so don't worry about that. Pick, but when we get to the breakouts, there will be no videos of the breakouts because it's live and in person in conversation. And see you pick what's best for you. Okay, so what does it cost? It costs absolutely nothing. It is a zero for you cost. That is uh, I'm turning my heat around. My legs are getting a little cold. Uh, it costs you nothing. Why? Because we are trusting sponsors. We are selling the vision to sponsors to cover this because we know that when you are doing something in ministry, when you are starting and you are a pioneer, you do not have the resources to be able to do these. Uh, free. 95. Uh, sponsors, yes, thank you, sponsors. Uh, you're so excited, Sumi Beats. Hey, I didn't see you come in, Sumi Beats. Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome. You're a salesman. There are just $9. I will be live streaming tonight for one of the groups that you are part of, Troy. That's awesome. Oh, that's on Wednesday. If we sign up, can we get the VODs? Yes, I'm going to get to that just a second. Ly, um, so um, it's totally free, but excuse me, you will not, you will get the VODs if you sign up whether you attend or not. I need to grab a cough drop. I'm gonna just have a coughing fit here a minute. Give me a second. One of those things that um happens when you talk for, you know, almost an hour straight with very little break. Your throat gets dry. No amount of taking a drink is going to cover that, but a little soothing cough drop will just help give it a coating. I have no cough, but it's a little dry. Remember those commercials? Just $9.99. Repeat it over and over. $9.99. Five easy payments of $9.99. Ten easy payments of $9.99. Not only do that, but join now and you'll also get all the VODs that you can have. Maybe I should just start over and try to make this a legit one. Uh, can you make some tea, please, Alice? I've got, I've got some tea. I've got some tea. Now, now I already drank my pot of English breakfast for today. Now, now I'm drinking Earl Grey. Now I'm drinking Earl Grey. So but yes, I do. I always drink hot tea. It is, it is helpful. Yeah, I been drinking it, but if you talk for so long, you still wear off the lining of your voice chords there. How dare you drink breakfast? Okay, so the sponsorship is covered, so there's no cost. We realize, and our goal, this is our first one, we feel really ambitious in our goal. We're hoping for a thousand people to sign up. Now we know that we have lots of friends globally. We have friends that are down under. We have friends that are in Asia. This is going to be the middle of the night for them. They are not going to be able to get up and watch this. So anyone that signs up, you will be able to watch all the VODs. We will give them to you to be able to watch. You don't sign up, they're not going on YouTube. They're not going on any of our places. These are exclusive to those that sign up. So you need to sign up. The cost is nothing. So even if you can't make it, or you're going right now, I don't think I can make it, but the day comes and you go, oh, I could go and I wish I would have signed up, you'll still be able to sign up all the way up until it is started. You'll be able to sign up. You'll be able to join us uh here and see all of those. Breakfast tea is good. Normal tea, but uh, you are plagued with a cup of Earl Grey today. I like both. I like both uh a whole lot, and that is that is where I'm at. But I know your preference, Alice. By the way, Alice and I have gone for tea before. Alice and I have gone for tea. There's no photo evidence uh except maybe I took a picture of the tea, but uh, the meet the fam link is not working for you, Edgewax. Okay, which one did you try? Down here at the bottom? I'm scrolling all the way. There's a lot there. Um, you must be on a different page. Okay, is that at the bottom here? Uh, join the fam. This one is WhatsApp and this one is Discord. Let me click on it. See what happens. Let's see if I can work around this. See if that works. It was on the about link on your Twitch channel. Oh, okay. Okay, I will have to look at the Twitch channel and check on that. Thank you for letting me know that. Um, I think that will work there. I just copied the URL at the top. Uh, let me know if that works for you. Okay, back, back to our uninterrupted missionary conference. Okay, so yes, if you sign up, you get all the videos. You'll miss out on all the discussions that happen in breakouts. We're not going to video record those because we want you to be open and honest about anything going on. Uh, we might have people joining from places around the globe. We do have friends that are in the persecuted church regions of the Middle East and India. We want them to be able to be safe. We don't want to be able to post any of those things, and so we're just not going to post any of the videos afterwards of the conversation breakout session. So you'll get, you'll get all of the stuff that goes on in the main sessions. Have you ever been in spatial with that many people at once? Um, the thousand people will probably not end up in spatial, Alice. Um, we're figuring the bulk of them are going to be on the other side, which will be Alter Live, and I believe that they have had 500 plus people when they've done it before, or even if, oh, you know, it's more than that. If it's not 50/50 uh and I'm trying to think of um Tall Skinny Kiwi is our guy that has done stuff in um spatial. So I don't know the answer to that question, Alice, but he's, he has done many things over there. He did do the LAN conference. So okay, still continuing. So the church isn't just a building. The mission field isn't just physical. And digital is more than a tool. It's a mission field. We believe this strongly. You may have church leaders who are like, no, it's not, it's not, it's not uh actual mission field. Um, digital missionary conference is an international digital gathering for those who refuse to be limited by walls. Millions of users are searching for hope, yet many churches just don't know how to engage them. Whether you're a pastor, content creator, or a digital missionary, this is your call to help take the gospel into digital spaces. Uh, it's improved a bit since uh it was first about, but all your oldest spatial worlds are broken. Haha. Well, I know. Yeah, I'm not the one doing that. I don't know how to build, Alice. I know you know how to build, so you know a a whole lot about that. That so Alice, if you're interested, I will check and see if we need some people to go in and test run in the world and uh I can get your name added to whoever's doing test run stuff if you, if you're interested, Alice. Let me know. You can just DM me in case I don't miss it. If I miss it here, you need to think about it. Okay, so there's two conferences. One will be the broadcast, Alter Live. You can watch it on your phone. You can watch it on your computer. You'll get the keynotes from the top of digital leaders, interactive breakout sessions, Q&As, and networking opportunities in VR. It will be in Spatial. Uh, as Alice was already alluding to, exclusive sessions for VR ministers, SimCast keynotes from broadcast stage, deep dive discussions on VR evangelism and discipleship. So recordings of the keynotes on demand, available globally, only to those who register. So you can't make it, you can only make half of it. That's, that's what you do. So first, last name, email, email. Why? So that we can communicate and connect with you. Phone, uh, also might be a way because if you're in WhatsApp or other places around the world, uh, your country and your preferred platform. Um, and it's free. So keynote speakers, breakout sessions, VR. Who's going to be here? David Nelms, founder of the Timothy Initiative. So he's going to talk about starting and sustaining a movement. I think a movement has already started with Blessing Boat and others in in Twitch. There is a movement of Christians uh who have seen that God has equipped them and put them in a place to reach people uh online and and they're trying to do that, whether that is gaming in VR, whether that's gaming on Twitch, whether that is inside the game. Yeah, it's it's awesome. Uh, no, okay, no, no, no, we are not going to dox us if you fill out the fill out the info for you. No, no, I'm not. We're not. That is only for internal communication. Uh, thank you, Fantomas, for asking. It's for internal communication so that we can validate that you're genuinely a person, and when we go to the sponsors and say how many people showed up, we're able to say we had 850 and we had, well, actually, already I know this. We have already 35 countries signed up. We already have 35 countries that are signed up for the conference right now. 35 countries. And you know, we are, I don't know how many days out or three weeks out, whatever it is, maybe four weeks. I don't know. I cannot, I can never do the math on that. But anyway, um, yeah, we will not dox you. We will not share your stuff. We will not sell your stuff. The only people that will have access to your stuff is us, the church digital. So okay, uh, Jay Kanda also going to be there. I like this. This is interesting. So I, I have it in dark mode, but if I put my cursor over that, it, it puts it into color. Uh, and thanks for the question, Fantomas, because yeah, I don't want to dox anybody. I don't want to dox anybody. I mean, unless it's

: You know, Alice in the palace, and your name is Alice. I didn't dox you, you know? You gave me that contextualizing for engaging with international cultures. This is fascinating to me that he's going to be talking about international cultures, and that's one of the things that we are thinking through a lot. What I've grown up with, what I've understood in an American culture, does not—yeah, put a fake name in, sir. Mythos, yes. Go. Yeah, you know what? You are free to put a fake name. I do. What do—what makes you feel safe? Okay, I'm not going to care. You will need to have a valid email, I believe. I don't know which ones have—there's probably one or the other. The email or the phone probably has a required thing there to legitimize you, but I don't know if they both are. Jay Kanda is the online pastor of Saddleback Church. So if you don't know, Saddleback is a—the phone is required, Phantom. Okay, okay. Which that identifies a singular person. So which also, you can get digital phone numbers too. Oh, Troy, it's both. Okay. Um, and maybe country makes a difference. I don't know. So Jay Kanda with Saddleback, he's been doing online for quite some time, exploring things. They just did VR in the last last year. They they started a VR campus. So they're one of the churches that does believe you can do ministry there. They do believe you can connect with people there. Um, I'll show you that in just a minute when uh I finish with all this. I'm glad I got—oh, you know what? I told you I was going to pray at uh the next 02. It is the next 02. Let's go back to that. See, I can go down. If you've not been around with me before and watching me stream, I have—I have—I don't know with this canny ability is that the way to say it? You know, like Spider Sense or something? Uh, I have this ability to rabbit trail back to exactly where I left off. Saddleback is always trying new things. Ley, yeah, and that's what I appreciate about them, even if I disagree with stuff. They're willing to try and see if it works. Probably so, Jeff could force you to join the WhatsApp group. I'm going to say if you're in—if you're watching me here on Twitch, join the Discord and then join the uh Outpost uh that is within the Discord. It's the gaming Outpost. Yeah. Uh, yes, Pacific time. Uh, you've never tried WhatsApp? You know what? If you've never tried WhatsApp, you don't need to go over there. Just join the Discord. We we we created the WhatsApp for Internationals because a lot of what Internationals are not on Discord. Discord is um uh data heavy and it's difficult in many places to connect. WhatsApp is lot less data heavy. Uh, but if you've not been on WhatsApp, there's no need to go join that. Just join me in the Discord. Community Warrior of Truths just followed. Hey, hey, thank you, thank you, thank you. I need to move the alerts on this page up there. We go. Warrior of Truth, thank you, friend. Okay, so 10:02, so we're gonna pray. I'm gonna start the clock here. We already talked about it earlier. Where is the clock? I thought there—there it is. Prayer clock. All right. God, we are just praying for workers for the harvest. I'm think that's going to be a little loud. Me turn it down. Okay, me start it over again. Nope. Click, click, it off. I'll start over. There we go. God, we are praying for workers for the harvest. We know the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. We thank you for ministries like Blessing Boat who are helping to equip and empower Christian content creators who are trying to help bring in the harvest by being a voice in the darkness, by being a shining light in the darkness, by being salt and light to people who need hope, who are far away from you or have been hurt. Uh, whatever their circumstance, whatever their place is, God, we're praying for more and more. We thank you for Blessing Boat to be able to help people to make affiliate so that they can bring the good news of the kingdom. We're praying for more and more people to feel that call to be equipped and to be sent out. For all those who have, we want to help equip them. We want to help mobilize them. We want to help connect them. We want your blessing upon them. So all those who consider themselves a digital missionary or they're just supporting digital missions, God, we pray. We ask all these things in Jesus' name. Like uh, North Hill Live says, 'cause you done told us to. So God, we pray all this in Jesus' name. Amen.

: All right, looks like it looped there again. I think there was a thing on the bottom of pray for the harvest and for missionaries. I'm not really used that before. I just kind of like pray, but I wanted to show you that since we were here. Oh, the hashtag—sorry, I was wrong. It's not just 102. It's hash 102 digital prayer. I don't think I've used it yet. All right, all right, all right. So back to the other one. So J Kanda, which is pretty exciting. I've heard him talk a couple of times. He's been on the podcast a couple of times. He is quite innovative. He is quite on the pulse of things that are happening. Uh, here's Jeff. I was telling you about Jeff. Jeff, you need a new picture. Jeff has lost a bit of weight uh over the last year, and he'll be there. So he is the founder of the Church Digital. He read a magazine in middle school and and uh felt God's call that said, "Hey, I need to help plant a digital church." Well, that hasn't happened, but he's doing digital ministry, and he's helping a lot of other people do digital ministry. Uh, Alice, WhatsApp in your area is mostly used by bullies, dealers, and uh rogue landlords. Ooh, interesting. And those might be—some of those might be because they've come from other countries where they use that. Sounds like Christians need to be there too. Yes, yes, it does. El Michelle, um, founder of El Michelle Media. So an active listening in the or active listening in the metaverse. So El, I'm really excited about El Michelle. I don't know a whole lot about her, but I've heard lots of people talk about El Michelle. So she'll only be in the VR space is my understanding. She'll be in the VR space. Oh, uh, sorry, Alice. No, it's not 10. No, no. I—she's saying she time for me. It's actually was 102 for me, but let's see if it's one for me. Then it's noon Central. It is. So Pacific Coast Pacific would have been 10 o'clock. So we're praying for all those people out on the west coast in the US at 10:02. I just picked top of the hour up 02 to demonstrate it rather than do it earlier. Alice, that was it. Maybe you weren't here when I said I was going to do that. Okay. What's working in digital globally? I am really excited about Matt Nyman um who uh is doing global research for Lan Lan Movement. Uh, just had their Force Congress last year in South Korea. That's the reason we ended up in WhatsApp because we had people in our community we were planning to go to that, and right before we planned to go to that, we made the decision we are going to be in set of discipleship making organization. Uh, we are going to be a digital missionary sending agency because whether you are a church planter, whether you are a streamer, you can be a digital missionary now. You might end up planting a church from a missionary position. You might be working in a church, but everyone on some level is a missionary. And so we went there and we got into WhatsApp 'cause our community of international said, "Nobody's going to join Discord." Uh, and I I think it was day two through the congress—not conference, it's Congress—uh, of saying, "Hey, you can join the WhatsApp or the Discord," and people going, "What's Discord?" They just stopped saying you can join the Discord and just said join a WhatsApp group. Uh, but I'm in, I'm very excited to hear about what he is talking about, and I don't know all the details here, but within the Church Digital, we are helping them do some research globally in digital missions and ministries. Uh, hey, Tall Skinny, welcome in, my buddy. We had some questions here earlier. Alice was asking questions about Spatial and how many people we could actually hold in Spatial uh for the conference. Will it handle you know 500, a thousand people in there at once? And I have no idea. Have no idea. Uh, TS Skinny, Matthew's contribution to Lan really put digital ministry on the missions map. That's good for us all. Absolutely. That's why I'm really excited about listening to him. Uh, Min Art Acete, I do not know him at all. Uh, but he has connected with the Jesus Film Project. So if you don't know, the Jesus Film, this is an effort to be able to have the story of Jesus in a video be able to be shared uh and people can take it and download it uh all over the globe. So ministry opportunities in the metaverse. So um another aspect of going into—and I don't know exactly what they're all doing in the metaverse. I mean, I'm like, I know a lot of people, but I don't always know everybody. Uh, and Jasmine uh co-founder of Women in Blockchain Asia, Epic Homes, an endgame. Okay, engaging the Web 3 community as digital missionary. So this is one that will be a recording because I think it'll be like 3:00 a.m. when the conference starts for her. So she said uh here's when I'm available, and uh we said that's—or when I'm not available is what she said, and we said, "Oh, nice. That's exactly when exactly when we're planning the conference." So hers will be recorded. That's the only one I know that'll be recorded. Everyone else—hey, Super Son, a catch Jam uh Ly. Oh, you have some missionary friends who use that for the mission field in Kenya? Very cool, very cool. Uh, Josh Packard, author of Church Refugees. Uh, opportunities to reach and disciple de-church people digitally. And I think I run into a lot of the de-church people. I say, "Hey, I'm doing Bible," and they're curious. What was this guy doing Bible? And they come in and they're like, "You haven't been in church in a long time." I grew up in the church. I was hurt by the church or I left the church or I just don't know what to do with church. It's like, "Well, this is a safe place. I can hang out here. Oh, we're reading Bible. I'm cool with that." I understand. And there's plenty of people who are just curious altogether. So um, I love that people are thinking about people who are left behind by the church. And then my buddy Dr. John Harris uh, he started a Facebook community, Hearts, like his uh, for church refugees. Opportunities to reach and disciple de-church people digitally. So both of these are focused on people who have left the church. And we got breakout sessions. Um, Tall Skinny, Spatial can handle 50 at a time in one room and then generates automatically new instances of that room. So there is no limit, but the challenge is having live avatars speakers uh appear in each room rather than a video. However, the Spatial team can be encouraged to turn some dials and raise the limits. Ooh, very cool. Thank you, thank you. I have no idea what our turnout will be, but the thing is is we should know before the conference starts because people will be able to say my preference is for doing VR versus uh you know, or vice versa. All right, let's get out some breakout sessions. So missionary funding for a sustainable ministry. John Crawford, partnership with Rant.org. Oh, I'm I am learning so much. Thank you, Sumi. Like I, yeah, like I haven't sat and gone through, but yeah, I know, I know who it is. Yeah, those those that don't—yeah, I knew who you are, Stacy. I wasn't going to out you. Sumi Beats um, so John Crawford, I have been hanging out with this guy at conferences for the last two years, and as we were talking about this, this is one of the things that I want to say. Three years ago I had a vision for this idea, and when we started talking about this, I was super excited. So uh, any of you who are saying you're called to be a digital missionary and what you're doing in Twitch is what you're called to do, and and you're using Ko-fi or coffee, however you want to pronounce it, or you're using Patreon or—

: You're trying to get sponsorship and you're struggling and trying to figure that out and all of those things. John Crawford is a partnership with Reliant organization that you're going to be very, very interested in. So, um, I brought him over. Andy and I, Chino Mage, we knew of John because we've been running into him at conferences. I've been talking to him and he's like, "You know, let me know when you want to do raise support." I'm like, "Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if that's what God's calling me to do." But rather than me asking all of you who are in my stream to support me and fund all of my expenses for me being able to be a digital missionary, I go to my friends and family and churches that I have served with and I go to them and I invite them to invest in me in three different ways. Uh, I ask them to invest in me by partnering to pray for me. I ask them to be a financial partner with me at any level, and monthly giving, no matter how small, is far superior to one-time gift. So we do that, just like a Patreon supporter would be. Same concept there. And then you are a partner by you helping me to make other connections. So not only do you just give me a list of names—"Hey, here's some, you know, cold call these people"—no, no, no. You make an introduction to other people so that they say, "Hey, I have a friend who's doing this. Let me introduce you to them and let them share what they're doing. I think you'd be interested. Know what they're doing." And that's what Reliant.org helps ministries like the Church Digital be able to do. Missionaries who are like you. So I've got some other stuff so you'll learn about more of that at the conference. I don't need to dive into that unless we get time. I'm to finish about talking about the conference first. This is the thing I want you to be excited about. I want you to be thinking about: you've been hanging out in Twitch for a while. You've been going, "I don't know if God's calling me to do this full-time or not." You're going, "I really want to do this full-time. I don't know how to make it work." Well, Reliant is one of those ways to help make it work. So you'll want to come and hang out there.

: I have signed up with Reliance. So yes, I am on senior leadership with the Church Digital, but what I'm doing here in the Gaming Outpost is adjacent to the Church Digital. It's under the umbrella of the Church Digital, but it's my own thing. So for me to be able to do all the things I'm doing digitally over here, I need to raise my own support to do that because the Church Digital, we got a shoestring budget. We're not paying. I like everybody is pretty much volunteers in the whole organization because we believe in it and we are excited about what God is doing.

: So Reliant does like all the HR for the Church Digital and they help take care of all of the taxes and all the other paperwork and all the, you know, if I need a pension or health care, any of those things. I don't, by the way, because my wife has those, but that's what Reliant uses. I'm going to take a little bit more about that than others because I think you'll be interested.

: Oh, hey, hey, hey. I know this guy. Going to be talking metaverse missionary. Uh, and Andrew Jones gonna be talking. That's awesome. Um, sorry, good info to have. Limits are there for a reason though. Yes, you'll talk to the developer of VR. Yep. Tony Iverson. Hello, everyone. This is me, the control room engineer for Blessing Boat, just checking in to see how everything's running. Have a blessed day. Tony, thank you for coming in and checking on us. We're, I'm glad I wasn't sure about signing up for the two-hour slot. I am glad because I've just been having a blast telling you all the exciting things, all the exciting things the Church Digital has, and we are here for all of you. So Tony, thank you for coming and checking on us.

: Uh, Andrew Jones is so handsome. He should have his picture on the site. Overheard from a friend. Yes, yes. Okay, so yeah, we'll be talking metaverse. So yes, he has been doing digital ministry for decades, decades. Uh, has been an in-person missionary. Great friend of mine, by the way. Love hanging out. And you will see him all over Twitch, all over socials, looking and exploring the same way that I do, trying to find new people. So it was only a matter of time before we crossed paths. Um, so there'll be more info explored here. So like I said, we're rolling them out as we're getting them figured out.

: Anesh Arch Victor is a research catalyst for the Church Digital. Yeah, we have a research catalyst. We are helping. He, like, he is doing doctoral, I think it's doctoral work. Uh, he's doing college, wi, whatever degree work that he's doing, and doing research and doing research into digital, artificial intelligence in missions, how digital leaders can use AI to advance the gospel. I'm really excited about what he's doing. I'm glad to call him a friend. He's one that was telling us we need to get into WhatsApp. And so, um, yeah, he's going to be really fun.

: Uh, T Skinny. Uh, 3x3 cheeseburgers and mission of wisdom for digital ministry is the title. Oh, 3x3 cheeseburgers and missional wisdom for digital ministry. Very cool. Very about that. I love a good title that I have no idea what it means. Uh, you don't, you don't know how fun that is. Like, I will go to the talk simply because I have no idea what it is. Everyone loves an In-N-Out. Yes, yes. But I'm saying the connection of the 3x3 cheeseburger and missional wisdom, like that's like, ooh, that sounds like a parable. I like me a good parable. I love a good illustration, a metaphor, if you will. Okay, moving on. Like, okay, I'm going to keep saying like, all these breakout rooms are probably friends of mine, by the way. So Jesse Carbo, founder of Digital Missions Project. By the way, by the way, if you're ever interested in Google ads, DM me. I'll connect you with Jesse Carbo, Digital Missions Project. Actually, I'll be rooming with him and a couple other people at Airbnb when I'm down in Orlando, the 16th through the 21st, for doing Exponential Conference. So I'm going to get to hang out with him. I got to hang out with him in Chicago in person at the Exponential West. I mean, East. No, Central. Exponential Central. I got to get my names right. Okay, Kingdom Growth Hacking using Google for Evangelism. So if you have a physical website—I shouldn't say physical. If you have a website for your ministry, whatever it is, he can help you use the Google ads and the SEO to be able to point people to what you're doing. So for instance, if I had one, I would have my Passing the Cap on there. When someone says, "Hey, I have a need. I'm struggling," it would come up on mine and say, "Hey, inquire about Passing the Cap." I mean, that would be great. I don't have the means or the funds to do any of that now, but just thinking like how would this be used? That's what he does. He helps people with that, plus the YouTube. Uh, the YouTube—I sound like an old man—the YouTube algorithm was what I was going to say. So helps with YouTube as well, and there's a fourth thing I can't remember what it is. So he'll be talking about that, how to help you be able to utilize and use search engines for finding and getting your stuff in front of people.

: Um, Sumi, I love the In-N-Out burgers, but, uh, blue on the fries. Okay, okay, I've had it before, but I don't remember. I don't have it that often. Uh, tall skinny, my kids don't like the fries either. Okay, I'm here at a trend. Onimus, it's all about ordering a 3x1 and putting bacon on it at home. Legit, I like that. Yeah, that sounds right. Um, are all the breakouts happening at the same time so you can only choose one? Phantom, I do not know the schedule of breakouts. Um, so I don't know, for instance, if in Breakout One you get all of these choices, in Breakout Two you get these choices. I don't know how many breakouts you get choices. I don't have that info. Um, do you watch the YouTube? Thank you, Onus, for making fun of me. It's I'm on the Face Prime. I'm on the Face Prime. I'm on the book, book flick. I'm watching the book Flix. Um, YouTube is pure bread and butter. It's where we started. Oh, that's so cool. Okay, so Stacy Nap. Sumi beats chaplain for the Church Digital, going to be talking about grief care in digital spaces. Okay, I'm not—I've not asked you for much engagement. I want you to blow the chat up right now if you run across people who talk about grief. This does not mean death only, but they are grieving about something in their life and they come to you. They share it in their chat. They share it in the Discord. They share it wherever they are. Where in your digital space, just put an emote in the chat that you run and you encounter people like that all over the place. Stacy is awesome. Stacy is awesome. She is a grief companion. She walks alongside of people who are doing that, and we have brought her along because of her servant's heart, her just compassion, to help be the chaplain for all of us in the digital church. So I'm so excited about that. Yeah, loss of friendship, loss of relationship, job losses. Yeah, my daughter has just lost her job. Um, so she's in the middle of that. Um, yeah, if you were, if you happen to—well, no, you weren't here. It happened while I was on a Discord call. She called me and said, "Dad," crying tears. Okay, call is over. Call is over. So yeah, the grief that she was fearing in that moment. Personal change in life stage, caring for aging parents. Stacy, yeah, you and I know. I know everybody's running across these things. So yeah, if just emotes in the chat for anybody that knows people facing this right now. Um, and Stacy, Stacy's helping us to get wiser at that and to be able to be better at helping people walk through that.

: Uh, hey, Toe Lala man. I'd like, I just keep telling you, these are my friends. I'm going to run into somebody here I don't know in just a minute, but he is our Southern Africa Outpost leader. I think we should actually say Central Africa, but anyway, if we're just going north and south, he is our Southern Africa leader. He's been doing digital ministry for some time, been hanging out with us for like three years and outposts. Okay, so I haven't talked much about Outpost, but he's going from follower ref to disciplemakers online. Really excited about what he's doing. So he has utilized Facebook ads to put things out there to get responses from people. Um, and what he's spending for Facebook ads where he lives in Africa—pennies, pennies in US dollars—to be able to get the gospel in front of people. Um, so he is really good, really effective in what he's doing, and we're learning from him because, you know what, what works in Africa may not work in the US, and what works in the US may not work in Europe, and what works in Europe may not work in Asia, and what works in Asia may not work in South America, and what works in South America not working in Australia. So we need to learn from one another and we need to adapt and change and grow. And be, so anyway, um, he's going to be doing a breakout there talking about being a disciplemaker online. Uh, on this seems like any Christian content creator is a magnet for people who want to share their woes. You are 100% right, Onimus. You are. I mean, we are. We are. That's a good thing though. That's where we are here for. 100%, 100%. Sui, very true. You don't even post a lot of content, and yet people want to engage and share with you. Exactly. Okay, Kit Williams. I do not know Kit Williams. We found someone I don't know in the breakouts. Uh, but going to be talking about "Is This Legal?" So they are from Compassion International. They are the global legal council. So when you go across borders, when you are international, like what is legal, what's not legal, helping figure out those things, copyright things. If you're using music in the background, what's legal, what's not legal, any of those questions that you might have. Um, Mike.

: I don't know him either. Marabella, Marabella International Missions Board. So the intersection of VR and traditional missions. Ooh, that sounds good. Um, how can the church digital help me become a better digital missionary? I don't know who's speaking for that, but I know how we can help you. I know how we can help you. One, join the Discord. Well, one, come to the conference. Two, join the Discord or the WhatsApp. Uh, three, get into EDM, and I'll talk about that later. You love Compassion International? Yes. Compassion International does some really, really good work. Okay. Uh, Room K, Seven Keys to Resilience. Rebecca Bailey, uh, Ministry Coach. H, Made Strong. So, um, I do know of Hope Made Strong, but I do not know uh Rebecca Bailey. So uh like we've got into the section where some people I do not know. So uh got to get to church. Sumi, yes, have a great at church. Uh, thought it's though it's digital. That's right. Thought. So you might be going anywhere. Ha, bless you. Yep, yep, yeah, you're not going anywhere. You're going to another uh you're going to Zoom. You'll be going to another platform because platforms are places. Mama Brick sounds great with many opt. Exactly. You know what we're, I'm not saying we're copying, but I'm saying if you Mama Brick was at Reach Conference with me last year. Like the, what do I go to? The what do I do? I want to go to all of these things. And the FOMO of uh I can't go to everything that's happening right now. You're going to have it too at this conference. You're going to have it too. Uh, I wish I could go to every breakout. Yep, you're not gonna. You're not going to be able to. So uh next one. So Darren Al, Al, Alard, Alard. I'm not sure. I'm not sure his last name. I know Darren. Uh, Salt and Light. So Salt and Light is developing um a a prayer app to be able to respond to people with prayer. Uh, it's called um Seedling. It's pretty fantastic. I I as it gets developed and launched, you know, I'll talk about it. I love promoting my friends. I love promoting what people are doing. So I'm very interested in it. I can put a QR code up at my prayer booth in person, and people can scan it and send me prayer requests, and I can follow up with them on. I can't wait to make that happen. Uh, anyway, he's going be talking this the Roman Centurion and the outpouring of his spirit. So ooh, I bet he's going to be talking about prayer. I bet he's going to be talking about prayer. I know that's what their focus is. Um, and then my good buddy Whitebeard Punk Monk with twenty-four-hour prayer. And I know uh Mama Brick builds. I did get a connection with Pre, Pre Pony who was talking about prayer at uh Reach Conference. So I'll I'll be doing some follow-up talking with him while I'm in Orlando for Exponential because I'm going to be helping my buddy Whitebeard Punk Monk. And if you don't, you've never seen him. He wears a monk outfit. He goes to the um the uh music areas in the Tampa where people do a lot of drugs. He's dressed as a monk. He has a giant, giant beard. He used to have a mohawk. And uh he passes out water bottles to people who, well, you know what, they're not having such a good trip that they thought they were. Uh, so he's going to be talking about praying like monks, living like fools. Uh, so he's been doing twenty-four prayer for quite some time. And he's helping. He does for Exponential the twenty-four seven or twenty-four seven prayer. Uh, they they have ministry there. He invited me. That's why I'm going to Orlando on the sixteenth. It's because he said he would you like to come and help at the twenty-four seven prayer? And I said absolutely. I would love that. Uh, Alice, that's quite the number of breakouts. Good job. Some videos are recorded for later, right? Well, none of the breakouts are going to be recorded. Uh, it's too many to record. So we will just be having breakout rooms that you'll go into, and we're not recording the breakout. So you will, if you miss a breakout, you miss a breakout. And then oh my goodness. Oh my good. I know, I know. Like, but it's it's conversational. It's conversational. So we we want to respect and uh protect everybody that's in those settings is is part of it. Um, so Preston Blessing Boat is going to be talking about Gamers Need Jesus Too. He's going to be coming in doing a breakout for us talking about Gamers Need Jesus. So if you are in the Blessing Boat and you hang out there, you know Warrior of Light and uh Warer. If you're if you're still hanging in here, if you want to add anything that you thinking about sharing, I mean, we know Blessing Boat, but you know what, the people who are coming to the conference may not know Blessing Boat. So any of you, and I don't know what you're going to be able to do for this, but I'm just going to say at least, at least between now and April second, if you've been on Blessing Boat, make a VOD and talk about what blessing it has been to you, what it's meant in your ministry, so that it gets on the website. So when people go, I want to go check out Blessing Boat more and wonder what it is, he'll be able to point them to to it and see your wonderful faces. Or if you use an avatar, your magnificent avatars, and talk about what is happening in gaming spaces. So that would be uh a big help. You think they run all day long? I have no idea. Uh, Tall Skinny, I I've looked at it, but uh as this has expanded, as it's changed, I'm not sure. Oh, VR Tiger is doing one. You know that guy? He's creative. Yeah. Um, I just heard that. Oh wait, wait, let me get there. I got one more. Between Simon, Simon Dereks uh is a digital region uh with a Lies M Missions. So he is going to be talking from Vision to Outpost, launching a digital Church Network. So he is in in in Germany. And so I don't know if he's going to be speaking in German or not. But if you are German speaking and you go to his, you'll be able to get connected with him in the network uh that we have in the church digital. So uh he was, he was uh hanging out with us, learning some stuff from us. Said we're launching this thing. We're struggling with where do we put it? There's cost to us being able to get a platform where we can gather our people together. This is before we got on Discord. And we said, well, you can join us. We'll create a spot for you. You bring your people over here. We'll create it for you. You can control it. Um, and so One Resin just followed. One Resin, welcome in. One reason why is so I do not know why it's not showing my alerts. I have it set to show. I don't know. We'll figure that out. So One Reason, welcome in, friend. So anyway, he's been uh in there. We moved to Discord. He came over. Uh, we we're developing. We're working alongside of him. He has a whole church planting network of digital churches throughout Europe that are German speaking. So Simon, great friend. Uh, and Outposts are the places where if you are a digital missionary, you come and you hang out. Uh, I'll talk about that a little bit more. Um, Tall Skinny, I meant there are different times for all the breakouts, so people can choose. Yeah, yeah, right, right, right. And I just don't know what those times are. Oh, so here we went back to Room A. So this must be the second go round. We're in Room A. So Room A through N would be a first choice. And maybe those breakouts will go twice. Like you go morning breakouts. You do one break, break out. Then you switch and do a second breakout. I don't know the full schedule. It'll be coming out as we get closer. Uh, Warrior, you are here, but had to pick up son. I mean new wife. Yes, no worries. I just thought if you had something to add. Uh, VR Tiger, Lead Pastor for Oasis Church VR. I do not know Oasis Church. How would, how is there someone I don't know? I need to go find out about VR Tiger. Okay. World Building and EV Evangelism in VR. So um, Alice, you know VR Tiger. Uh, have you been to Oasis Church? What what's it like? Um, and then Gabe Deok, Lead Pastor of Kings Tide Church. Uh, I've I've know Gabe a little bit, not much. Uh, a Ministry That Never Sleeps. So uh, I believe he has developed uh just an amazing Discord Community uh and where like twenty-four seven stuff is happening in Discord. Donnie, you need sleep, but not going into it. Uh, but prayers are appreciated. Absolutely. So you need sleep. You're not going to it. We'll pray. Absolutely. Uh, Tall Skinny, I have uh been to VR or to VR Tiger's Church many times at Oasis VR Church. Uh, VR Tiger and crew create new worlds for each sermon series. Pretty cool. Oh, very cool, very cool. Thank you for the lure, Donnie. Uh, pray, pray for your friend. God, we're just praying for Donnie to be able to get the sleep that he needs. Uh, we often run into people that um this the middle of the day for us is the middle of their night, even if it is daylight out, and they need sleep to be able to uh get up and do the work that they need to. So just praying for Donnie, give him peace. Uh, be with him, allow him to uh be fully rested to do what he needs to when he wakes up. Pray this in Jesus name, amen. Uh, Alice, he originated in Alt Space and built huge worlds, then moved to VR Chat. Very contemporary. Yeah. Okay. I think maybe um maybe I might, might have watched a video once that somebody was streaming uh on Twitch from there. I'm not sure with the the world builds. I think I may have seen that. Uh, Warrior, you should also reach out to other VR pastors. He was in Blessing Boat a while back. You you have to get ready. Absolutely. Oh yeah, yeah. Um, and I'm trying to reach out. I don't know as many VR pastors as I know Twitch pastors. And uh and that. So okay, we're back to Jesse Carbo talking about that. Uh, so we're going back through the loop of people that are going to be talking more than once. You'll reach out. That's a great idea. Um, Kingdom Growth Hacking, using Google for Evangelism. Uh, Stacy. Uh, Grief Care in the Digital Space. Uh, similar talk or the same one. I'm not sure. From Followers to Disciple Makers. Okay, some of these look like the same titles. Oh, an, I know an, an has Chapel Online. So Lead Pastor for the Chapel Online Global Church that is in Facebook and does morning prayers, gathers for Chapel, does some other things. So Crossing the Cultural Divide. So talking about, she has lots of followers in Africa. Oh, anybody know Alina? Pastor Alina from VR MMO Church. So pastoring in virtual reality. I'm super excited, super excited. Oasis. Uh, Talin says uh was in Spatial for a while, but there wasn't much of an audience, so they moved to VR Chat. Phantom, I've heard of her. Uh, the church uh digital help me become a digital missionary. To be announced. Okay, so apparently we don't have that nailed down. Probably it'll be whoever's available. It's your turn. Okay, so these look like there's um some uh duplication here. Model of Care. The Roman Centurion. Praying Like Monks. Okay, who should attend? Church leaders exploring digital discipleship strategies. Online content creators, all of you here. Missionaries expanding their reach. These would be physical missionaries uh for instance that might be in uh oppressed places like the Middle East or uh in India. And uh they need to be able to connect and reach people uh more anonymously and work in digital basis because gathering in public has becoming more and more dangerous. So those kinds of things. Um, those aren't the only places, but others. Anyone passionate about taking the gospel into unreached spaces. So uh I think I think I've covered most everything that I want to say. Alice, of course, we know Alina. Exactly. Christian Ninja or Taco should be there. Uh, you think you went to her house once? Yes, I think Alice, you did. I've not been there, but man, you did some traveling. Okay, so that's the conference. That's you know what's going on there. I told you I was going to talk about um Outpost. I've got a little time. So Outpost. This is the thing that I'm doing. And the gaming Outpost. Let me talk about that. Um, yeah, let's do that. So this is my presentation that I have that I do. Uh, or I'm working towards doing. Let me see if I can change this a bit and pull it in so I can make it. Oops, not the one I want. This way. Oops. I can uh make it bigger so you can see the full screen.

: Here yes you see my little target behind of where things are supposed to go okay there we go ignore the man behind the curtain so yeah Alice the world traveler I know I know that's how I had tea with Alice I haven't I have not been to England since I met Alice but prior to meeting Alice I'd been to England several times mostly London I've not taken England as a destination but now that I have friends there like Alice and Cis pineapple and then others up in the Scotland um I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to someday okay so what I am doing with the church digital is I am creating a digital missionary outpost in online video gaming like all of you who are here you don't need all of that title but that is for people that like what where how huh I don't what do you you can uh that's all for them I and then I used AI to generate uh the image there I wish I had this setup I do not 121 just followed hey thank you for the follow appreciate you appreciate you so much yeah London is different absolutely absolutely so what what is the purpose of the online video gaming uh outpost it is for training for resourcing for encouraging and mobilizing those are the things that you'll do when you hang out so if you join me over in Discord um you will definitely uh be getting training resourcing equipping and helping you to go into places you've not gone before okay so oh I'm doxing myself there there you go doxing myself I've been married for over thirty years I have three kids I have over one hundred fish if you can't see koi and coy here and more around I have been in ministry for over twenty five years I cycle hundreds of miles a year I started a cross country team from scratch and in five years five years later the boys won the regional and we had the state champion in cross country and it's still going today very proud of that very proud of that okay that has nothing to do with what I'm doing in digital spaces but as I meet with people and talk with them and give a little story story it's like here's some other things that are just fun to know about me okay yeah you don't think the one pillar in the middle could support all the monitors yes very true very true but I love it I love it it's super cool um okay so I don't have yes docked I know I know I don't do it often but hey you know this is a new channel it'll be an old VOD nobody will watch it in a few years uh so one in three Americans report feeling lonely frequently almost all the time or all the time and if you are in Twitch you know this and this is just American stats uh so I don't know global stats these are the ones that I was able to get access to up to eighty percent of church growth is transfer growth in the US so if you have eight new people in or sorry said ten new people in church well then eight of them came from another church you did not reach anyone new and then two out of three young people who are raised in the church will walk away from their faith so those are some horrible statistics I know I know yeah we all know your your name rhymes with Satan now it does it does uh which is how I love to introduce myself when I when I give my name but we won't go there um so this is this is not convincing any of you but this is my presentation that I give to people so Reliant was talking about earlier Reliant is the one who has the whole system of how do you do a presentation for doing fundraising they help me development they helped me hone this they helped me practice so all of that Phantom you didn't think about that oh yes so you know when you're a kid and you take the first letter of the first name maybe you didn't do this but back in the day we were cruel and the first letter of the last name and you switch them around you know um like you know Anna Banana that kind of a thing and you flip names around uh yeah that's that's where uh my name my name comes out Satan lies Satan lies so you know you'd be doing that on the school bus and you flip people's around and you go haha and then you go Satan lies and I go yes he does and then it wasn't fun no nobody nobody enjoyed it to poke fun of me with my name yes yes I think it's awesome by the way I think it's awesome I mean who else who else's name if you flip it around is Satan lies just me just me okay so the I'm going to go through these stats pretty quick here because you probably know them there are three point two billion active video game players globally a growth rate of over a billion people in eight years the two hundred eighty two billion is the estimate of the video game industry and esports players are increasingly contributing to that figure and now colleges are giving scholarships for esports you don't think you had that game Phantom okay maybe it's a little bit older you know back in the day when we were cruel and we didn't have you know be kind uh in school okay this is twenty twenty four stats more than seven point three million channels go live on Twitch each month so this month there are going to be seven million channels I'm not subscribed to that many they won't let me uh to date Twitch content has been viewed by twenty or viewed for twenty one billion hours boom mind mind exploding there around two million viewers are watching streams right now why aren't they all here we need to let them know that this is where they need to be at blessing boat um on average ninety five thousand channels are streaming simultaneously so there are two million people watching ninety five thousand channels right now Jim Bim one twenty one you give glory to God and even your name backwards does LOL also hi yes yes my name backwards gives my my name anagrammed just follow hey I I couldn't catch all of that um you know what let me find this where where are I alerts at um there we go faithful Wanderer followed there we go now I found my list there we go okay uh so again like you don't need all these stats if you're here you know all of that uh the good news is the only source of hope for the world is the good news of Jesus Christ and then I like to use this passage from Isaiah the people walking in darkness have seen a great light on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned uh I like to think about digital spaces uh as needing the light of Jesus and that's what we're doing we're bringing the light of Jesus wherever we go yeah yeah that not backwards yeah I knew what you meant knew what you meant anagramming or something along those lines so anyway uh I already talked about the church digital but quickly let me talk about uh its mission our mission to digitally empower churches and individuals to share the gospel and build digital community our vision is to send equip and mobilize missionaries in digital spaces so I'm working yes we all need Jesus so this is more for those people that are in physical spaces and are like no you have to be physically present well if I was to go explore Africa or Asia or China I would learn what it's like before I go there when I go at a digital space I need to do the same I need to explore if you're going into a video game you want to know about what's it like in the video game what's the genre of the video game what are the aesthetics on platforms you do the same thing so as we go into digital spaces what do we do we encourage the people that are already there and those that we find along the way we encourage them what is the blessing boat doing right now it's encouraging those that are in ministry doing what they're doing what God's called them to do and it encourages new people to come along and become digital missionaries themself or become involved by supporting those that are bashful of Christ in the house um also exploring when you go to a place you don't just bring who you are and tell them how they need to be you explore what it's like there one of the things I did that was so beneficial for me before I went live is I was in Twitch for six months before I went live I learned some of the culture I learned how things go I learned how I wanted to do things and then I continue to explore as I am there now I'm exploring in VR uh that's just mind blowing to me I've been doing that for six months and just slowly but surely um and then empowering so we want to empower you to be able to do the things that you are doing what are the things that you need to be able to uh do ministry and experiment so this whole thing the podcast here is an experiment will it work I hope so me doing on my stream uh workout streams is an experiment so anyway um Bido we woke up early from third shift to make it hope you're all well appreciate appreciate that so much um Jim Bim people tend to limit God including with online stuff but God can use whatever he wants he's not in the box exactly he's not even in the box in front of me he is everywhere okay I'm looking at the clock anyone worried I know I got eight minutes will be fine uh but I'm like wow my time has gone fast uh Onimus so you are saying when Elon Musk sends me to Mars you can still connect and fellowship boom exactly one nineteen just followed hey hey Durn thank you for the follow okay so this is what I'm doing this is what I think other people are doing uh the other thing that I want to do for all of you who are in my Discord community uh and who are hanging out with the church digital or if you're over on my other Discord is we create community we pray for one another and then tangible resources so what is it that you need so right now one of the things that I'm doing with VR church I am helping VR church with tangible resources what do they need right now they need pulpit supplies so I've been doing that myself I've been recruiting other people to help out there also uh addressing other things within the community talking about um mental health challenges and and trying to do some things there so uh that's part of what my goal is so if you come across and say here's the thing we're struggling with here's what we don't need what to do you come find me I will find someone to help us be able to do that if there is no one else I'll help us create it uh in some way or help you create it so that you can meet the needs of what's going on and then reporting and accountability all of the people that I am uh raising funds with or sending me funds or all of you we want to share the stories so we can go back to supporters and say here's what God is doing we want to report we want to be accountable and then financially I love this idea so some of you run into this where suddenly a disaster happens and you lose your capacity to stream your computer dies your internet dies well a missionary a agency when you have struggles on the front line they step in with financial resources to help you if you need to be evacuated they help you if you're suddenly hospitalized we want to build that so this is a long term goal it won't happen right away but we want want to build a safety fund to help our digital missionaries if some disaster happens to you and you need to recover from it and you have no other means we want to step in and help so that's what is going to happen with all of those things so I'm just going to put this on the screen you don't have to support me but if I know some people will ask if I do not so if you go to rant that's how you can help me um be be able to be funded uh and that's great I'm not going to leave it up there but I do really want all of you to pray with and for me okay there's my quick little spiel quick I say that it took two hours to go through all of that I think I covered everything I wanted wow it took me a long time this has been great uh you guys have had great conversations I love so many of you I know so many of you and didn't say I love so many of you cuz I love all of you but I mean I know so many of you uh you need tech assistance and encouragement honestly well you know I am always giving you encouragement I'm watching you people I love being Barnabas and I try help him with a tech there's wiser people in the chat than me Jim Bim anyone who

: Says God can't vote, uh, use such and such, will probably see him do and be surprised yet learn. Phantom, yes, thank you, uh, for helping VR, uh, chat, flat cap. It was great to hear your sermon. Thank you so much, and I, I, I tell everybody how bad my struggles are over there, but honestly, I'm loving it. One more thing: those of you who are trying to talk to your physical churches about this idea, um, they don't understand that technology is not a new thing, okay? Um, digital technology is new, but using technology for the gospel is not new. Letters. Paul and the other disciples used letters. Letters were new. Uh, let me remind you, Paul had never been to Rome, to the Roman Church, when he wrote a letter to them, okay? It's kind of like pen pals or sponsorship of a child in another country. It's not something that he was, you know, had already been there. He knew the people and he's writing to someone he already knows. He doesn't have another means of communication other than a letter and sending someone along with it to get messages to people who are far away. He's using the tech of the day. Uh, it's analog, but it's the tech of the day. Scribes. He didn't write everything himself. He dictated things. Maybe not dictate. It's not the right word, but he conveyed to them and they wrote in the best possible way his ideas that were transcribed and sent out. He used Greek. He learned the vocab. He knew the vernacular of the day to communicate with the most people possible who could receive it. And he used couriers to send it and he used the Roman roads and he used ships. What if someone said to him, "Paul, I'm sorry, you can't use ships. Paul, I'm sorry, you can't use couriers. You have to hand deliver these things because the only thing that counts is in person. You can't use letters. Paul, you have to go to all of these churches." Anybody really think that that makes any logical sense? So the answer's no. The answer's no. It does not make any, any sense whatsoever. All right, um, oh, not the one I want. This is the, oh, sorry, I got to learn what my titles are over here. All right, so, so any questions? I've given you so much, friends. I didn't even get to talk about our digital missionary cohorts that we have, so that's something I can share another time. But you'll learn about those if you come to the conference. So please go sign up for the conference so that those, and if you came in late, let me tell you what it is. It's missionary.digital, uh, and you'll be able to, uh, go to the conference, hang out there, learn. I spent a lot of time going over all of what's there, what we're doing, what I'm doing. I'm super excited, uh, and I'm here to help with all of you. Hit me up anytime, whatever you're struggling with. Uh, join me in the Discord over the church digital. I think I had that earlier. Let me see, is this still there? There it is. Let me know if this works. Join the Discord over here for the church digital. Join the section that says Gaming Outpost. Uh, it's just a lack of understanding. It totally is. It's a, it's a misunderstanding in the perception. Uh, the other thing I've got great ideas for the, you know, the first, uh, or should say in-person church to be able to, oh, there we go. Raid, raid, raid command. There I love it. I'm watching you people. If I can figure out how to copy it, it's not letting me. Anyway, well, close enough. Got anyway. All right, um, are we ready to raid out? Let me find the raid button here. Unless I get a no, we're not ready to raid. I'm going to pull it up. Well, I've been here two hours. I've been here two hours, so it should be one p.m. Central time. I just want to make sure Blessing Boat is ready to have me raid over. So thank you for the Bitties. You know what? If you didn't come here, you weren't here to begin with. We had a raid train, a hype train. Uh, you know, it was super awesome when everybody came in. I felt so much love from everybody, and now we're going out with that. So I'm just going to go ahead and start the raid so that we can go over. I'm not seeing anything saying no, so the raid is being started. If they say no, stop it, we will stop it. So let me do what I normally do when I end a stream. I send you off with a blessing. So may God's seeking comfort find you. May his loving arms bind you. May his might protect you. May his wisdom direct you. May the joyous love of Jesus Christ be with you and all those you know, both now and forevermore. Amen. Thank you, thank you, thank you for hanging out with me where I just rambled for two hours. Oh, it's been such a good time. God has blessed all of you. I hope you have blessed me. Let's go. Let's bless other people. I have no credits yet set up on this channel, so you've got me until we raid out, or, you know what, I guess, you know what, let me go back to this and you can see the slides I've got.