In the gospels, Jesus is recorded thirteen times telling his would-be disciples to follow him. In our present social media age, follow is usually combined with like. Yeah, it can be cringeworthy but building a community means keeping in touch with one another and having effective ways to get messages and stories out to those who opt in to being a part of the community like we have here through EMDC.
In November of 2020, EMDC Founder Steve Baughman and I began hosting a podcast designed to introduce our growing number of community members to the “people, places and possibilities” behind the global EMDC network. Season 1, launching on Wed Jan 13 2021, is designed to cover some past history of our conference (for newcomers) bringing our community up to date on our current online offerings as well as include interviews with specialists in app development, websites, ethnoarts, filmmaking, audio/radio, scripture gadgets, orality & storytelling, scripture engagement and culturally intelligent media.
Having already recorded half of our episodes, due to launch every two weeks via YouTube and on anchor.fm, I’ve been personally encouraged to have a chance to learn about other areas I wouldn’t normally know about (such as ethnoarts or orality/storytelling). I feel better rounded somehow, knowing that I can take elements of these other communication strategies to implement into my own cross-cultural filmmaking since an immediate connection wasn’t obvious to me previously.
We hope you enjoy following along on our journeys as we hear via audio and even see via video many of our longtime EMDC community members from around the world using their unique areas of expertise to see God’s work become more established to those who need it most.
