The Ho Chi Minh International Church in Vietnam held a digital missionary training through Zoom on Jan. 22, 2022, with Pastor Byun SeongJun, Director of Digital Evangelism of the Northern Asia-Pacific Division (NSD) as lecturer. Pastor Kim JungTae, senior pastor of the church, said in his welcoming remarks, “In Vietnam, like other countries, it is difficult to hold face-to-face meetings due to the COVID-19 situation, making mission work in digital space all the more important. So, we planned this training session for church members.”
In the training session, joined by many youth and the Vietnam Mission Youth director, pastor Byun encouraged active mission work in online space. He emphasized that digital evangelism is truly needed throughout the General Conference, its Divisions, Unions, Conferences, and local churches. The training session dealt with digital evangelism’s goals, purposes, strategies, methods, and concrete plans for practical use. “Digital evangelism is about delivering mission content to one’s Bible seekers with a prayerful heart through social network services, which are based on the Internet. Even if you are afraid of face-to-face evangelism, you can easily do digital evangelism,” said Pastor Byun.
Pastor Kim JungTae said in his closing remarks, “Today’s session was very educational for me. I will do my best to activate digital evangelism in my field.” For this endeavor, the Vietnam Mission Ministerial Association and its Youth Department will continue to hold digital evangelism training sessions for adolescents and ministers in collaboration with the NSD Digital Evangelism department.
Recently elected as the Vietnam Mission’s ministerial secretary, Pastor Kim JungTae has been working as a Pioneer Mission Movement missionary in Vietnam. Pastor Kim now directs his mission work to helping Vietnamese Adventists in multiple ways: the Goat Project, the Children Scholarship Project, the Seminary Scholarship, the Literature Mission Project, and the Layperson Sponsorship.
Byun SeongJun, NSD Digital Evangelism Director