An Online Home For Cybermissionaries

Cybermissions.Org has launched as an online professional community dedicated to cybermissions and Internet evangelism. Articles, forums, blogs, and a 12 week Training In Cybermissions course.

John Edmiston, an Australian missionary based in Manila can reach closed countries like Bhutan from his office in Makati -- by using the Internet. John says that even in remote countries there will be someone seeking the Lord, who is connected to the Internet and who is often a leader or a person of influence. Once this person is contacted and becomes a Christian they can download material and spread the gospel in their land.

John has been online since 1991 with Australian BibleNet, the Prayer Page, Eternity Online Magazine, the Asian Internet Bible Institute and now Cybermissions.Org (www.cybermissions.org) which aims to be a web portal supporting cybermissionaries and web evangelists with articles, forums, blogs and a 12 week training course (online of course!).

Cybermissions.Org is mainly concerned with cross-cultural ministry. John Edmiston has found 43 nations that are most suitable for cybermissions as a main missionary strategy. These include places like Brunei, China and India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, Turkey, Russia, Japan, Oman, Cuba, Thailand and Bahrain, Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia. China with 45.8 million Internet users (Nielsen survey) and its tough restrictions on conventional missionary activity is a massive harvest field open to cybermissions.

Cybermissions does not require large numbers of Internet connected people either (though it certainly helps) as a group of twenty or thirty good online contacts in a given people group can then form the basis for a house-church and the start of a church-planting movement.

Cybermissions.Org can be found at http://www.cybermissions.org and is a division of the Asian Internet Bible Institute (http://www.aibi.ph/). The Asian Internet Bible Institute is an interdenominational (evangelical/charismatic) ministry based in Manila, Philippines that seeks to use the Internet to edify, equip and train Asia's Great Commission Christians. The AIBI is a member of the Philippines Missions Association, and is incorporated with SEC in the Philippines as a non-stock, non-profit religious association, Company Registration No: A200208256.

John Edmiston
PO Box 4526 Makati
Philippines 1004
PH: +632 550 1183
Email: johned@aibi.ph