Digital Mission as the New Frontier - Simon Diercks
From the printing press to TikTok, how has technology continually expanded the reach of the Gospel? This session explains why social media, gaming platforms, and digital communities are not just entertainment, but real mission fields. It gives insight into how Jesus is already using digital missionaries to develop and connect digital evangelism, digital discipleship, and digital church across Europe.
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Simon Diercks is both a pastor and a nerd and is passionate about empowering digital missionaries worldwide and developing digital ways of mission. He has worked for 20 years in IT and was a pastor of a local church for eight years. For eight years now, he has been working with the German mission agency Allianz-Mission, leading the Unit Relations and kickstarting the Regional Unit Digital since 2023. There, he is responsible for digital evangelists, digital church planting and mission and AI. He is leading the Outpost Europe for two global networks, “The Church Digital” and “Indigitous”, and on the board of the Lausanne Movement in Germany. In 2024, he hosted the “European Digital Missionary Summit” by The Church Digital and is leading "Equipping Digital Missionaries" cohorts with participants from across Europe. Simon is married to Kerstin, and they have two children aged 9 and 14 years.
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