The 2023 Digital Discipleship Awards are to acknowledge those who have excelled in Digital Discipleship, and encourage and inspire people to use their spiritual gifts to create content, share content and engage with people online to become part of a movement through which Jesus intends to change the world and prepare people for His coming kingdom.

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What is Digital Discipleship?

Digital discipleship refers to the use of digital tools to help people become part of a movement through which Jesus intends to change the world and prepare people for His coming kingdom. Our goal is to make disciples and inspire people to grow in discipleship. We create digital content, run programs and build communities to inspire, equip and educate church members to be effective in reaching people with the teachings of Jesus, and to help them grow in their faith.

Digital Discipleship is a ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific.

Digital Discipleship Conference – Sydney May 5-7

We welcome Digital Disciples from all over the world to join the Digital Discipleship Conference in Sydney during May 2023. There will be an incredible range of speakers who will share from their experience how to be effective at sharing Jesus online. On the evening of May 6 there will be a special dinner where the 2023 Digital Discipleship Award winners will be announced. For those who are unable to attend the Conference, winners will be notified after this awards dinner by phone or email. To find out more about this conference, click here.

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Join us as we acknowledge those who have excelled in the area of digital discipleship across the South Pacific. Find out more about the awards here.

Digital Discipleship Award Categories

• Digital Discipleship People’s Choice Award

  Four awards to be given, one to an individual in each Union:

  • Australian Union Conference award
  • New Zealand Pacific Union Conference award
  • Papua New Guinea Union Mission award
  • Trans Pacific Union Mission award

  Vote for an individual who has achieved outstanding work sharing Jesus through digital media channels. This person will have excelled in innovation, creativity, community engagement with their content, community building and mission impact. The content will be consistent with the values and beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist church.

• Best use of Instagram for Digital Discipleship
  An award to an individual, team, ministry or church who has posted content on Instagram during 2022/23 that encourages people to be a disciple of Jesus. They will have excelled in innovation, creativity, community engagement with their content, community building and mission impact. The content created will be consistent with the values and beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist church.
• Best use of TikTok for Digital Discipleship
  An award to an individual, team, ministry or church who has posted content on TikTok during 2022/23 that encourages people to be a disciple of Jesus. They will have excelled in innovation, creativity, community engagement with their content, community building and mission impact. The content created will be consistent with the values and beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist church.
• Best use of YouTube for Digital Discipleship
  An award to an individual, team, ministry or church who has posted content on YouTube during 2022/23 that encourages people to be a disciple of Jesus. They will have excelled in innovation, creativity, community engagement with their content, community building and mission impact. The content created will be consistent with the values and beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist church.
• Best use of Facebook for Digital Discipleship
  An award to an individual, team, ministry or church who has posted content on Facebook during 2022/23 that encourages people to be a disciple of Jesus. They will have excelled in innovation, creativity, community engagement with their content, community building and mission impact. The content created will be consistent with the values and beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist church. 
• Best use of audio – eg podcasts, audiobooks, music
  An award to an individual, team, ministry or church who has posted content on an audio or music based platform during 2022/23 that encourages people to be a disciple of Jesus. They will have excelled in innovation, creativity, community engagement with their content, community building and mission impact. The content created will be consistent with the values and beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist church.
• Best use of other platforms for Digital Discipleship
  An award to an individual, team, ministry or church who has posted content or hosted live sessions on Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, WhatsApp and other similar content sharing or community building platforms not covered in the other digital discipleship awards. Eligible content needs to be posted during 2022/23 and encourages people to be a disciple of Jesus. They will have excelled in innovation, creativity, community engagement with their content, community building and mission impact. The content created will be consistent with the values and beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist church.

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Terms and Conditions

1. Nominees must be members of (in the case of individuals or teams) or based in (in the case of ministries or local churches) the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific.
2. Anyone, from any part of the world, is welcome to make a nomination or participate in the vote.
3. Adventist Media and its appointed representatives will select finalists from the nominations based on the award criteria, including that the nominated content is consistent with the values and beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist church.
4. Finalists will be posted on the Adventist Media awards website and associated social media pages by April 3.
5. Only one vote per union for the people’s choice award category is permitted. You may vote for nominees in unions other than the union where you live.
6. Voting must be done online and using a valid email address.
7. Voting begins Monday April 3 and finishes April 21 (AEST).
8. Adventist Media reserves the right to change the terms and conditions of this promotion without notice.
9. Finalists and winners are not spokespeople for the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the church has no responsibility or liability for any content that these people may publish.
10. Employees of, and ministries operated by Adventist Media are ineligible for entry.
11. The judges’ decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.