A handful of students even e-mailed the team to ask more questions about who Jesus was. In the few hours that their ad was live on Facebook 771 students clicked on the link to find out more about Christ. Facebook allows you to target a specific audience, so they targeted college aged students in the town they were in since they were spending most of their time on a college campus. They created a quick Facebook advertisement encouraging people to click to find out more about Jesus. They put up a picture of the team with a little bit about them and their contact info. While they were there, they set up a simple website using Weebly. 'In the summer of 2011, my husband took a few guys to a closed Middle Eastern country to help fulfill the Great Commission.

Here's a little exerpt from a book ( Reach How to Use your Social Media Influence for the Glory of God) my friend and I wrote about the potential of social media to reach people for Christ. But with that same amount of money you can reach thousands if not millions. It just takes a little bit of creative thinking of how to use it. Did you know that the entire world has access to the internet? Did you know that India has more mobile phone (and access to facebook) than they do toilets! It may cost 2,500 to fly over to India and then I may only get to share the gospel with a handful of people. I believe facebook is one of the greatest tools given to any generation to reach people for Christ.

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