The Second Wave Has Arrived!

Dear Friends:

It has been said that the only constant in life is change. As humans, we are in a constant flux of change. As much as we love stability and being able to count on something or someone being the same as always, change happens. Change is inevitable.

In my experience in the Internet digital evangelism world, change has been in the form of software, languages offered, and methods to finding revenue income. But in 2025, the landscape of digital evangelism changed drastically. It is due to this change that we can look retrospectively and label we have done as the “First Wave” of digital evangelism and the upcoming methods as the “Second Wave.”

Network211 was created in the early days of the Internet, which brought the First Wave of Internet evangelism. My father, Dr. George M. Flattery, learned about the Internet in 1992 0and started digitizing ICI University subjects (ICIU is now Global University). He incorporated Global Colleagues (later to be called Network211) in December of 1997. Google went public in September 1998. I like to say that God created Google for us to use as the new Roman roads to reach the known world. We launched Project 10Million on October 15, 2008, with the goal to present the Gospel to 10 million people in ten years. The Lord allowed us to accomplish that goal on October 14, 2013, five years later. It was expanded to be called Project 100Million, and we are at 65.3 million Gospel presentations.

Network211 met people at their point of need as they searched online for answers to the dilemmas of their lives. We presented Christ as the Answer and then connected with them when they wrote to us. We provided further online content so that they could grow in the Lord. Then, we helped them belong to a local church. So, our strategy was search, present, connect, grow, and belong. Our motto was that we helped individuals go from “Searches to Churches!” This First Wave continues and is presented in seventeen languages.

I submit that due to the arrival of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Second Wave of Internet evangelism has arrived in 2025.  The leap from the first wave to the second wave was so exponential that it would be like moving from radio to the Internet and skipping over the era of television and movies. Network211 hosted a conference on November 14, 2025 called, “Empowering Believers in the Digital New World” with the intent of exposing the Church to the Second Wave.

As the Second Wave begins, Network211 is adding to its presentations content that is optimized for Generative AI, creating an Assemblies of God Data Lake to be the resource for AI tools, adding an AI chat box, and adding a Digital Human that has the potential to converse in 120 languages. The Second Wave has arrived! You will be hearing more in the coming days.

So, what I request is that you continue to faithfully pray and give to Network211! We are working diligently to fulfill the Great Commission to everyone, everywhere and in every nation and territory on the planet.

Yes, we must enter the Second Wave with our eyes wide open. At the same time, we must ask, “How can we use AI for the glory of God!” Thank you for being a vital part of our partnership as we take this journey together.

Blessings,
Mark

Dr. Mark Flattery
Network211 President