 I'm reading from NIV, and in 3 the Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovered your sight for the blind to set the oppressed free. Thank you. We have a gracious Father in the Holy Name of Jesus. Lord, we want to thank you so much for this opportunity to be in your sanctuary, Lord. We want to thank you for our online viewers. We want to thank you also for those who are in the sanctuary with us, my Father. We thank you because we have read your Word, and Lord of Mercy, we want to pray that it then, as our brother, comes to expand your Word, may we be able to understand it so that it may change our lives, my Father. Lord, you say that we should be doers of the Word, and it's not just so that we can listen and hear, but that it may also reflect in our lives. We thank you for this opportunity, and we pray, dear Father, that you continue to bless all of us, my Lord. I thank you for this always, for this is my prayer in the mighty Name of Jesus. Amen. Good evening viewers. Good evening viewers. My name is Brian Kajwang. I'm so glad to be here in front of you. I'm glad to be in the presence of my God, Jesus Christ, and at this occasion of midweek prayer on this Wednesday, I welcome you to another session of Grace, where we're going to talk about digital evangelism. I'm grateful for God giving us life today, and each of us should be thankful for the life that we have. Not many people woke up this morning. Not many people had an opportunity to see today, but you and I have that opportunity, and so we need to remember the God who gave us that life, Jesus Christ, and lift him up today. Thank you for the smallest things that you have. Thank him for the things that you take for granted, like breathing, like seeing, like moving our arms and legs, like hearing, we being able to write, being able to drive your car, being able to eat without having someone to feed you. So many little things that God has blessed us with, even family members, is even blessed as some of us with wives, husbands, children. Not many have children, so be thankful for what you have. Be thankful for your life and think about your life. Let us believe and pray. Gracious and Almighty Father, we come before you today with our hearts filled with gratitude and a burning passion to serve as digital disciples, carrying the light of your love into the vast realms of the digital world. Inspired by the words of your son in Luke chapter 4 of verse 18, we embrace the calling to proclaim the good news to the poor, bind up the brokenhearted, and set the captives free. In this age of technology, we recognize the power of digital evangelism as a tool to reach the lost and save souls for Jesus. Just as Jesus declared his mission to bring liberty to the oppressed, may our digital endeavors break the chains that bind our hearts and our minds of those who have yet to know your saving grace. Grant us the wisdom as we navigate through this digital landscape, using every platform and every medium to spread the message of hope, the message of redemption and eternal love found in your Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ. Bless our online interactions, our conversations, and our shared content that they may serve as vessels for your divine truth to touch the lives of those who are seeking, wondering, or lost. As we embark on this digital journey of faith, let your Holy Spirit guide our keystrokes, our mouse clicks, transforming our online spaces into sanctuaries of grace and compassion. May the light of Christ shine brightly through our digital presence, drawing souls nearer and closer to you. Lord, we humbly surrender our digital tools and talents to your service. Trusting that through them, hearts may be opened, lives may be transformed in Jesus' name we pray and believe. Amen. Amen indeed, amen. We thank God for giving us that opportunity to worship Him once again. And so I'm going to begin by giving us an introduction to digital evangelism. Can we guess what has just happened in the last 60 seconds online? A probable number of one million people have logged on to Facebook. 3.8 million people have searched on Google. 4.5 million videos were viewed on YouTube. 300,000 users have scrolled through Instagram. That's a lot of activity. However, I'm so curious, just like you and I, asking the same question. How many of those people have read a blog or watched a video that I've told them more about Jesus? With so much online activity, our church needs to employ digital evangelism methods. So what is digital evangelism? Digital evangelism is all about strategically using the internet, mobile and social media platforms to meet the needs of others and share the gospel with the online world. Making use of these digital means to further the gospel work means that more church members can be missionaries. That means you and I, everyone who holds and owns a smartphone today. It also means that our Adventist presence online will be stronger and more people will know about the saving love of Jesus Christ. Why do we evangelize? Why is it so important for us to evangelize? All believers, all who received Jesus as their personal savior, all believers are called to evangelize. Jesus gave us that command in Matthew 28, verse 19 to 20. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything that he had commanded us. And we should remember that he's with us always until the end of age. Jesus also directed us in Matthew chapter 4, verse 19, come, follow me, he said, and I will send you to fish for people. That's where we get the song, I will make you fishers of men. If you follow me, I will make you fishers of men, fishers of men, fishers of men. I will make you fishers of men if you follow me. Exactly. Jesus also called us to be obedient. In Isaiah chapter 6, verse 8, he says, then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And I said, here I am, send me. We're also called to serve God with our gifts and our talents in Romans chapter 10, verse 14. He says, how then can they call on the one if they have not believed in? How can they call on the one whom they have not believed in? How can they believe in one whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? We have a responsibility to evangelize. We evangelize for the glory of God. In Luke chapter 15, verse 7, it says, I tell you in the same way, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous persons who don't need to repent. For those of us who have already repented and received Christ as our savior, we have a job to do. We have a message to tell. We have our life stories, our testimonies, every single day where we see God's hand in our lives. Someone somewhere can benefit from that gift. That gift you might be taking for granted can help someone, can save their life today. We should make evangelism our lifestyle. In Romans chapter 1, verse 16, it says, for I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes, fast to the Jew and then to the Gentile. So let God use you to share His gospel. In Romans 12, 10, verse 17, consequently faith comes from hearing the message and the message is heard through the word about Christ. Amen? So be it our viewers today, as you're listening here, we have a big purpose, big purpose in this life, to reach out to you and to reach out to I. Someone somewhere needs to hear your voice. Someone somewhere needs to hear your story. Someone somewhere needs you to pick up your gadgets and share the word, share the love of Jesus. Someone somewhere needs to hear that Jesus loves them and he will save them. So why do we do digital evangelism? Here are some statistics that you may not have known. There are approximately 7 billion people in the world. Out of the 7 billion people, we have 4 billion people who use the internet. Out of the 4 billion people, we have 3 billion people who are on social media right now. 3 billion people. Almost half the world is on social media. Digital evangelism helps us to spread the gospel into the entire world at a rate that we could have never imagined. Moreover, it connects us to the younger generation who are navigating through a world that is saturated with digital connections. Recent statistics show that over 90% of young adults are using social media every single day. As disciples of Christ, we are called to meet them at their need. We're called to meet them where they are. So this means that we change the status quo. We're called to adapt to the new digital age. And this means often going on online platforms like we have today. I'm reaching out to an audience that is not here physically. It's there digitally. How amazing is technology when you're using it for Christ? Our Lord commands us in Matthew 28, verse 19 to 20. As I read earlier, his command is so clear we are called to reach every corner of the globe with a message of salvation. Sister Ellen White says in letter 20, 1893, let every worker in the master's vineyard study, plan, devise methods to reach the people where they are. Christ did not follow merely one method of reaching people. He used various ways. He sought to gain the attention of the multitude. This means that if we are to follow Christ and Christ is our savior, we too should employ various methods to share the gospel. So what's the objective of digital evangelism? Every single follower of Jesus Christ is called to be a missionary. Every single follower of Jesus Christ, you're called to serve. That's your first priority as a Christian. You're called to serve. Someone out there somewhere needs to hear your testimony. You are not saved so that you can sit in the pews on a Sabbath morning coming to seek God for yourself. You were saved so that you can go out there and tell someone about Jesus. Now out there can mean physically going out there, the traditional evangelism. But here we're talking about digital evangelism. We're talking about using our gadgets, the technology that we have around us to reach those who we never thought we could have reached on different platforms. For many of us when we hear the town missionary we think an emerging of traveling to a remote country, living without the usual comforts of home and learning a new tongue, tongue, a calling language. But that is not the only form of mission work. Digital evangelism is mission work that is intentionally sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ to people online and shares content that will encourage, inspire and point them to Christ. This means that we can use our everyday devices. We can use our laptops, we can use our smartphones, our tablets, our cameras to help someone know the hope that we have in Jesus. One of the most effective ways to use digital evangelism to reach more people for Christ is by creating and sharing content that resonates with a specific target audience. This could include compelling stories, inspiring testimonies or even educational videos or podcasts about Christian topics. How do we get involved? How do we get involved? You may be sitting at home today and saying, he's talking some sense. I may be a Christian. Yes, I've sat down on my laurels. I only come to Sabbath and the rest of the week I'm doing my own things. But what if every single day you'd be doing something small for God? You'd be sharing a compelling story. You'd be sharing a testimony. All of us put together that would be a tremendous feat for God. Number one, write down your project and stick to it. Your project is a God-given assignment. It's a task the Holy Spirit will equip you to complete. Your project or mission will be based on your gifts, the talents, the skillset, your experience in the same way that a traditional missionary chooses a country. Digital missionaries must focus on a specific area of focus like Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, you name it. We have various examples of digital evangelism mission projects, such as you can create an animated video series explaining the relevance of the prophecies in Daniel and Revelation. Ellen G. White's letter 151 1903 says, we may speak words of encouragement to those whom we meet. A word spoken in a season. How good is it? Souls are perishing for the lack of personal labor. So write a blog geared towards gaining victory over drug abuse, gaining victory over alcoholism, giving victory over pornography, gaining victory over gambling, etc. This can be the catalyst to change someone's life forever. You can launch an online weekly Bible study or a prayer study on video conferencing platform. You can start a podcast answering most of the popular questions that are asked on the Bible. You can manage a Facebook page sharing stories of how people came to know about Jesus Christ. You can share daily devotional thoughts through your WhatsApp. In fact, in 2018, I just come back from the world and I chosen to follow God again. I was on drugs. I was on alcohol. I had had a life of infidelity. But when I met Christ, everything changed. God gave me my testimony. That's all I had. And when I went on mission physically, I learned that I can also do it digitally. I could share. Those who were in church in Nairobi while I was in Nhipiedo could tell and see every single day what's happening on the ground because I was sharing on the digital platform. I was sharing the testimonies that are happening on the ground. I was sharing about people who are being saved. I was sharing about people being healed. I was sharing about people being led to Christ because I was on fire for Christ because I've seen what God can do in my life. And I didn't want to keep it for myself. And so I started something called the Mungubele ministry. Hashtag Mungubele. Hashtag Mungubele. Putting God first. Matthew 633 says, sick you first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. When you serve God, you don't know what God has in store for you. You don't know the gift that he has given you. It's only when you start doing it and start realizing people start saying, wow, you're really good at this. Try and do this next. Try and do this next. And you venture into new places that you never thought you'd venture into. I started to write messages on WhatsApp to WhatsApp groups. Many of them never wanted me to write them, but I continued sharing because I knew the power of the Word of God. I knew the power of sharing will save and touch someone's life somewhere. You could be online wherever you are. You could send this message. I'm sending it from Kenya right now. You could be watching me from around the globe somewhere in Tokyo. You could be in America. You could be in Iceland. You could be in the UK. You're hearing this Word right now. God can use you through digital evangelism to touch anyone in the world. All you have to do is give your heart to Christ. All you have to do is surrender to Him and let Him use you for His glory. Amen. You can record a fitness program on TikTok and share your journey through a spiritual, physical, and mental growth. Over the last 90 days, some of you may not see, but right now I'm looking very slim. But if you saw me before, I was quite fat. 110 kg fat. Yes, and I ventured into a fitness program because I wanted to be healthy. I wanted to be able to run around in the school competitions for my children, give them hope that my father can compete. And I wanted to be bright and smile. And even when I get to 40, I'll be saying, wow, I'm not going to have those diabetes, hypertension. They're not going to have anything on me. But little did I know that the thing that started on WhatsApp was soon about to expand and grow. And there was something new called TikTok. I had always wanted to do videos, but I never knew how. And as I joined the gym, I joined my coach. And he's here today, Coach Sakanis, and of Sakanis Fitness. You can find him on your TikTok at Sakanis Fitness. He's also a member of this church. He's also passionate about what he does. He loves fitness. He loves health. He loves well-being. And we just combined. Here I was Monday to Friday working, working, doing the workouts. And then one time I finished the workouts and something was just telling me, just record, just record. So coach started to record me. And words that I never even thought of started to come out and pour out. I started talking to the audience. Hey, good morning. Welcome to Fitness for Christ. Your host, Brian Kajwang. Hey, today, God has blessed us with his son. For those of you who are chickening out, get to the gym. Sort your mindset out and get inclined with Christ, who gives you this life, this body, this mind, this spirit for His glory. And I started to share. And I started to share. I've now done 90 days. I'm on my 100th day. I'm transformed. I'm now 77 kg. That means in 100 days I've lost 33 kg. That means I've transformed myself mentally because I had to turn up to the gym. That's step one. Whether it's raining, whether it's sunny, whether it's nobody there, I had to turn up and do something about my life. So we always say, hashtag, think about your life. Think about Christ. Put Him fast. Put Him on the platform and tell Him, God, I want to lose my weight so that You can use me for Your glory. Here I am today saying this testimony because someone, someone needs to hear it. I never thought that TikTok would be my next best thing. It's now another platform where I'm sharing. And I have followers who are following because of the message that you're sending. The message is Christ. That Christ loves you. No matter what you've done in your life, Christ loves you and He can use you for His glory. Christ qualifies the unqualified. I'm standing before you here today. I never even expected to be here. But Christ has qualified me for this. It is Him who is giving me the voice to speak. It is Him who's giving me the platform to speak. So I want to encourage you wherever you are, know that Jesus can change you from rugs to riches. He can change you if you give Him an opportunity. Moving on forward, we can also choose a prayer partner. Someone who will be praying for you. Because when you start your ministry, one of the things that you need to understand is that the devil is prowling around for someone to devour. He is coming to steal, kill and destroy. That's his only aim. And when you're on fire for Christ, you're a big target. If you are strong spiritually, God's going to target your family. He's going to look for a weak spot. He's going to target your friends. He's going to target you everywhere. So you need someone who's going to be praying for you. Your prayer partner will be the person who believes in what you do for God. Whatever God has called you to do, they should support you and be willing to stand with you in the gap. So this friend or relative will pray for you regularly, will encourage you to be, even if you're tempted to give up. There's been days that I've been tempted to give up. Writing on WhatsApp and I'd been writing it for three years and I reached somewhere and I was just like, okay, let me write to everyone that I need to take a break. So I wrote that and sent it all around and I kept quiet for like one day. I started getting calls. I started getting messages. People were saying, no, we are those people who don't talk on that group. But do you know the message you've been sharing has been inspiring us, has been feeding us spiritually? That's when I realized that this thing I'm doing is bigger than myself. I realized that digital evangelism is greater than you think it is. For as long as you have the word of God, for as long as you have God on your side, so many people can be touched. Praying is the highest work of a missionary. It brings us directly in contact with God. It equips us for the strength needed to do the task given by God. A prayer partner helps you to formulate specific prayers and plays a crucial role building on our faith. Next, you look at content strategy. That content you're taking out there needs to be structured. You need to think about it like a blueprint, a map for your work. This documented plan encompasses the planning, the creation, the publishing, distribution, management of feedback of your content. The only way you can improve is by getting feedback and by prayer. Number four, you can't stay and sit on your laurels saying, hey, I'm great at TikTok. That's all I'll do. I'm good at it. I don't need to learn anymore. I'm great at Facebook. I know the strategies. I know how to crack it. Instagram, hey, photos, selfies, I know. No. Whether you will be writing a blog, producing videos, preaching, recording a podcast, you need resources that will help you to get better at what you do. That's how you'll be more effective. And practice is everything. I'll give you a good example when I first stood up in front of the camera like this. My first ever time in this church is standing in front of a camera. And I didn't know who to look at. Whether to look at the audience in the camera and look to the people who are on the outside. But today, I'm comfortable. Today, through practice, I've been on this podium many times, and God has given me the grace to be able to speak to you confidently. So assuming that you know it all, he does the work of the Holy Spirit in you. The Holy Spirit in space for him to work in you. That's why we're saying in fitness for Christ, you're coming there for God, for your body to be the temple of the Holy Spirit. As the temple of the Holy Spirit, you allow Christ to come and sit in you. And when he comes and sits inside of you, he stars you to be something that you never thought you would be. So here are a few things that can enhance your proficiencies. You can subscribe to newsletters. You can sign up for webinars related to your interests. You can attend conferences. You can watch tutorials. You can join Facebook groups. You can ask other missionaries and ministry leaders for guidance. By taking these simple steps, you can be on your way to starting your work as a digital missionary. Anybody can be a digital missionary. Remember, this is not just a class project. This is not just a hobby. I don't do this for fun. I do this to let others people know that God is in me. To let other people know that Jesus can save you. To let other people know that he is alive. To let them know that when you surrender your heart to him, he can make you something that you never thought you'd be. So you have to be ever ready. We have to be ever ready to serve God. If you bear in mind the magnitude of your mission task and the significance of sticking to it, that's why I'm saying that the GMO is important for me. I learned how to be consistent. I learned how to be resilient in times of trials. I learned how to have discipline. That's why you have to keep going. That's why you have to keep learning. That's why you have to keep pushing. You can't sit on your laurels and say, hey, I've lost all this weight. I'm good now. I can go back to eating what I want to eat. I'll just go backwards. And before you know it, I'll say, ah, I'm the one who did it. And you'll forget that God gave you that opportunity. What are you doing with your opportunity today? What are you doing with the opportunity? I could have been like everybody else who is in the gym secretly working out. But there's an opportunity for you to share your struggles, for people to see you, to see you grow from when you were big to when you were small, and be able to say, yes, that's a serious journey he's done. Hey, God has been on his side. And every day he's glorifying God is telling us hashtag Mungumbela ministry. Yes, because it is God fast in everything. So even when you're doing your digital evangelism, you're doing it for God. It is not for yourself. When God lifts you up, it's not for yourself. It is for God. Christ has commissioned you to do this work. He will also empower you and provide all the means to be successful. My name is Brian Kajwang. I'm a servant leader to the most high God, Jesus Christ. In 2018, I founded the Mungumbela ministry after conquering my battle of 17 years of drugs and alcohol addiction. So my aim is to stay relentless for Christ and be a beacon of hope, reaching out to the lost. I also prepare the youths for the world and lead them to Jesus because it's only he who heals. It's only he who saves through this digital evangelism. So get involved beyond all limits and be a digital missionary for the Lord. Amen? Let us believe and pray. Father God, in the name of Jesus, as I've prayed and I've talked to you and talked to your audience, Lord, you've given me the voice to speak, to project, that which you wanted me to project about digital evangelism. Lord, it's all about you reaching out to those who are lost in the audience. Lord, there may be many like me who are lost in alcoholism, who are lost in drug abuse, who are lost in pornography, who are lost in so many vile things that the devil has captured us with today. Lord, many youths are focused on the world, they're focused on making money only. They've forgotten about you, they've forgotten about who you are and who you can be. They've forgotten that you are the one who holds the silver and the gold in this world. You're the one who provides above everything. When everything else falls and fails, you are still there. Lord Jesus, today you've used me as a vessel, a vessel to share with that person out there who is suffering, to tell them that when they lean on Jesus, everything can be saved. When they give Jesus their life, he'll transform you into something that you never thought you'd be. We all have a task to do in this world. We all have a task as believers to reach out to the lost, to reach out to somebody who doesn't know about Christ, to reach out to those who have fallen from grace and bring them back to Christ. Lead them back to the one who saves, to the one who heals. Lord Jesus, there are many who are struggling with anger issues. They're struggling with resentment. They're struggling with pains that they cannot solve. Maybe someone somewhere has hurt them, but Lord, today I'm seeking you to forgive them. I'm seeking you, O God, to cleanse them. I'm seeking you, O God, to reach out to them and touch their hearts, start their hearts not to be hardened, but to come and surrender it all to you, Jesus. Because if you can do it for me, you can do it for anybody. I'm just a vessel. I'm just a vessel telling another vessel how to fish and where to fish. Father God, Jesus, touch our lives. Help us to use these gadgets that we have for your glory. Help us to minister to those who need it, those who are around the world listening to this message. Jesus can do it for you. He's done it for me and he can do it for you. Surrender your hearts to him. Write in the chart your name and we can pray with you. Help us to help you. Lord Jesus, for everybody who reaches out, touch their lives. Change them. For all those who surrender, Lord Jesus, like myself, I know they need confidence right now to do so. Help them, oh God. Help them to be more courageous. Help them, oh God, to see that with you, everything is possible. We thank you, Lord Jesus, this evening that you've given us an opportunity to worship you, to serve you, to love you, and honor you with our lives. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. And so for those of you who would like to see my journey, you can follow us on TikTok at Mungoombele ministry. You can follow my coach at Sakane's fitness on TikTok, even on YouTube and Instagram. If you'd like to write to us, you can write to us at Mungoombele ministry at gmail.com. And we can also post those contacts on our chat. But I'd like to thank you. God bless you for listening today. Be blessed.