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Christmas Service Creativity

1.4.2010 — 1 Comment

Surfing the Interwebs this Christmas Season, I stumbled upon numerous creative elements that youth ministries and churches used in their Christmas Service programming. Below are some of my favorites:

Oneighty Varsity, the youth ministry of Church on the Move in Tulsa, OK made this great SNL-short-inspired video, “I Love Christmas”


If you saw the famous YouTube “Wedding Dance” video, this video from The youth ministry at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, TX will make sense:


LifeChurch.tv showed an almost 20-minute original short-film “This Christmas” for all of their online campus-events:


Anything else Christmas-creative that you have links to? Post in the comments!

In General, Linkage, Ministry, Videos
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Do you backup your computer’s data?

1.2.2010 — Leave a comment

I have a 160gb external hard drive that I try to backup my “important” stuff to every so-often. I’m not the best at remembering to update that hard drive with the latest files and information, but I do try.

Today I stumbled upon “Mozy” – an affordable solution to backing up data online. I am still testing out Mozy, but as of right now I’m not paying ANYTHING for it and I have 2gb of free storage.

Mozy allows you to choose folders/files on your computer’s hard drive that will automatically stay synched on their secure servers via an Internet connection. If you had a catastrophic hard drive failure, the data you backed up with Mozy would be available to restore from!

Mozy also gives its users another 1gb of storage for every two people they refer to their service that actually sign up and backup their data.

If you’re interested, go here – https://mozy.com/?ref=WLXQGGa

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LOVE MERCY 2009 – Wesleyan Youth Convention

12.27.2009 — 1 Comment

Hey Wesleyan Tweeps – consider adding the LOVE MERCY logo as your Twitter/Facebook picture for this week – use it as a way of reminding people to pray for what’s taking place in our four locations from December 28-31st. Pray for God to move mightily in the hearts and lives of students across our nation!

If you change your Twitter/Facebook image, post a link to your profile in the comments! If you’re planning on blogging from your LOVE MERCY location, let us know that, too, in the comments!

More on the convention and its four locations can be found here.

Those of you on Twitter can keep up with the ‘what’s up’ by keeping an eye on the trending topic ‘#lovemercy’ on Twitter. Link to the search results is here.

It will be fun to see what people are saying about the convention and attempting to guess which city their talking about – Baltimore, Charlotte, Louisville, or Denver.

For the record, I will be at LoveMercy in Baltimore.

UPDATE: Just re-compiled a listing of each convention since 1968 here.

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The Art Commandments by Rob Lacey

12.11.2009 — 1 Comment

My artistic friends will get these:

THE ART COMMANDMENTS by Rob Lacey.

1 I’m God – the source of your oozing talent
2 No idols – Heroes, yes; mentors, yes; but no idols
3 Blasphemy – ”mediocrity is blasphemous” – Steve Stickley
4 Rest day – call it ‘incubation’, ‘gestation’, ‘creative idleness’ whatever, re-creation comes after/before creation
5 Respect your parents – honour your heritage. new doesn’t always=better
6 Adultery – don’t use your celebrity for your own ends.
7 Murder – Art inspires life, cynicism kills
8 Theft – quote your sources (see 3)
9 Lies – audiences want truth not tricks. be.
10 Jealousy – How do you react to greatness?

from here.

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One BILLION Minutes

12.10.2009 — Leave a comment

youversion-mobile-billionWow. YouVersion, the popular online Bible version that I use daily has just achieved an incredible milestone. Over 1 Billion minutes of mobile Bible browsing has happened since YouVersion launched its numerous mobile applications for today’s popular phones (still none for the Palm Pre, but http://m.youversion.com works for now)

1 Billion Minutes… That’s 19-centuries, 16.7 million hours of people reading the Bible on their mobile device like an iPhone, iPod touch, Blackberry, etc.

And it hasn’t cost those reading the Word even a single penny.

Lifechurch.tv, the church behind the YouVersion programming and brand continues to blow-my-mind with their generosity in giving back again and again to not just their local community and local church but to the Church (big “C”) and WHOLE world with their innovative and resourceful selves.

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