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21 CD, Inc. Aids Churches' Digital Evangelism.


Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2004

21 CD, Inc., through its faith-based business division 21ministry, continues its mission to enhance church evangelism ministries with digital technology. Today the company announced its recent multimedia campaigns on behalf of churches: Bethel Bethel, in the Bible
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21ministry creates multimedia compact discs (storage) MultiMedia Compact Disc - (MMCD) A CD-ROM standard for storing 4.7 GB of data including video. MMCD is being developed by a large numer of computer manufacturers and is expected to be shipped in late 1996 or early 1997.  (CD) for churches to use the latest technology to spread the Gospel to unchurched un·churched  
adj.
Not belonging to or participating in a church.

n.
(used with a pl. verb) People who do not belong to or participate in a church considered as a group. Used with the.
 and underserved people worldwide. 21ministry co-founder, Jason Song has coined the term Digital Evangelism to describe this use of technology in combination with ministry outreach efforts. This type of outreach was most recently implemented during the Christmas season when the churches used multimedia CDs to reach out to church visitors during the holidays. Each CD-Rom included original praise music and background on the story of Christmas, and incorporated custom information about each church, its ministry and particular mission.

"We enjoyed the Christmas CDs and felt they were a good ministry outreach," said Susan Greene, Mount Charleston Baptist Church. "We handed them out after our Christmas Eve candlelight service and our members all commented on them and felt they were a good tool."

Similarly, other 21ministry clients successfully introduced Digital Evangelism to their congregations and raised awareness for church ministries during the Easter season
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    "The mini CD-Rom A CD-ROM disc 80mm in diameter. It holds 180MB compared to the 650MB of the standard 120mm CD-ROM and fits into the deeper well in the center of the tray of most CD-ROM drives. See mini CD and business card CD.  developed last year for Lakeview Church was an excellent way for our membership department to distribute information about our ministries during special Easter services," said Rev. Joshua Kang, Lead Pastor of Lakeview Church in Northbrook, Ill. "This innovative product helped attract the attention of visitors to our church and introduce them to our Web site."

    While 21ministry products have proved successful during the holiday seasons, the company has produced custom digital multimedia throughout the year to help churches with evangelism and outreach efforts, and to enhance youth ministries. Church CDs have included sermons, praise music, video of pageants and youth skits, among other uses. Each CD is a mosaic of an individual church and is designed to aid in outreach ministry to promote the church to seekers around the world.

    21ministry is a division of 21 CD, Inc., an innovative marketing services company and creator of digital multimedia that enable companies to gather knowledge-based data. 21ministry advocates Digital Evangelism to advance traditional marketing and evangelism methods--from static one-dimensional printed material to dynamic, interactive multimedia. With headquarters in Durham, N.C., the company works with Christian organizations such as Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary G-ETS was formed in 1974 when the Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston merged with the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Naperville, Illinois (both U. M. schools). The merged school occupied the Garrett campus. . Visit www.21ministry.com for additional information on our mission.
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