// June 2026
Digital Missionary Gaming Workshop
One day, live on Discord — three talks on reaching the people already gathered in games. Theology of Fun, Gaming as Parable, and Digital Ethics, led by people who actually play.
The mission field has a controller. On June 25, 2026 the Gaming Workshop gathered pastors, streamers, planters and players — live on Discord, free, in the place gamers already call home.
Three talks, one mission:
- Theology of Fun — Leighton Seys (host · Director of Community, theChurch.digital — leads the gaming and metaverse outpost; online he goes by FlatCap). Play is not a distraction from the holy: fun, joy and imagination are theological, and the spaces gamers love are mission ground.
- Gaming as Parable — Dr. Steven Kelso (DrLevelUp · professor and Dean of Students, Kansas Christian College; proprietor of The Guiding Lantern). Games are not just games — they are parables. Learning to read the sacred stories already being told in the worlds your people inhabit.
- Digital Ethics — Nathan Webb (Nerd Pastor Nate). What faithfulness looks like in the spaces where your parish is a platform.
The conviction underneath it: gamers, geeks and nerds are not a niche — they are a people group, and most of them grew up feeling like they did not belong in church. There are millions of people who will never walk into a church building who will log in tonight. They deserve a missionary who speaks their language.
Want to go deeper? Start with the Digital Missions in the Gaming World guide, or meet the people doing this every week in the gaming outpost.
The next gathering is 2027.
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