A ministry that reaches a million people a day has one rule for AI: it must never pretend to be a person

The stream is in English with translated captions in several languages, and needs its own registration, separate from an in-person ticket. CV says the link is emailed closer to the day.

Speakers include Heinz Oldewage, CV's managing director, Roger Mawle of Alpha International and Reinout van Heiningen of Jesus.net.

In-person tickets were £79 early bird until 31 July and £99 after. That deadline has passed and CV's page has not been updated, so check the current price before booking. The cost of the livestream is not published at all.

The sessions will be recorded and posted afterwards. No date has been given for that.

Most conferences about the church and artificial intelligence spend the morning deciding whether to be frightened. Christian Vision appears to have skipped that part.

The charity has been putting gospel content in front of people online for years, at a scale it describes in round numbers. Its managing director, Heinz Oldewage, told Christian Today last week that CV had reached a point where more than a million people a day were watching a gospel message from beginning to end. CV has not published the data behind that, and it is his figure rather than an audited one, but it is the position he is arguing from.

The line they have drawn

Oldewage is not against the tools. He points out that people have come to faith through imperfect films, and says that if God can work through those, he believes God can work through imperfect AI systems too.

There is one thing he says CV will not do. "One of the clearest lines we've drawn at Christian Vision is that we will never use AI to impersonate human beings," he told Christian Today.

That is a narrower rule than it first sounds, and a more demanding one. It does not ban writing with a machine, or translating with one, or letting one answer a question at two in the morning. It bans the machine pretending to be a person while it does any of that. For an organisation whose whole method is conversations at scale, that rules out the cheapest version of the work.

His word for the real problem is discernment. The same technology that can carry a gospel message can counterfeit spiritual authority, and the people most exposed to the counterfeit are the ones with least around them to check it against.

Why the anonymous question matters here

The part of his argument that travels furthest is about anonymity. In places where asking a Christian a question in person carries a cost, a search box does not. Someone can ask the thing they could not say aloud, at an hour when nobody is watching, and nobody finds out they asked.

That describes a good deal of Asia, including parts of India where a question about Jesus is a social act before it is a spiritual one. Oldewage says that in those contexts digital is a real blessing, and he is describing something our readers already use.

He is also clear that the anonymous question is a beginning and not an end. CV, he says, has moved away from vanity metrics towards asking whether anyone is actually moving towards discipleship. A million finished videos a day is a number. It is not yet a person in a church.

What has not been announced

No venue name or street address, only the South Kensington area and the nearest Underground station. No current ticket price, because the early-bird deadline on CV's page passed in July and the page has not been changed since. No price at all for the livestream, and no date for the recordings. If you are deciding whether to register, those are the four things to ask CV directly.

Questions people are asking

When is Digital Day 2026? Thursday 12 November 2026. Doors at 09:00 London time, sessions from 10:00 to 17:30, closing at 19:00.

Where is it held? In the South Kensington area of London. CV has not published a venue name or address, only the nearest Underground station.

Can I watch it from India? Yes. It is streamed online and you register separately for the stream. The sessions run 15:30 to 18:30 and 19:30 to 23:00 IST.

What does it cost? In-person tickets were £79 until 31 July and £99 after that. CV's page has not been updated since the deadline passed, so confirm the price before paying. The livestream price is not published.

Who is speaking? Heinz Oldewage, CV's managing director, with Roger Mawle of Alpha International and Reinout van Heiningen of Jesus.net among others.

Who runs it? CV, also called Christian Vision, a charity registered in England and Wales, number 1031031.

Will it be recorded? CV says the sessions will be recorded and put on its website afterwards. It has not said when.

Is the stream in English only? It is presented in English, with translated captions in several languages.