There has never been a better time to connect your congregation with PAOC Global workers in real-time. During the COVID-19 crisis, many workers are in the field. However, they can feel closer to home and their supporters more than ever before.
On a recent March morning one of our Global Workers connected with a group of women in Barrhead, Alberta. These women had supported her work with at-risk women in the Middle East without ever meeting. For the first time, they were able to put a face and a voice to the woman who had inspired them. They laughed, listened, and leaned in together.
A few days later we learned about God’s provision with Wayne and Ann Hilsden in Jerusalem and shared coffee with Darren McRae in Bogota. Thank Zoom for the connections.
Zoom is the ticket to take your congregation anywhere in the world for free. Physical isolation because of COVID-19 can mean unlimited opportunities to connect using online tools like Zoom. International workers who typically connect using sound-bite video presentations or furlough visits with Canadian congregations can visit online in real-time.
Tap Into The Zoom Boom
1. Set up a free Zoom account. https://zoom.us/signup Zoom allows you to host a meeting for up to 100 people for 40 minutes.
2. Schedule a Zoom meeting. Zoom will create a link for your meeting. Copy the link and share it on all your social platforms with an invitation to meet-up with a global worker.
3. Set up a simple outline for a 15-20 minute Global Worker meeting:
As the host, show up 10 minutes before the scheduled meeting and welcome people as they join the meeting – 1 minute
Introduce the Global Worker to your Zoom group – 1 minute
The Global worker information about their ministry or you can interview the worker:
what are they are experiencing in this crisis – 3 minutes
how are they are helping in their area – 2 minutes
how we can help the worker – 1 minute
have the worker shares a verse and one devotional thought that is speaks to them – 3 minutes
Pray for the worker and their family – 1 minute
Questions from participants – 3 minutes
Wrap-up – 1 minute
Set up a Repeat meeting with the worker in a month or two
4. Connect with Global Workers who are known to your congregation. The Pentecostal Assemblies website lists Gllobal Workers’ Facebook, Twitter or email information. https://paoc.org/missions/donate/global-workers
Message a Global Worker and invite them to Zoom in with your congregation.
Send the Zoom meeting link and the time of your meeting.
All they need to do is click on the link and they will be on your screen.
Ask them to be ready to share the information listed above.
Engage your congregation in real-time interaction and prayer with frontline workers in your corners of a world needing good news.
We are gathering short videos from ABNWT Global Workers, you can find them HERE.
Bob Jones is the founder of REVwords.com, an author, blogger, and coach with 39 years of pastoral experience. Bob is also an Advance Coach with the ABNWT Resource Centre. You can connect with Bob here.