Engeging Oral People with Digital Media

Digital media and orality go hand in hand. In this talk, Bill Snider explains how social media affects orality, using two interesting examples. Jonah Jala, in her presentation, shows how disciple-making can happen in a digital world, offering practical insights on how it works today.

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Bill and Kim founded and continue to direct Asia Pacific Media, launching the ministry in 1988 in Manila. They also served as Area Directors of Assemblies of God personnel in Southeast Asia from 1998-2017. Asia Pacific Media empowers Christian leaders in Asia and the Pacific Islands to use and produce media for spreading the Gospel. Bill and Kim have two sons, five grandsons, and a granddaughter.

Jonah serves as the Global Engagements Lead for Indigitous. She is based in the Philippines and came to Christ when she was a freshman through a campus ministry. In our connected and digital world, Indigitous is a global movement taking the gospel to new people, new places, and new spaces. It means indigenous + digital and engages Christians to challenge what that means in their place and space then to champion it.

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