Fervr started accepting registrations last monday. This means that any youth leader can easily take their youth group online, stay in touch with the youth in their group and grow the youth in their group.

This summer Fervr will be used by Crusaders, Youthworks and Presbyterian Youth camps to keep leaders and kids in contact with each other and to continue learning beyond camp.

Churches have also started groups on Fervr, check out St Andy’s youth site.

What is Fervr? Check out goFervr.net. It’s what I’ve been working on for the last year at Youthworks.

Mark Driscoll from Mars Hill Church has released a free book “Porn Again Christian” (pdf). It describes porn as ‘drinking a tall glass of toilet water’. Definately worth a read.

Dave Mires has published the audio from the On the Net workshop that we ran at the Youthworks Youth Ministry Conference on 24 November 2008.

Here’s a bit of an overview of what we discussed:

1. Does God hate the internet? (No, unless its used badly)
2. It it worth it? (Using the internet for ministry…)
3. What are the dangers? (Porn, predators, privacy, protection, procrastination, but also can promote Jesus and your group)
4. How do I do it? (MySpace, Facebook, Wordpress and Fervr)