Overview
On February 13, 2019, 41 people representing 29 organizations gathered in a video conference to learn how chatbots are being used in two ministry contexts to foster on-the-ground movements (DMM, CPM). Levi presented a 30-minute case study from the Middle East and AJ gave a 10-minute case study from Asia followed by Q & A. Participants were given the opportunity to share their interest in this topic.
Here is the recorded session. The notes and slide decks are available below.
Middle East Case Study (download Chatbots in M2DMM Context)
- Chatbots: a program that simulates interactive human conversation
- DMM: Disciple Making Movements
- Knowing Jesus Project
- Finding “Cornelius” people to start discovery groups
- Change spiritual atmosphere
- DMM Training ground to multiply
- Creating a bot to sort through people/Create different categories
- Funnel:
- Advertisements to everyone-Curious
- Messenger Bible Studies with Betty (the Bot)-Seeker
- Online conversations with human-Sharer
- Personal contact with group coach-Cornelius
- Discovery Bible Study Groups
- Ads/Facebook Page–Welcome…invite them to a choice of content
- Stats
- 2372 subscribers
- 1012 people finish intro content
- 249 completed 7 days
- Currently 194 seekers and 69 sharers
- Online responder has made notes about 129 people/5%
- Significant conversations by bot with 80 people
- 1 possible Cornelius in person
- Cornelius success story? This guy is connecting people with DBS
- Challenges
- Bots don’t disciple people: tool to focus on people
- Bot is distracting subscribers from significant conversations
- Discerning if people have actually shared with someone
- Moving from online to offline
- Haters/Curious people distracting online responders
- Technical/User experience issues
- Cultural issues
- What’s Next
- New campaign cycles
- Broadcasts for re-engagement
- Online to offline
- Integrate and Catalyze prayer with the bot
- Berivan International/ Full English template, working on translations
June 20, 2019 UPDATE on this case study…
- There have been 4 face-to-face meetings with Cornelius. Because Cornelius lives in a remote area, meeting has been difficult but we just had the 4th meeting this past Monday and are planning to do phone calls regularly to coach Cornelius on moving forward towards starting a Discovery Bible Study. Cornelius and his wife have said on several occasions that they are following Jesus and are continuing to share their new faith. We are having Cornelius and his wife read passages about baptism and they will discuss what baptism looks like for them. Cornelius now lives in a different town than his father and siblings so there’s potential for a group to start with his family as well as in his new town. He continues to demonstrate that he is the type of person we’ve been looking for.
- We’ve had 3 other face to face meetings with possible people of peace and all 3 were solid contacts who are including people in their discovery of Jesus and they have ongoing interaction with us. So 4 out of 4 face-to-face meetings have been solid contacts which encourages us that our high-bar filtering is a good strategy.
Asia Case Study (download The Christmas Robot PDF)
- The Christmas Robot
- Short term bot
- Looking for 18-20 year college students/18-30 year factory workers
- Find where they are
- Have them read through the Christmas story
- Numbers
- 47 wanted to speak to a person or learn more about Jesus
- %5.16 per ea person
- $242.71 total spend (ads, stock images, chatfuel–bot creator)
- 40 hours spent building writing, translating, designing the bot and ads
- 38 days live
- 493 people engaged with bot
- 192 made complete navigation
Highlighted Resources
- Email Carissa at carissa@visualstory.org to get in touch with Levi to have access to his demo.
- Foundations of Media to Movements Course (Mission Media U)
- www.ManyChat.com has good demos that covers topics in a simple way
- www.ChatFuel.com
- M2DMM and/or ChatbotMin (closed FB groups). Email greatcommworkers@gmail.com with your email address to get an invite
- April 12-14 Chatbot training at EMDC. Email steve-baughman@sil.org for more info.
- Digital Hero: https://kingdom.training/digital-hero/
- Mike’s Chatbot: https://m.me/990375361099874
Disciple Making Movements
- https://launch.m2dmm.com/resources/ A one-hour Master Class on how to use Facebook to find hungry people who want to do discovery Bible studies.
- https://kingdom.training Training to help you use media to accelerate disciple making movements.
- www.zumeproject.com An on-line and in-life learning experience designed for small groups who follow Jesus to learn how to obey His Great Commission and make disciples who multiply.
- https://media2movements.org Resource website teaching that media can be used strategically to find persons of peace who can reach their friends and relatives.
Software
- https://disciple.tools Software for disciple making movements.
This event was hosted by Visual Story Network & Mission Media U.
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