Facebook for Pastors by MinistryMarketingCoach.com‘s Chris Forbes is a step-by-step primer describing how a pastor might use Facebook.  This thirty page e-book clearly presents the benefits of how social media can help shape a ministry, and provides a theological justification for using it as a tool.

The bulk of the booklet presents information that even the most novice Facebook user will know, but the information should still be of some use to the technologically illiterate set, seasoned pastors seeking something more that may just now be dipping their toes into the digital universe.  The last few pages are filled with testimonials from various ministers who have effectively used Facebook in their ministry.

Fortunately, Chris Forbes licensed this book for free distribution via the internet.  On the copyright page he explains:

You have permission to post, email or print this e-book and pass it along for free to
anyone you like as long as you make no changes or edits to its contents or digital
format. The right to bind this book and sell it is strictly reserved.

In that spirit, I have posted a copy of Facebook for Pastors for others to download.

Facebook for Pastors by Chris Forbes (PDF)

I learned about this book on the WM Communications Asia-Pacific website.