Date of Award

4-2022

Document Type

Project Portfolio

Degree Name

Doctor of Ministry (DMin)

Department

Seminary

First Advisor

Aaron Friesen, PhD

Second Advisor

H. Colleen Butcher, DMin

Third Advisor

Leonard I. Sweet, PhD

Abstract

The proliferation of digital technology provides churches with more paths for reaching a broader audience to facilitate and foster spiritual engagement across members and non-members of the church.

Digital technology brings a significant change in how we communicate and commune. The digital revolution is opening doors for quick forms of communication, interaction, and response. Digital technology provides semiotic resources through digital platforms, websites, social media, videos, and images which facilitate and foster multimodal communication. These digital technology semiotic resources offer a dimension of technology that is still underutilized in many sectors of life, including the church.

The ministry context of this project focuses on the proliferation of digital technology, which provides churches with more paths for reaching a broader audience to facilitate and foster spiritual engagement and communication across members and non-members of the church. The main objective of this project ("The Virtual Sanctuary") aims to improve digital discipleship and foster a more robust digital community of fellowship and communication in the 21st-century church.

This project, "The Virtual Sanctuary" website, is an interdisciplinary multimedia platform that is solution-based and addresses the opportunity to close the digital technology gap in churches. The key objective of this project is to deliver a multimedia platform that is a discipleship model for using digital interactive content to foster and facilitate spiritual engagement in churches. "The Virtual Sanctuary" website benefits church leaders with tips, best practices, resources, marketing strategies, and training for best connecting the church through digital technology in several ways but not limited to 1) being all-inclusive and supporting various learning types (visual, auditory and kinesthetic), 2) increasing engagement and providing more variety of digital content for users, 3) housing and incorporating training materials for E-learning content including webinars, podcasts, training videos, asynchronous/synchronous online courses, and digital slide-based courses.

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