Gospel Outreach with Media

GOWM conferences have been visited from more than 140 countries around the world.
People participating while this 2021 conference is open for discussion are from these countries.

GOWM online conferences are designed for anyone interested in these three intertwining motifs: the Gospel, Outreach, and Media. By each we mean...

Gospel

God rescued us and all the world from sin and eternal death through the redemptive work of His Son Jesus Christ.

Outreach

Our Lord commands us to take this message beyond our circles of Christian believers out to the world of those who do not have saving faith in Christ.

Media

We seek to use God's gifts of media and technology to carry this message to large audiences in the United States and around the world.

Conference sessions

The Message

The Gospel for Today – and Always by Mark Harstad (1948-2015)

The Gospel in Glass

Introduction to Devotional Stained Glass by Robert Koester (Rapid City, South Dakota USA)

The "Way of the Cross" Old Main Commemorative Window by Jake Krier (St. Peter, Minnesota USA)

Liturgical Stained Glass – the Process by Jonathan Mayer (Cochrane, Wisconsin USA)

Virtual Reality Emerging

My Confirmation Class in VR by Rob Guenther (New Ulm, Minnesota USA)

XR for XRistos - Students Taming Extended Reality for the Lord by Tom Kuster (New Ulm, Minnesota USA)

VR and Various Applications to the Gospel Ministry by Dominick Olson (Rochester, Minnesota USA)

VR Ventures in Bethany's Education Program by Carrie Pfeifer (Mankato, Minnesota USA)

The Internet as Blessing

(GERMAN & ENGLISH) Frauen- und Kinderarbeit virtuell (Women’s Ministry and Children’s Teaching by Virtual Means) by Claudia Schröter (Wangen im Allgäu, Germany)

Using Short Videos in Teaching Young People by Petr Krakora (Plzen, Czechia)

Digital Front Page Evangelism by Dave Malnes (Meridian, Idaho USA)

Great Was the Company of Those that Published It by Bryan Wolfmueller (Round Rock, Texas USA)

Creative Visual Arts

The First Time I Painted Jesus by William Bukowski (Mankato, Minnesota USA)

Considering Race in Media Production by Jessica Gehrke (Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA)

My Pathway to Christian Screenwriting by Elli Gifferson (Hutchinson, Minnesota USA)

Eternity in Movies – Seeing and Using Redemption Analogies by David Thompson (Lombard, Illinois USA)

Chips and Toys

The Gospel on an African Phone by Rosie Bunnow (Appleton, Wisconsin USA)

Toys for Outreach by Brian Klebig (Mankato, Minnesota, USA)

General Comments

Post comments and suggestions on the entire Conference here by Conference Coordinators (Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, Minnesota USA)

How to participate in the conference

Participation is free. Please consider helping to defray conference costs. Learn how here.
Scan the list of presentations above. Note those of special interest to you.
To "attend" a session, just click on the title, and you will be taken to the presentation. It may involve text, images, audio, video, or combinations of these.
We encourage you to join the discussion. At the bottom of each presentation page, you will find a place for posting comments, questions, and suggestions. Presenters will be monitoring the discussion, and may answer your question or respond to your comment.
We especially hope that students (high school, college, and seminary) will participate actively in the discussion. Of course, anyone else may do so too.
If you are posting questions/comments, please glance through previous posts to determine if that question has been asked before.
Note the location names at the very top of each page. Clicking on a name will take you directly to that location.
Return to the conference as often as you wish to follow the discussions.
Remember that there may be people attending this conference for whom English is not their first language. Each page has a link enabling translation into many languages.

The Conference will be closed to further postings after three weeks, on Monday, November 8. After the Conference closes, the presentations and discussions will be permanently archived for you to read at any time.

Send comments on the overall conference, or problems, to the conference coordinators.

The usual disclaimers

Please ask questions that are relevant to the papers and refrain from developing a personal topic or agenda. We expect participants to remain cordial. The coordinators of the conference retain the right to delete any posts considered inappropriate. Anonymous inflammatory posts will be deleted.
This conference is being conducted "outside of fellowship" - that is, presenters are not necessarily members of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS), or the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), or the Conference of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (CELC). We are seeking presenters with expertise and experience that will help accomplish the goals of the conference, as stated above, and of the Christ in Media Institute, the conference host.
Contributors to the conference are solely responsible for the information they provide. The Christ in Media Institute and Bethany Lutheran College cannot be responsible for nor can we attest to the accuracy or efficacy of the information others provide.

The 2021 Gospel Outreach with Media Conference

GOWM conferences have been visited from more than 140 countries around the world. People participating while this 2021 conference is open for discussion are from these countries.