Momentum is looking to the future, a digital future. From November 2007, it will be published three times a year in two different forms - online and in a print.

Readers will be able to access the full range of Momentum stories via the Methodist Church's website and a selection of articles and summaries will also be distributed in a six-page printed digest.

Since the first pilot edition was published two years ago, Momentum has worked hard to demonstrate the diversity of Methodist involvement in society at large. But in order to reach as many potential readers as possible (including those with little or no Methodist connection), it can no longer rely just on the printed page.

That's why we want to use the Methodist Church website, which gets around 1000 visitors every day. As Andy Graystone, Director of the Churches' Media Council, said recently, the Church needs to recognise that most people spend many hours a day using a computer. 'Five years from now we will either have learnt to minister in a digital environment or we will be its victims.'

So Momentum is to be produced more frequently - and more flexibly too. Because not everyone can access a computer, a print digest is to be published in November, March and July, including featured articles and summaries of other Momentum stories.

At the same time, all the articles on the website will be available in a way that allows local churches to reproduce articles easily on their own websites, in church newsletters, or for other communication purposes.

There are good Methodist stories to be told - too important not to be told as widely as possible.

Laurence Wareing (Editor)
for the Momentum Editorial Group

editor.momentum@methodistchurch.org.uk

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