Mission 3.0 Navigating Digital Frontiers Together – 4 November 2023
Join us in the exploration of integrating faith and technology! Dive into the worlds of Metaverse, video games, VR Art, and Minecraft as we navigate the frontier of missions 3.0. Together, let's unveil a digital transformation journey and explore questions and challenges ahead. Find out with us!
Singapore Bible College, 9 – 15 Adam Road, S289886
Saturday, 4 November 2023 at 10.00am–4.00pm (Lunch Provided)
About the event
Date: Saturday, 4 November 2023
Time: 10.00am–4.00pm
Venue: Singapore Bible College, 9 – 15 Adam Road, S289886
Free Admission. Love offerings are welcome.
Programmes Schedule:
10.00am–10.30am Opening and Introduction
10.30am–12.00pm Incubator Session 1*
12.00pm–1.00pm Lunch
1.00pm–2.30pm Incubator Session 2*
2.30pm–3.30pm Reflection/Wrap up
3.30pm–4.00pm Continue conversation over tea/coffee
*Please note that for Incubator Session 1 and Session 2, you have the opportunity to customise your experience by selecting one tube for each session. This means you’ll have two different tubes to attend in total, and you can choose the topics that align best with your interests and preferences.
Incubator Session 1 and Session 2 Topics:
Tube 1: Intro to Church VR
Tube 2: Fun and Video Games: A Waste of Time, or the Key to Connection?
Tube 3: Immersing in the Word through VR Art
Tube 4: Discipling in Minecraft for AlphaGen and GenZ
Tube 5: From Zero to #Hack: A Local Church’s Digital Transformation Journey
Tube 6: AI and Ethics
Tube 7: Defining Your Church/Movement’s Digital Strategy
Details for each workshop:
Intro Note: Exploring Missional Frontiers in the Metaverse
By Dr Calvin Chong
This opening session introduces the Metaverse Roadmap 2007, which helps us to situate ministry in virtually enhanced physical realities and physically persistent virtual worlds.
Tube 1: Intro to Church VR
By Christopher Magendran and Mervyn Lee
Introductory hands-on session/lab on creating in the Metaverse (Spatial.io), covering:
1. Personalised avatars
2. Environments/Worlds
3. Creating 3D objects for non-3D artists using various techniques, such as freeform drawing in Multibrush and AI rendering with Luma AI
4. Importing and modifying assets from Sketchfab
5. Web3/NFT integration and other interoperability features
6. Navigating the Metaverse and Spatial.io on laptops, phones, and headsets
Notes for this workshop:
1. Bring your laptop and mobile phone for co-creation labs. A VR headset is a plus.
2. Ensure participants have their own internet connection, preferably Wi-Fi.
Tube 2: Fun and Video Games: A Waste of Time, or the Key to Connection?
By Lang Tien
We, Christians, have a reputation for being too ‘serious’. The Church’s negative response to the rise of video gaming as a mainstream hobby lends some credence to this perception. Can video games be redeemed? If so, can we harness the power of good old fun to foster deeper connections with others in the name of Jesus?
Tube 3: Immersing in the Word through VR Art
By Patrick Bezalel
Patrick will be sharing about exploring VR spaces for art and community building, as well as how the Gospel can be spread by engaging in new art spaces for the nextgen.
Tube 4: Discipling in Minecraft for AlphaGen and GenZ
By Lily Chia
Lily will share how a Christian Minecraft Server has been created to engage the AlphaGen and GenZ to build community in the metaverse and to grow in the Word of God together through playing!
Tube 5: From Zero to #Hack: A Local Church’s Digital Transformation Journey
By Johnny Lim and Solomon Sim
Dive into the inspiring journey of a 138-year-old church as they remarkably bootstrap a hackathon in their first year of setting up a digital ministry. Join Digital Wesley and Indigitous as they share invaluable insights from their incredible partnership to organize #HACK2023. Be inspired to become digital champions within your own church, forging pathways for Kingdom Impact. Additionally, you’ll have the opportunity to actively engage in a hands-on hackathon experience and learn how real-world problems can be solved through technology. Discover the power of leveraging hackathons to spark communities to drive innovation for the Gospel.
Tube 6: AI and Ethics
By Jason Tamara Widjaja
This session will explore ethical risks and issues related to the rising use of AI in society and Church. There will be a presentation highlighting potential applications of AI in the Church, and risks and ethical issues in both traditional AI and more recently generative AI. This will be followed by a facilitated Q&A session and discussion, with the goal to equip church leaders with the knowledge and tools to make wise and informed decisions about AI as it increases in prominence.
Tube 7: Defining Your Church/Movement’s Digital Strategy
By David Mak
We all see that need to go digital, but what exactly is a “Digital Strategy”? Where can we begin to make sure we start well to potentially end well? This workshop teaches the framework to design the right pathway(s) forward to help Church, movements or organisations to use digital effectively in ministry.
Speaker(s) / Trainer(s)
Dr Calvin Chong | Professor of Practical Theology at Singapore Bible College
Intro Note: Exploring Missional Frontiers in the Metaverse
Dr Calvin Chong, Professor of Practical Theology at Singapore Bible College, has been a faculty member since 1995. He has expertise in digital communications and its impact on church and society, with notable publications on the subject. He recently supervised student projects on VR church and art therapy in AR/MR/VR spaces. Additionally, Dr Chong is involved in various boards and serves on the leadership team at Covenant Community Methodist Church.
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