Last October 3, 2026, the Cru Philippines’ Digital Strategies Team held another Digital Missions Launchpad, a course designed to equip churches in using digital tools to reach people and make disciples. While this year’s format stepped out of its usual three-week, purely online, session to a more “in-person” one, its heart remains the same:
...to bear witness to what God is doing online and how the body of Christ can partake in it.
A Desire to Equip the Body of Christ
Digital Missions Launchpad’s objectives is simple:
Equip participants to strategically use digital platforms for evangelism and discipleship, and to help them launch their own digital ministry.
The Launchpad started as a 15-hour module online course that ran for five days, with lessons on Theological Principles of Digital Outreach and Discipleship and a workshop on Digital Outreach. Eventually it became a three-week course made available on the eLearning platform, Discipleship Space.
With a desire to further equip the body of Christ, the Launchpad offered more skill-focused courses, from design to social media to podcasting and even making. Staying true to its main objective of making disciples, each of these specialized courses focuses more on the biblical principles behind the usage of tools, elements, and skills. It wasn’t just for skill development, it was to bear witness to how God is moving in the digital field and how to become part of it….
Creating a Collaborative Environment
Digital Missions Launchpad isn’t just a course. Since it started, the launchpad has always included time for participants to, not only have discussions with mentors, but also with their fellow participants. This was more than having a study group during breakout sessions (or lunch breaks).
The weekly discussion sessions between participants is part of the Launchpad’s initiative to provide a platform for collaborations. It was during these meetings that the organizing team witnessed ideas come together to help build each other’s digital ministry initiatives — both existing and budding, and those that are beginning. The sessions became a means for prayer and encouragement, especially for those who are yet to see their own locality seeing the potential of digital missions. Today that continuous — collaborations between new and old participants of the launchpad continue to connect, pray, and encourage each other, even after the event.
Moving Forward with a Fresher Approach for 2026
Although the once-weekly sessions are now strung in a single day, the Digital Missions Launchpad continues to stay true to its calling in equipping believers on using digital tools to go and make disciples. This learning initiative isn’t just a means to learn skills but also an eye-opener to both the changing, new, and growing unreached people groups online.
The Digital Missions Launchpad may have taken (and continue to take) a different approach but it continues to invite the body of Christ to witness what the Lord is doing online. Whether one is a techie or creative, or simply someone who wishes to reach out to people online (starting with their loved ones), The Digital Missions Launchpad awaits you….
See you in the next one!