From your own home you can be a living powerful witness for Jesus and the Glory of God. Today you can be a worldwide witness and spread the love of God with others.

You can share the love of Jesus in most nations and go right into people's homes and businesses and speak to people in a very personal way.

Jesus said “go into all the world and preach the gospel to every person”. The Internet is a new and free way of providing people with a way to share Jesus around the world.

Once it was true that only a few people traveled the world in evangelism and missions. Now it is possible for anyone with a computer and Internet hookup to share Jesus with others around the world 24 hours a day. Age, finances, gender and color, etc. are no longer limitations to worldwide witness. Today many people have best friends in other cities or nations that they have never personally met.  The Internet is becoming what the town square once was, a place to meet and chat.

The need for street witnesses, personal witnessing everywhere, tract distribution, personal talking, radio and television ministry, church ministry and all types of sharing and helping others in a personal way has not changed and never will.

This new and modern way is now open via the Internet.  Yet there are many forces seeking for the hearts and minds of people on the Internet.  There is evil and there is good. Most of us get unsolicited e-mail every day offering all kinds of things. Almost all of it is ‘Spam’ mail sent out in mass mailings.

Your witness will be different.

Please note the following very important tips:

1. Always in the subject line give your first or last name and put in their name!! I usually put “to Owen from Arthur” as an example. When a person sees their name they know someone took the time to personally type it in and they will almost always read the e-mail.
   
   
2. When you send e-mail your return e-mail address will automatically go with the e-mail so do not think that you are anonymous. This is good as they can respond to you directly.
   
   
3. I will give a number of suggested e-mail ideas. You can change them to fit your own style or use them as they are. Select the one that is most comfortable for you to use or you may use a different one from time to time.
   
   
4. I give several links from my own website so that the person receiving the e-mail can find further information about how to know Jesus or grow in Him. You may add your own homepage or other good gospel links. However I suggest a short list and ones that are to the point.
   
   
5. You will visit many sites that have a “Guest Book” to sign. This is a great place to leave a witness. Make your comment personal. Just one line will do but say something like “Your dog is sure lovely, or your site is beautiful”. Then you can write your message and give a website or two. Not only the person that has the guest book will read it but all the viewers will also see your message. You can just “copy” and “paste” your message in taken from the suggested list below.
   
   
6. I have been getting about a 10% response to my e-mail witness to totally unknown people around the world. I think that is wonderful.

HOW TO “COPY AND PASTE”

1. In “Internet Explorer” Hold down the left mouse click and drag the cursor over the area you want to copy from the suggested e-mail witness letter below and it will highlight as you move down. Go to the end of what you want to copy and stop. You can release the mouse and the text will stay highlighted.
   
   
2. Click “Edit” at the top left then click “Copy” from the drop down list. You can now use this over and over until you do a new “Copy”.
   
   
3. Now when you click a person's e-mail address you only need to type in the “Subject line”! Then go to the message and click “Paste” from the same drop down list and the message is now in the e-mail and ready to send.  Just click "Send"! and pray for them…. Glory!
   
   
4. The best idea I think is to open your own e-mail system, the place where you send and receive e-mail. I use “Outlook Express” as an example.  Open “New Mail” and put in the subject line ‘e-mail message 1’or some other title you will remember. For the message “copy and paste” a message from one of the letters below. Add your own personal message or homepage or websites. Make the e-mail just as you would like it. Then do not mail it!  Instead go to the top left and click “File” from the drop down list click “Save” and it will now go in your “Draft” file. Now all you need to do is just open it at any time, do “copy” from the drop down list under “Edit” and now you can surf the web and use that message anytime by just clicking “paste” in an e-mail or in a guest book or on a message board.  You can have a list of several different messages saved to be used at different times.

Where can I find e-mail addresses?

Huge List of Pen Pal Sites
http://hellopenpal.com:8080/hellopenpalcom/index7.jsp
This seems the biggest and best yet.

Find e-mail addresses in Search sites:

Here you can simply type in any last name and click search.   A huge list of names and e-mail addresses come up. You may start with your own last name. Be sure you do the e-mail search and not the phone number!
http://www.bigfoot.com/
http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/
http://www.switchboard.com/

Sites for Internet Pen pals and Cyber friends. Very good pages for people seeking e-mail. You can even list yourself and get people writing to you from around the world.
http://www.4penpals.com/find.shtml (a listing of many pen pal sites. Continue down the page with sites then click ‘more’ for next page.)
http://penpalsnow.com/ppnow/main.html
http://www.cyberfriends.com/
http://members.aol.com/widowclub/ppcorner.html
http://walker.cioe.com/~shannon/penpal/
http://www.christianpenpals.com/pen-pals/ (a Christian pen pal site)

Find people's homepages:
http://www.icq.com/directories/index.html#email

These are just a few places for you to start.

You can do ‘searches’ for other sites using your favorite search site.

Should you find sites where there are e-mail birthday lists, pen pals sites, etc., you can e-mail me and we may add them to this list!

Important Notes

1. When you witness in person you meet all kinds of people. It is the same on the Internet. Should you get e-mail that you do not like, just hit the “Delete” tab and move on. You do not even need to read it.
   
   
2. You can put a block on any e-mail address that writes to you so you never have to see their message again. On “Outlook Express” which I use just “highlight” the e-mail message title, click “Message” on the tool bar and then click on “Block sender”. Their message will now go to the “Deleted” or “trash” automatically without you ever seeing it.
   
   
3. I suggest that you do not give out your full name and address or phone number to people unknown to you. It is fine if you have already chosen to put it on your homepage but most people only use an e-mail address.
   
   
4. My suggestion is that you stay with the subject of JESUS!! Do not get into other subjects. I just stick with Jesus. You may feel led to make an exception in certain cases but be careful. When I witness in bars, nightclubs and other such places I talk only about Jesus and do not just set around and visit. It closes the door to many temptations and avoids many problems. I generally take the same approach most of the time anyway.
   
   
5. You may want to set up a special e-mail account to use for witnessing. They are free and easy to sign up for. Some of the most popular are at Yahoo and Hotmail.
   
   
6. For more training in ‘How to Witness’ please go to the “Mercy Street” site at http://www.mercystreet.com/ and enroll in the “Street University”. You can even graduate and get a diploma! But most important you can get great teaching and practical application.
   
   
7. “Follow up” teaching is found at my site at http://www.blessitt.com/followup/followingjesus.html
   
   
8. Please print off this entire site and study.
   
   
9. Spread the word about this “How to Witness on the Internet” site to your friends that ‘Follow Jesus’ and may want to witness on the Internet. You could send this site to all your e-mail friends.
   
   
10. To send this site to others: In “Internet Explorer” just click ‘mail’ on the links bar at the top. From the drop down list click either “Send link” or “Send Page”. Your e-mail will come up and you can just select the persons to send it to from your own e-mail list. Simple so do it! Ha!
    
    
11. Please pray and begin the your witness for Jesus on the worldwide web now!
    
    
12. E-mail me news of how the witness of sharing Jesus on the Web goes as you use these ideas for the glory of God. http://www.blessitt.com/forma.html
    
    
13. The Bible in many different languages:
    http://bible.gospelcom.net/
    This can be of great help in 'follow up'.
    
    
14. Gospel tracts in over 100 different languages!! It's the very good 4 Spitural Laws tract. You copy and past it into e mails for witness to people around the world.
    Website at: http://www.greatcom.org/laws/languages.html

God bless you and may Jesus us you in the power of the Holy Spirit to be a wonderful witness of the Love of God and Salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord.