Take the gospel where the world already lives.
A digital missionary is an ordinary believer who crosses that screen on purpose. Not to broadcast at people, but to find them, befriend them, and walk with them toward Jesus in the digital spaces where they already live — the feed, the server, the inbox, the game, the group chat.
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- Discord
- VR
- Twitch
- Telegram
- TikTok
- Signal
- video games
- YouTube
Nobody does this alone.
The Fam is where the others are.
Cairn always ends at a person, and this is the room those people are in — practitioners in the same feeds, servers and group chats you're in, most of them a few steps ahead of where you are now.
The Fam on Discord
Channels by platform, voice rooms, prayer.
Join →The Fam on WhatsApp
Daily, low-data, on the phone you already carry.
Join →There's one community for the whole family, and it lives at theChurch.digital — a digital missionary and a church leader belong in the same room, so we didn't build a second one.
And soon, a coach that travels with you.
We're building Cairn — not a course you sit through, but something that asks, waits, and hands the work back to you, in your language and on the worst connection you have. A cairn is the stack of stones a trail-blazer leaves so whoever comes next can find the way; that is the whole job. Beta · in build
Learn by conversation
The EDM curriculum, delivered as interactive formation — at your pace, in your language, starting the day you're ready.
A companion for the work
Not just a course — ongoing help thinking through your actual ministry week: the conversation you're in, the community you're building.
Tools for network leaders
Equipping the people building outposts and regional networks — so the mission multiplies without centralizing.
Always toward people
The companion's north star: connecting you to real humans and real community. It's the front door, never the destination.
Free for individuals when it lands. Until then, the Fam is the room to be in.
One screen. Every timezone. The whole church online.
A worldwide, fully-online conference built for the people doing the work in the comments and the DMs. No flights, no walls — just the next step in your digital mission. Dates and details announcing soon.
Get the announcement →What a fully-online gathering actually feels like.
Live, together
Sessions you join from anywhere, in real time, with believers in every timezone at once.
Playbooks you keep
Every session ships with an evergreen guide you can run in your own mission field the next day.
A global room
Connect with digital missionaries reaching feeds, servers, games, and group chats worldwide.
Start with who you are, then learn the ground you're on.
What Is a Digital Missionary?
The cornerstone guide. If you read one thing here, read this — it's the identity everything else is built on.
Read the cornerstone →What Is a Digital Missionary?
The starting point for everything we do — who digital missionaries are, why the mission field is now digital, and how to take your first step.
Sharing the Gospel in Someone's Heart Language
People are most open to Jesus in the language of their heart. Here's how everyday Christians use digital tools to meet them there — from an Uber ride to a WhatsApp thread.
Discipleship in Hard Places
Reaching people the local church usually can't — by going to the specific platforms they already use, and building secure, real community there.
Reaching the De-Churched
Tens of millions have left church without leaving God. In a low-trust age, the digital missionaries who listen first are the ones who reach them.
Digital Missions in the Gaming World
Gaming and streaming are where a generation lives, talks, and belongs. Here's how digital missionaries make disciples in-game, on stream, and in Discord.
Recovery & Wellness for Digital Missionaries
You can't pour out what you don't have. Before you shine out, shine in — why personal recovery and soul-health are fuel for digital mission, not a distraction from it.
Mission in Web3 & the Metaverse
A new culture is being formed right now in crypto, web3, and virtual worlds. If Christians don't show up at the tip of the spear, the Church risks losing the territory before it's built.
The summits are the heartbeat. Six are already recorded.
Nothing new gathers in 2026 — the Gaming Workshop closed the year. Watch any of it now, and be first to hear about 2027.
Find out where you already are.
Four questions, about two minutes. Most people discover they are further along than they thought — and that the next step is smaller than they feared. No email, no signup, nothing saved.
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Presence Where do you already spend most of your online time?
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Faith Have the people there ever heard you talk about your faith?
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People Is anyone walking with you in this?
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Others Has anyone come to you asking how to do it?
Where you are
Next stepQuestions people ask
What exactly is missionary.digital?
The global home of digital missions in the theChurch.digital family — the resource that trains and companions digital missionaries anywhere, and the fully-online gathering that brings them together, coming in 2027.
Who is it for?
Anyone who ministers online or wants to: online campus pastors, social-media missionaries, content creators, group leaders, church digital teams, and everyday believers who sense the call to reach people through a screen.
Do I need to be tech-savvy?
No. If you can join a video call and send a message, you can be a digital missionary. We'll meet you wherever you are and help you take the next step.
When in 2027? How much does it cost?
Dates, schedule, and pricing are being finalized. Add your email and you'll be the first to know the moment registration opens.
How is this different from theChurch.digital and hybrid.church?
Same family, different focus. theChurch.digital is the community for the church's outside-the-box thinkers. hybrid.church helps physical churches embrace their digital EDGE. missionary.digital is the global home of the digital missionary — the resource that equips them and the gathering that brings them together.
The mission field moved. We're going where it went.
Every day, billions of people gather in places no missionary was ever sent — a feed, a server, an inbox, a game, a group chat. They are not audiences. They are neighbours.
You don't need a platform, a title, or permission. You need to cross the screen on purpose, and to keep going after the novelty wears off.
And it doesn't stop with you. What you learn is meant to be handed on — to someone who hands it on again, to someone we will never meet.
One family, three doors.
This site is the view for individuals on mission. The community, the library and the wider movement live at the hub.
The hub — the Fam, the free library, the movement. This is where the community actually is.
Go to the hub →You're here. Digital missions worldwide — the identity, the guides, the summits and Cairn.
You are hereFor physical churches finding their digital EDGE. If you're on a church staff, start there.
Go there →Be first to know about 2027.
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