Mobile Advance has been putting together a series of How-To articles for doing mobile ministry. Here’s a snippet of How-To #7: Obtaining Video for Mobile Ministry:

…Watch, and get copies of the videos people in your host culture are already watching on their phones. This can help in several ways:

• You’ll get a better sense of what people like and are interested in. This will help you as you look for, or create your own, outreach media. You can also learn a lot about a people by examining what media they choose to watch and have on their phones.
• You may discover some videos that they are already watching that you can use redemptively
• You’ll learn how to transfer video between phones via Bluetooth.
• You and your contacts will become used to watching and sharing media with each other, making it much more natural when you start sharing ministry videos with them.
• The amount of local media on your phone will obscure and reduce the impact of having ministry media on your phone should authorities take an interest in what you’re doing.

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