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Pastors and Churches Embrace Social Media Orange County Edition Vol. 24, No. 7 July 2013 www.christianexaminer.com Movies Education Phil Cooke New documentary Study shows many charter Should we support FREE chronicles trials and schools fare no better ‘Christian’ projects tragedies of Laurie, others than public schools from Hollywood? page 2 page 3 page 4 Pastors and churches embrace social media By Lori Arnold VENTURA — Criticscs whowho say churcheschurches are stodgy, irrelevant and outout of touch, may want to think again, especially whenwhen it comes to thethe fastfast-- paced advances of sociall media.media. According to a June surveysurvey by Barna Group,Group, 21 percent of churches aree using Twitter, while 7070 per- cent have adopted Facebookbook as a communication re-re- source. Those numbers refl ect a signifi cant change Evelyn Komuntale, founder of Outreach to Africa, hugs children at the Paul Devlin over just two years ago,, whenwhen 1414 percentpercent of Academy, which the ministry operates. churches reported usingg Twitter and 57 percent tapping into Facebook.cebook. It’s not just savvy youngng peoplepeople fu- Royal ambassador eling the connection foror churches,churches, the survey found. Twitteritter usage among clergy was a percentagepercentage Former princess ministers in point higher on Twitterr (23(23 per- cent), but lagged a few popointsints (66 impoverished Ugandan village percent) for Facebook. Pastoral use over that time was mostmost sig- By Lori Arnold would ultimately order that his nifi cant for Twitter withth a 77 granddaughter be turned over to percent increase, whilee Face- IRVINE — At 6 years old Evelyn the father, King Kituku forced his book connections increasedreased Komuntale suddenly found herself daughter to hide young Evelyn by 12 percent. sleeping on the fl oor of a primitive across the border in neighbor- In addition, more thanan one hut, far removed from all family ing Uganda. After registering her in fi ve (22 percent) havehave a and the royal treatment she knew daughter in public school, her personal blog. as the granddaughter of an African mother returned to the DCR. “Social media is hereere to king. “I experienced what an orphan stay, especially as youngerounger She landed there in the 1960s—a feels like,” Komuntale said of her leaders come to be senioror pas-pas- tiny victim of the growing political childhood. “I didn’t have my mom. tors,” said David Kinnaman,naman, unrest in her native Democratic I didn’t have my dad. I didn’t have president of Barna Groupoup andand Republic of the Congo—after her a rich family. I was living in a village. the director of the Barnarna studystudy father, a Belgian Christian serving There I was, from a nice bed with on social media. there on a foreign-service assign- pillows and everything to mud and Just as the general population,population, ment, was forced to leave because grass-thatched huts sleeping on the age and resources tend to playplay a fac-fac- of the turmoil. His attempt to bring fl oor, sharing the mosquito net with tor in who uses social mediaedia in churchchurch-- his wife and daughter back with a few other kids. It was pathetic, but es. Forty-four percent ofof churches thatthat him was rebuffed by his powerful God was training me.” have an average attendancedance of at least father-in-law. Afraid the Belgium government See OUTREACH, page 7 See SOCIALCIAL MEDIA,MEDIA, pagepage 8 Biola unveils replica of iconic ‘Jesus Saves’ sign LA MIRADA — Nearly 80 years in downtown Los Angeles, topped going to want to congregate around after the Bible Institute of Los An- by a working “Jesus Saves” sign— to see it.” geles lighted its iconic neon “Je- will be displayed on the west face Even after Biola moved to La Mi- sus Saves” sign over its downtown of Biola’s parking structure. Part of rada in 1959, the signs remained building, the message has been vi- the new installation was paid for by on the downtown building. Thir- sually resurrected at its La Mirada members of this year’s graduating ty years later, pastor Gene Scott campus. class. bought the two signs and moved “Biola University is making a The original sign was constructed them to the Los Angeles Univer- statement about how central that in 1935, thanks to a donation by a sity Cathedral, formerly the United message still is to our mission,” said Biola radio listener from Riverside. Artists Theatre. In 2011, one of the President Barry H. Corey. “As long It was lit in a public ceremony that signs was moved to the Faith Cen- as Biola has existed and will exist, drew 3,000 people to the school on ter in Glendale, pastored by Scott’s proclaiming ‘Jesus Saves’ will be Feb. 17, 1935. Several years later a wife. The other sign currently re- central to who we are.” second sign was added to the build- mains in downtown L.A., on top of Biola, as the university has been ing, located at Sixth and Hope the building that is soon to open as called since before it moved away streets. the Ace Hotel. from the downtown, unveiled a “It is such an iconic symbol of our replica of one of its historic signs heritage and history, said Irene Neller, A mural on the side of the parking during its May undergraduate com- vice president of university communi- structure at Biola University features mencement ceremony. cations and marketing. “People who a photo of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles at its former location at According to university offi cials, haven’t been connected with Biola in Sixth and Hope streets in downtown. the replica—part of an installment 20 or 30 years (will) want to come back Adoring the mural is a reproduction that includes a giant mesh photo- and see it. It’s going to be one of those of the school’s iconic “Jesus Saves” graph of Biola’s original building landmarks on campus that people are sign, which was fi rst installed in 1935. For information about advertising, subscriptions, or bulk delivery, please call 1-800-326-0795 2 • CHRISTIAN EXAMINER • July 2013 OC www.christianexaminer.com Hopeful Hearts New documentary chronicles trials and tragedies of Laurie, Vujicic and Camp By Lori Arnold I’m willing to do because I know by to hurting people you will never telling my story it builds a bridge to lack an audience. I’ve discovered RIVERSIDE — Nearly fi ve years someone else.” that personally in so many ways.” after losing his oldest son, Christo- The documentary was originally Using fi lm as a medium often pher, in a solo freeway crash in Riv- planned as a companion to his has a more compelling draw than erside, evangelist Greg Laurie is re- earlier book by the same name, books, said Laurie, whose previous leasing “Hope for Hurting Hearts,” a work he describes as dispatches biographical fi lm “Lost Boy: The a documentary on his journey. from the valley. Next Chapter,” has earned eight Produced by New Revolution “This book was written in the im- international fi lm festival awards. Entertainment and Lifeway Films, mediate aftermath of my son going “It touches you and impacts and narrated by Dr. James Dobson, to heaven,” said Laurie, founder you in a different way because it’s the documentary also features of Harvest Christian Fellowship, visual, it includes powerful music, insights from Laurie’s wife, Cathe, Harvest Crusades and Harvest of course, the imagery and the and intimate glimpses into the America. “I wanted to chronicle story itself,” he said. “When its all struggles of fellow evangelist Nick what I was experiencing as close said and done what people really Vujicic, who was born with limbs, as I could to real time because it want to hear is an inspiring story. and musician Jeremy Camp, who was my hope that this would be a “You can have all of the special ef- Greg and Cathe Laurie share about their journey of grief in loss in the new lost his fi rst wife to cancer. tool that could be placed in the fects you want, but if the story isn’t documentary “Hope for Hurting Hearts.” The fi lm also explores the stories of “To go back and go step-by-step hands of a person who has lost a good, it isn’t really going to go any- evangelist Nick Vujicic and musician Jeremy Camp. through it and relive it again is al- loved one or had some dramatic where. What’s important about this centers on the grief he endured af- In the limelight ways painful even to this present situation and say to them, ‘Don’t story is it’s true. These are four true ter the loss of his fi rst wife, Melissa, Laurie admits being a public day,” Laurie said of shooting the give up hope.’” stories of people that have dealt to ovarian cancer at the age of 21. fi gure dealing with grief has been documentary. “It’s not something Early on in the process of doing with and are dealing with pain.” They had been married not quite a mixed bag as he’s dealt with well- I enjoy doing, but it’s something the documentary, Laurie’s col- four months when she passed away. meaning but often hurtful com- laborator, Dwight Thompson Jr., Hope in heartbreak “It was very touching,” Laurie ments from complete strangers. At Find us online at suggested adding the stories of Although Laurie had worked said of the musician’s narrative.” the same time, he said his family others who overcame suffering or with both Vujicic and Camp It’s a beautiful love story with a has benefi ted from “thousands and grief.
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