Training baptist pastors in internet information dissemination capabilities in their ministries. An appraisal of the impact

Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: 4.5, , language: English, abstract: This study investigated the impact of training Baptist pastors in using the Internet to disseminate information in their ministries. Quasi-experimental research design was used to examine the impact of training in some aspects of Internet information dissemination and the effects it would have on the ministries of the pastors. Thirty pastors were randomly selected and trained from the pool of pastors without experience in the use of the Internet. A course content was designed for the training. A questionnaire was administered to the pastors before the training as a pre-test and the same questionnaire was administered again to the pastors after the training as a post-test. Ten church members were also randomly selected from each of the churches of these pastors who assessed the impact of the training after the pastors have used the acquired knowledge in their ministries for one month. After the pastors have been using the knowledge in their ministries for one month another questionnaire was administered to the church members for the appraisal. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyse the data collected.