A message with flavor.

Written by Megan Thursday, 22 July 2010 08:23

Hello from one of the new and bright eyed student of the SFM10! Let me first start of this first entry by promising much more colorful and vibrant blogs for you, our dedicated reader, from here on out. A blog with pictures, and if you're lucky, videos is our promise to you. This is a media school, after all.

The SFM is in full force and we are learning much with everyday that passes. The last two weeks were focused on how to communicate cross culturally in a manner that will produce long lasting fruit. You see, missions is like this blog I'm realizing. Sure, you can try to communicated by throwing information people's way, but that doesn't mean that they are going to a.) read it or b.) understand it. BUT, just like this blog, you add some more detail and effort (say, audio or visuals for example) and it's just more strategic. I think the more effort we put into our message, the more people will understand its worth. You need to know your audience and for lack of better terms, give them what they want/can grasp. As we communicate contextually, guaranteed more people will be interested and more people will understand the truth. Our job as followers of Christ is to not just toss information to the world, hoping that they'll catch it, but to communicate. So how do we know if we have actually communicated? Well, as the great Calvin Conkey put it, (our first speaker and co-founder of Create) "Communication brings understanding." So here's to lots more projects and even more lectures all in the name of learning how to communicate. Because the world needs to understand that Christ is not a foreigner's God. There's a world out there that needs to know our Savior as their own. Christ came for all and it is our determination to learn how to make this known, heard, and seen.

"And thus I aspired to preach the gospel not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build on another man's foundation; but as it is written, THEY WHO HAD NO NEWS OF HIM WILL SEE, AND THEY WHO HAVE NOT HEARD SHALL UNDERSTAND." Romans 5:20-21

About the picture: A group of my fellow students and some of the staff illustrating their plan on how to effectively reach an unreached people group using 2 different media tools.

 The SFM is in full force and we are learning much with everyday that passes. The last two weeks were focused on how to communicate cross culturally in a manner that will produce long lasting fruit. You see, missions is like this blog I'm realizing. Sure, you can try to communicated by throwing information people's way, but that doesn't mean that they are going to a.) read it or b.) understand it. BUT, just like this blog, you add some more detail and effort (say, audio or visuals for example) and it's just more strategic. I think the more effort we put into our message, the more people will understand its worth. You need to know your audience and for lack of better terms, give them what they want/can grasp. As we communicate contextually, guaranteed more people will be interested and more people will understand the truth. Our job as followers of Christ is to not just toss information to the world, hoping that they'll catch it, but to communicate. So how do we know if we have actually communicated? Well, as the great Calvin Conkey put it, (our first speaker and co-founder of Create) "Communication brings understanding." So here's to lots more projects and even more lectures all in the name of learning how to communicate. Because the world needs to understand that Christ is not a foreigner's God. There's a world out there that needs to know our Savior as their own. Christ came for all and it is our determination to learn how to make this known, heard, and seen.

"And thus I aspired to preach the gospel not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build on another man's foundation; but as it is written, THEY WHO HAD NO NEWS OF HIM WILL SEE, AND THEY WHO HAVE NOT HEARD SHALL UNDERSTAND." Romans 5:20-21

About the picture: A group of my fellow students and some of the staff illustrating their plan on how to effectively reach an unreached people group using 2 different media tools.