Welcome to Season 5 of The Church Digital Podcast, as we’re talking about how to take your church’s digital and/or metaverse ministry to the next level. And do we have a great conversation for you here, right off the bat!
This idea escalated quickly. Not that long ago Ryan Sidhom, Lead Pastor at the Church Plant River City Church approached me with an idea: let’s do mission trips into the Metaverse. He even pitched his church as the guinea pig to test the model of an actual “mission trip” in the metaverse, where we take people into Virtual Reality to be on mission. We’ve built trainings around my books VR & The Metaverse Church as well as Sharing Jesus Online. Evidently, word got out.
The test idea exploded. Leadership Network is doing a learning community where we’re helping US Churches understand the missional implications of the metaverse. Similarly, GACX is doing a similar learning community with our metaverse mission trip for international mission orgs. Oh, and let’s not forget about Relevant Magazine writing about what we’re up to.
This is what we’re diving into with this podcast! We’ve got Ryan coming in and talking about the mission trip, and how Leadership Network wants to help churches like yours host a metaverse mission trip THIS YEAR! So chuck out the launch of Season 5 on The Church Digital Podcast, and for more information on Leadnet’s Learning Community and the Metaverse Mission Trip check out http://leadnet.org/mlc
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ON THE SHOW
Host: Jeff Reed
THECHURCH.DIGITAL & DigitalChurch.Network
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Guest: Ryan Sidhom
Lead Pastor, River City Church Vancouver
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ABOUT RYAN SIDHOM
Ryan Sidhom has been married to Clarissa for 11 years, and they are proud parents to Banner (7) and Anchor (4). They are in love with the Pacific Northwest and especially Vancouver! In their free time they enjoy the Vancouver Farmer’s Market, roasting their own coffee, and trying new foods.
RESOURCES
- Download or Buy Jeff's Book, VR & the Metaverse Church - http://thechurch.digital/vrbook
- Download or Buy Jeff's and Dr. John Harris' book: Sharing Jesus Online - http://SharingJesusOnline.com
- Give to Digital Church Network - http://digitalchurch.network/give
- Learning Community, Digital Discipleship - http://leadnet.org/dlc
- Learning Community, VR and the Metaverse - http://leadnet.org/mlc
- Digital Church Network Community - https://digitalchurch.network/joinfam
- Best Evangelism Opportunity the American Church - http://thechurch.digital/hegetsus
- Exponential Conference - http://exponential.org
- Digital Church Network Leadership Opportunities - http://digitalchurch.network/events
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