There are many ways to interact with the Zúme team and content to multiply disciples and simple churches! Hear Chad share about numerous avenues leading to fruitful stories and even ways you can get involved! From recent experiments of using TikTok to YouVersion Bible plans reaching hundreds of thousands of people and the NEW live chat option on the www.zume.training website with some incredible testimonies already! Have ideas or want to help out? Email podcast@zume.vision

Transcript

Host: 

Welcome back to the Zúme Multiplying Disciples Podcast, where we’re on a journey to saturate the world with multiplying disciples in our generation.

Chad, it’s sweet to be with you, fellow teammate on the Zúme team, and man there’s so much that we could talk about but we’re gonna try and just squeeze in some snapshots in these next 20 minutes. And so, um – A couple of things that I would love to just highlight as we kick off, Chad, and maybe then you could tell a little bit about yourself. But you’ve been involved in seeing these Zúme tools and principles be actually created into YouVersion Bible studies, like the devotions on the YouVersion app that people could click on. And if I remember the last stats I saw, it was over a quarter million people [who] were engaging on Zúme through the YouVersion Bible app, and that is something that anyone can access and hop on. And then, on top of that, we all know social media but good old TikTok and exploring Zúme videos and sharing on TikTok. 

And – really stoked about this announcement – if you guys haven’t checked out the Zúme.vision website lately, there is a new feature and it is the live chat box! And so when you go to Zúme, to the website, you’ll see a live chat box that you can actually, right there, click to be able to talk to someone from the Zúme team, from coaches from volunteers, on Zúme.training. And so it’s been an exciting — Chad, like you have been a part of helping pioneer that. And so, man! YouVersion, TikTok, live chat box, and so much more. 

And so, Chad, why don’t you just tell us a little bit about yourself and then we can dig into some of just the stories of what God’s doing and some of these cool resource access points. 

Chad:

Absolutely, Mary! I was hanging out with the guy that was discipling me, Eric Dairy, and he said, “Man, you should come into this meeting!” And it was a Zúme meeting and they were like, “Man, we really need somebody to help with social media.” And I raised my hand and said, “Well, I – I like playing around on Facebook and stuff, and and um, and actually have like two Facebook accounts that are kind of maxed out, but really enjoy, um, the social media world.” And so they were like, “Oh, that’s great!” And so we started with a Facebook page and then an Instagram page and then a Twitter page, and now we’ve got a LinkedIn page and a TikTok page and the YouVersion stuff is my favorite social media. So, with YouVersion, you can go to Plans, in Search, type in Zúme, and you can see all of the different plans and different things that are up. Um. That would be the one social media tool that I would like to sink my time and stuff into. 

But we are actively looking for other people that might be interested in helping us figure out how to get more people engaging and kind of just spreading the word. In the training cycle, you know, we pass this stuff on to people by modeling, assisting, watching, and then leaving. And so, with social media we can do a ton of modeling and, and kind of showing people the ropes and how to get started with this stuff. And that stuff is really exciting to me, and if that’s exciting to you, the — My kids were giving me the hardest time about being on TikTok because I’m an old guy, and. And we just need some, some other people that would be interested in saying, “Yeah! Um, I’m in! I’d love to, to help run the Twitter page, I’m on Twitter all the time,” or whatever, you know? Uh. We just really need a ton of help. 

New Live Chat Feature

And one of the coolest things that’s happening right now with the, with the live chat feature on the website— So, if you go to Zúme.vision or Zúme.training, you’ll see the little Messenger icon pop up. If you click on that, uh, you can ask a question. Some of the coolest questions have been coming in. The challenge is, sometimes they’re in other languages. So we’ve been having to use Google Translate and all this different stuff, so. Um. Hopefully we’ll get more traffic than our current team can handle, and we’ll need to be able to add some more people to respond to some of those questions like that. 

Some people have been responding, saying, “Man, I just really want to get to know God better.” And, um, and so that was actually a French speaker in Quebec, that– If anybody that’s listening to this call right now and you speak French, and/or are in Quebec, there’s somebody right now saying that they really want to get to know God better. And with the language barrier, and Google Translate, and geographically being very far away from them, it has been hard for me to follow up with them, and I currently don’t have any contacts in that region that are willing and able to help. So if that’s you and [you want to get] to know God better, man, we would love to get you connected. So message us– in fact, you could go to the website right now, click on the little Message bot, and me and Mary and Tim and Gus are gonna be– one of us will be the responders. 

And then, as this thing gets going in more and more languages, um. Man, we’re gonna need more and more workers. So. The harvest is plentiful, the workers are few, and I’m putting out an ask to anybody that loves Jesus and multiplying disciples and social media. If you’d like to jump on and help us out, send us a message on the live chat feature. 

Host: 

Amen! So yeah— So that messenger is tied to Facebook Messenger so it’s the same little icon, and if you’re on Facebook you can like the Zúme page and be able to share it and connect with others. 

And so, yeah, Chad, so many opportunities: YouVersion, TikTok, this live chat box from the website, and— 

Chad: 

We’ve got LinkedIn, too! LinkedIn! 

Host:

Oh yeah! And it’s— there’s Instagram and Facebook and Twitter, and you know, just so many, so many things that are happening. 

So even in the midst of all of these different resources, and just ways that people can access Zúme, and even just— what I love about the live chat box is: it is quicker to be able to have person-to-person conversations. And so people can sign up for a coach anytime, they can sign up — you know, you can use Zúme without signing up, but you can also sign up for a coach that we highly, highly encourage, um, because it is a huge game changer. But, to just be able to ask simple questions, um, right away and be able to talk with someone. 

Chad’s Personal Zúme Stories 

And so, even in the midst of all these things, Chad, you’re also a local practitioner right at home. And so, what have been some of the stories that you are seeing God do as you live out the Zúme vision and principles right, right at home? 

Chad:

Well, um. I am a missionary with Team Expansion by day and a part-time supervisor with UPS at night to help get insurance and stuff for my kiddos. And, um. Just last night, we’ve got these two workers, a young engaged couple, and they had overheard me talking to some other employees about being a missionary and about what we do, and they said, “Uh, hey, um. We wanna, we want to be trained, we want to become missionaries, we want to live lives on mission. Um. What do we do?” And so, we’re meeting up and we’re— I’m going to walk them through Zúme. We’re going to get a group started in their home, um. I’m just super excited about how God’s working and all the different things that are going on. Um. 

One of the places that we’re seeing the most fruit in our city is that we met a person of peace — actually, he kind of met us and found us — and he is amazing and loves Jesus like crazy. But he had spent 36 years in prison and 20 of that was in solitary confinement, and that’s where he met the Lord. And in the last couple years he’s baptized over 400 men out of the prison system. And the same halfway house or, um — it’s kind of like you get to go out on work release kind of a, kind of a lockdown where you’re still a ward of the state — he used to be an inmate in there and now he’s got keys to the place. He’s the chaplain on call. He’s got a dorm full of 20 men that he’s been deeply investing in and discipling, and it’s just amazing watching what God can do when ordinary people say, “I’m in. Sign me up! I wanna, I wanna live my life on mission.” 

So God’s a missionary God and He loves us and has called us to join Him on this great adventure. And man, I wish I could say that it was easy. It is not. It’s simple, but it is not easy, and uh, watching my friend Tony in the prison system endure all the persecution that he’s had to go through, it’s just been amazing and he’s responded well and continues to to make disciples that make disciples in that place, in space, right here in our city. Um. God’s doing some cool things here and there, uh, we just — Man, I could go on forever! What uh, wha