Editorial: Using the Internet as a powerful tool for evangelism

["Taiwan Church News" <enews@pctpress.org>]

3099 Edition

July 18-24, 2011

Editorial

Editorial: Using the Internet as a powerful tool for evangelism

Translated by Lydia Ma

Words are symbols that have withstood the test of time because they have 
carried important information down the ages without losing the original meaning 
and intent of the writer. It’s precisely because words are so powerful that 
human lives have been changed so significantly in the past 1,000 years or so 
since the Bible was circulated.

In 1875, when Rev. Thomas Barclay came to Taiwan and began a mass education 
movement, he taught the people to read the Bible and Taiwan Church News through 
learning POJ.

In more recent times and with the invention of other forms of media, photos and 
videos have been added to written reports as important means of communication. 
For example, communications ministry now includes many modes of communication 
other than print media, including motion pictures, radio, social media, etc. 
Many ministries actually use a combination of these modes to get their messages 
through and share the gospel with others.

Taiwan Church Press launched its internet ministry in early 2011 with the 
unveiling of “Taiwan Church News Network” (TCNN). In many ways, TCNN’s debut is 
not surprising because communication is no longer limited to print media. There 
is another mode of communication that can reach more people in a shorter 
timespan – Internet.

TCNN was created partly because we knew there were some powerful qualities or 
aspects of Internet media that cannot be translated or captured in print media, 
such as sound, video footage, and breaking news. So, TCNN was created to 
supplement the existing print newspaper.

To make better use of TCNN and boost its immediacy, future reports on the site 
will no longer be restricted to articles reported on Taiwan Church News. We 
will be adding local news from all parts of Taiwan also and as they become 
known.

For communication ministries to continue impacting and changing lives, we must 
expand our ministries to include the “www” world in which we live in. TCNN is 
only a beginning and we covet your prayer and financial support because we have 
very limited resources. We hope that with your support, TCNN can grow up strong 
and be an effective tool to share the gospel.

 

For more on TCNN, please go to www.tcnn.org.tw

 

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