Resuming at the new level. First e-vangelism project(s) in RUnet

Well, I am getting back to this blog with the new wave of commitment to keep it alive. Sorry to all who were visiting it lately and saw just 10 months old postings. Some new blood comes into vein. Here is why this new surge of enthusiasm.

The latest news:

1. It finally happened! You might remember me posting the information about the general plan on how to develop e-vangelism projects in Russian language internet (RUnet). There I was mentioning:

The efforts should be made in four main directions:

• Creating the online resources focused on non-believers utilizing the Bridge Strategy; promoting them trough various online and offline activities;
• Creating the online resources focused on Christians who feel a call to serve in the web environment which help to train web missionaries plus organizing appropriate offline activities;
• Creating the informational/analytical online resources dedicated to help the churches and other Christian institutions to effectively jump into the internet ministry;
• Providing for the resources mentioned in 1-3 versions in other languages spoken in the countries of former USSR for easy downloading/printing/distributing training materials, testimonials,etc.

So, it looks like at least few of them are slowly coming into life.
Last week we officially announced the launch of http://www.evangelism.ru/ as a joint project with JesusChrist.ru. It is completely in Russian, though with lots of links on resources in English. Most of the materials are translated from Tony Whittaker's Online Evangelism - A guide to Web Outreach. Thank you so much, Tony! Of course, we do the adaptation of all materials to the realities of post-soviet countries and the local culture. Will be further reporting on the developments.

2. Last year just before Christmas I decided to start a blog on movies and the spiritual issues in modern cinematography named okolokino.ru (which means something like "beating about the movie", if it makes any sense in English). The concept is close to HollywoodJesus.com, although the scale is quite different :-)

Comments as usual are very welcome. Will try to keep all the interested informed.