INNOVATION

GIFT is introducing the Church to a concept we call, The Fusion Of Physical Space & Technology.

We're encouraging Churches to go beyond current in-Church multi-media tools and affect a transformation that can expand the reach of the Church across new venues and into more lives than ever. Through this "Fusion," the church can expand its influence amid today's hurried and technologically enabled culture.

At GIFT, we've identified the best technology platforms to bring the best of "spiritual content" to people wherever they want to receive it. This can radically transform the impact of today's Churches and sets a foundation for the Church of the future.

GIFT's Fusion of Physical Space & Technology can support traditional Church operations; extend the Church into new, alternative venues; and help the Church align with new technology-based learning styles of our youth.

GIFT is partnering with Nanonation to bring this technology to the Church Community. Nanonation has built cutting-edge software, tools, and technologies to help organizations deliver incredible experiences. Nanonation was just designated Industry Leader of the Year and won awards for Kiosk of the Year and Best Interface Design.

Churches can benefit from a more centralized support of all their denomination locations and can disseminate worship content into the alternative venues identified by Barna, such as a Church in a Cafe, Cyber Churches, Home Churches and Small Group gatherings.

GIFT's Fusion of Physical Space & Technology can help the alleviate burdens facing many Churches such as insufficient manpower for conducting services, teaching Sunday school and running teen ministries.

Since this technology can dispatch Christian content to homes, small group settings and cell phones, the Church can now serve a busy population at their convenience 24/7/365. No longer does encouraging someone's faith need to be restricted to Sunday service or Wednesday evening hours.

GIFT's seeks to help the Church deploy Fusion of Physical Space & Technology per the following processes:

1. Use technology to capture and dispatch the best sermons, testimonies, discipleship lessons and worship content from a central location out to remote, satellite locations -- including both Churches & alternative marketplace ministry faith-building venues

2. Equip “satellite” operations to receive content via Large Screen TVs; Computer Desktops; Kiosks and Cell Phones

3. Where available, overlay one-on-one support in satellite operations -- using elders, parishioners, lay ministers & Eucharistic ministers to supplement the availability of pastors and priests and to disciple visitors.

4. In "Church in a Cafe" locations, food service operations would be outsourced and technology would be managed remotely so church personnel or members could focus on providing "Counter Encounters" and on developing local outreach ministries.

5. For Small Group and Home Church efforts, content can be directed to home PCs through Desktop Browsers and even to cell phones.

6. Cell phones can both receive and re-distribute content to enable personal evangelizing and discipling.

Using Technology To Support Our Youth

GIFT is also developing the Fusion of Physical Space and Technology to support our youth in their faith-building and relationships.

GIFT wants to help the Church better connect with our youth and leverage their reliance on technology.

Our youth currently rely on PCs, cell phones, blogs, IM’s, music downloads -- and other “viral” communications tools and messages -- to build relationships and manage their livelihoods.

• 90% of college students and 70% of high school seniors and juniors now own cell phones.

• To meet the demands of both their educational and social lives, our youth now blog; thumb messages to one another via their cell phones; and research and publish classroom homework via the web. They no longer expect static presentations or lectures but want to engage in communities of learning. Communities enabled via advanced technology and experiences.

GIFT is working with an technology vendor who can dispatch multi-media content out to remote locations using all kinds of technology. Differing content can be distributed according to the receiving location or sending organization.

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