This Orlando Sentinel article, "'Religion Surfers' look for God on the Web" is also titled, "Find God on Google: "Religion surfers" use search engines to find answers about God, spirituality," according to the HTML title tag on the article's web page:
An estimated 2 million people a day look for God on Google.
Seeking spiritual guidance through search engines is so popular these days that a legion of online missionaries is being assembled in Orlando to answer the cyber-prayers.
Global Media Outreach — a ministry of Orlando-based Campus Crusade for Christ International — has formed a partnership with Northland, A Church Distributed, in Longwood to recruit and train 5,000 online missionaries by 2010.
... Global Media has more than 90 Web sites aimed at search-engine seekers of God. Type in a query about Jesus, and WhoIsJesus-Really.com shows up in the results. Type in a question about God's existence and Jesus2020.com shows up as a sponsored link.
... At the bottom of each Web site is a feedback form that asks for names, e-mail addresses and a space for comments and questions. About 30,000 people a day fill out that form and press the send button, Beeber said.
Those contacts and comments are forwarded to one of the Global Media's 2,900 online missionaries trained to answer questions of faith — or refer to someone who can.
Seeking spiritual guidance through search engines is so popular these days that a legion of online missionaries is being assembled in Orlando to answer the cyber-prayers.
Global Media Outreach — a ministry of Orlando-based Campus Crusade for Christ International — has formed a partnership with Northland, A Church Distributed, in Longwood to recruit and train 5,000 online missionaries by 2010.
... Global Media has more than 90 Web sites aimed at search-engine seekers of God. Type in a query about Jesus, and WhoIsJesus-Really.com shows up in the results. Type in a question about God's existence and Jesus2020.com shows up as a sponsored link.
... At the bottom of each Web site is a feedback form that asks for names, e-mail addresses and a space for comments and questions. About 30,000 people a day fill out that form and press the send button, Beeber said.
Those contacts and comments are forwarded to one of the Global Media's 2,900 online missionaries trained to answer questions of faith — or refer to someone who can.
Read the full article to learn more about the partnership and the impact that they hope to achieve.
// DJ Chuang, Director at Leadership Network
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