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!

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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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My favorite pics from Love Mercy

12.31.2009 — Leave a comment
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Pictures from Love Mercy Baltimore

12.31.2009 — Leave a comment

I used this week to test out my new Canon Rebel camera. I was impressed with both how the camera worked AND how the pictures turned out.

I uploaded 5 photo albums from Love Mercy. Enjoy some or all of them:

Love Mercy Baltimore – 01 (12.28 PM Rally)
Love Mercy Baltimore – 02 (12.28 PM Jared Hall magic show)
Love Mercy Baltimore – 03 (12.29 AM & PM)
Love Mercy Baltimore – 04 (12.30 AM)
Love Mercy Baltimore – 05 (12.30 PM)

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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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