Engaging with Media - 7-10 July 2010
This is a group for people who want to engage with contemporary media at a deeper level. People who have a vision for how to use film & TV in their ministry and outreach. Or people who want to help other Christians become more aware of the messages of mass media. So you should be a Graduate with a passion for this area - maybe working in media, or with an intense interest, or perhaps in full-time Christian ministry (IFES staff or church) and wanting to know how better to use film and TV in your evangelism and pre-evangelism.
Tony Watkins who runs the CultureWatch programme at Damaris is one of the great Christian thinkers in this area. He will head the group and over the three years will train and equip and develop this group into a virtual CultureWatch network embedded within the staff students and graduates of our movements!So we see the group achieving the following:
- Everyone will learn about the principles behind media interpretation;
- Everyone will be coached in the skills of using and critiquing media;
- We will learn from each other about best practise for using media to open the door for Gospel conversations;
- Everyone will become a critic writing regular blogs and reviews of media in their country;
- Together we will create new web resource angled at students giving Christians fresh insight into what they watch and how they talk about it;
- And by God's grace we will try to form a team from this group of people who will build and develop resources and training material that can be used by your IFES movement.
