1. 21st Century Tools For Evangelism Reaching the Technotribe New Jersey February 2012

2. Bucket List

3. NAD 2013 Course Position

4. Relative Headway

5. l Million107.1 years 2 Million14.7 years 3 Million7.9 years 4 Million5.1 years 5 Million3.3 years 6 Million2.7 years 7 Million2.3 years 8 Million2.4 years 9 Million2.3 years 10 Million2.2 years 11 Million1.4 years 12 Million1.3 years 13 Million1.5 years 14 Million1.9 years 15 Million1.9 years Membership Growth in the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination Growth

6. Ratio H eadway

7. Diversity H eadway

8. Health Message H eadway

9. Missional Congregations H eadway

10. Real Headway

11. Aging 58 Median Age of Church member 38 Median Age of General Population 18 Median Age of World Population S lippage

12. Aging S lippage

13. Members live away from the General Population 2/3 of the local churches in the U.S. are located where only 20% of the population lives ¼ of the congregations are in metropolitan areas — where 80% of Americans live. S lippage

14. Members live away from the General Population S lippage

15. Dropouts Mostly Young Adults S lippage 2 to 1

16. Immigration S lippage Mission Echo Effect Immigration Challenges Second Gen Dropout

17. What’s going to happen? H eading? Rural congregations will decline Tithe will decline City churches may decline unless…

18. H eading? The Technotribe

20. Culture Shock The Technotribe

21. Culture Shock

22. The Technotribe Long Distance Relationships and short distance strangers

23. The Technotribe Long Distance Relationships and short distance strangers Cliquishness Culture Shock

24. The Technotribe Long Distance Relationships and short distance strangers Cliquishness Fickle (Commitment impaired) Culture Shock

25. The Technotribe Long Distance Relationships and short distance strangers Cliquishness Fickle Preoccupied Culture Shock

26. The Technotribe Long Distance Relationships and short distance strangers Cliquishness Fickle Preoccupied Organizational Disrespect Culture Shock

27. The Technotribe Long Distance Relationships and short distance strangers Cliquishness Fickle Preoccupied Organizational Disrespect Post Denominational Culture Shock

28. Missiology

29. “Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people.” -Revelation14:6 Missiology

30. Translating the Gospel Acts 2:5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking in his own language… Missiology

31. …Utterly amazed, they asked: "Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native language? … Translating the Gospel Missiology

32. Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene… Translating the Gospel Missiology

33. … visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues! -Acts 2:5-11 Translating the Gospel Missiology

35. Translating the Gospel For The Technotribe

36. Lost in Translation

37. “We take your bags and send them in all directions” -Copenhagen airline Lost in Translation

38. “The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.” -Bucharest hotel lobby Lost in Translation

39. “Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.” -Hong Kong dentist Lost in Translation

40. “English well talking. Here speeching American.” -Majorcan shop entrance Lost in Translation

41. “Order your summers suit. Because in big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.” -Rhodes tailor's shop Lost in Translation

42. Stepping Into the Culture of the Technotribe

43. Technoculture Wired for Relationships Relationally Challenged Long Distance Relationships and short distance strangers Cliquishness

44. Responsive Fickle Technoculture

45. Not confined by Space and or Time Preoccupied Technoculture

46. Organizing without Organization Organizational Disrespect Technoculture

47. Open your church up to everyone Post Denominationalism Previous Options You are either with us or against us Current Options Mutual respect Technoculture

48. What Can We As Individuals Do?

49. What can we do? As Individuals Read up on Millennials

50. What can we do? As Individuals Find a Young Adult Techie Mentor (Dave Gemmell)

51. What can we do? As Individuals Stalk all of your Young Adults on Facebook (Eileen Gemmell)

52. What can we do? As Individuals Stalk all of your Young Adults on Facebook (Eileen Gemmell)

53. What can we do? As Individuals Stalk all of your Young Adults on Facebook (Eileen Gemmell)

54. What can we do? As Individuals Text your Young Adults (Ann Roda)

55. What can we do? As Individuals

56. What can we do? As Individuals Tweet/Follow (Jose Rojas)

57. What can we do? As Individuals

58. What can we do? As Individuals Take young adults out to decaf, lunch, or supper, or something. (Allan Martin, Matthew Gamble, Marcel Pichot, Dave Gemmell)

60. What can we do? As Individuals Be Real (Everyone)

61. What Can We As Congregations Do?

62. What can we do? As a Congregation Disciple Young Adults (Matt Gamble)

63. What can we do? As a Congregation Have Young Adults read Reboot (Matt Gamble)

64. What can we do? As a Congregation Have Young Adults read GodEncounters (Allan Martin, Shayna Bailey)

65. What can we do? As a Congregation Eat together! Food Friendzy/Living Room Session/Breakfast Club/Home Cooking (Dave Gemmell, Allan Martin, Mike Stevenson, Paul Eagan, Jim Moon)

66. What can we do? As a Congregation Use Video Discussion starters from PDVD15 (Allan Martin)

67. What can we do? As a Congregation Say ‘yes’ when Young Adults come up with a hair brained idea (Rajeev Sigamony)

68. What can we do? As a Congregation Make sure that young adults serve on leadership team in strategic areas of leadership (Kumar Dixit, Ryan Bell)

69. What can we do? As a Congregation Have Young Adults tell their story with film/video/music/arts (Allan Martin, Ryan Jones, Sam McGee)

70. What can we do? As a Congregation Hold a retreat with Young Adults (Allan Martin, Ryan Jones)

71. What can we do? As a Congregation Encourage multitasking in church. (Leonard Sweet, Delwin Finch, Dave Gemmell,)

72. What can we do? As a Congregation Hook up Young Adults with senior mentors (Immanuel)

73. What can we do? As a Congregation Hold a ‘GodEnounters’ in your area (Allan Martin)

74. What can we do? As a Congregation Plant a new church. (Tara VinCross, Andres Flores)

75. What can we do? As a Congregation Get your church certified as a COR church (Ron Whitehead)

76. What can we do? As a Congregation Get your church certified as a COR church (Ron Whitehead)

77. dave.gemmell@nad.adventist.org