These videos were made to encourage university students to think more about how God could use them to serve during their holidays.
You can read more about the three weeks of serving advertising here.
This video was shown during Public Meetings
Guest Post At WorshipHouse Media
I have once again had the privilege of writing a guest post, this time for the blog over at WorshipHouse Media. This post was titled ”4 Important Tips For Using Video Countdowns“.
Incase you haven’t noticed, I really like video countdowns and I reckon they’re great. But far too often I’ve seen people use them badly. Number 1 mistake, having a video countdown that leads into someone speaking. This just doesn’t live up to the anticipation. Anyway, here are the 4 tips I gave.
- Make sure the stage is clear
- Use music
- Start with a bang
- Embed in the presentation
So head over to WorshipHouse Media to check it out, hope you find it helpful!
How Will God Use You? In Your Holidays
These videos were made to encourage university students to think more about how God could use them to serve during their holidays.
You can read more about the three weeks of serving advertising here.
This video was shown during Public Meetings
“Church Is” Survey Results Q3: What don’t you like about Church?
The “Church Is” project was an interactive animation that was made as part of a Christian art exhibit in June 2011 (You can read more about the project here).
The project was based on a survey of 31 people. All the participants remained anonymous and gave permission for their answers to be used. The 31 people may or may not be Christian, but I would assume that most of them are as the majority of participants were people in my circle of friends or friends of friends. You can view a selection of the responses in the project itself, but for interests sake I thought I would publish all of the answers given.
These are the answers to the third question, What don’t you like about Church?
- The negative connotations associated with the Church. I do not like hypocrites in the church either.
- When it becomes confined to a building
- Nooothing
- not much.
- arguments, moralism, judgement, arrogance.
- That not everyone in the world realises what they’re missing out on.
- Division, idolatry, mundaneness, boringness, quenching the spirit,
- Sermons can be hard for those who are not auditory learners.
- when people make you feel like you’re alone
Continue reading below the break for the rest of the responses.
EU Advertising: How Will God Use You?
Over the coming three weeks during EU Public Meetings, we’re going to be encouraging people to think about how God will use them next year (and for the rest of their lives). In order to do this, we’ve come up with a bit of an advertising strategy.
Each week during Public Meetings, there will be a video shown around a theme (serving at Church, in your holidays, or in the EU). This video is a short 3 minute summary of interviews we did with 3 people who serve in that area. The aim of this people is to get them thinking about the many different ways that God can use us to serve his people and his world.
At the end of each of these videos, people are directed to the EU’s Facebook Page where they can watch longer interviews with each of the 3 people from that week about how they serve, and find out more information about serving.
I’m going to share these videos over the coming weeks, and I’ll link to all of the posts below.
- Week 1 – How Will God Use You? In Your Holidays
- Week 2 – How Will God Use You? At Your Church
- Week 3 – How Will God Use You? In The EU
I’m sad that I won’t get to see these videos in Public Meetings as I’ll be on a teaching internship, but I really hope and pray that God will use them to stir people’s hearts to serve him!
I’m Now Microgging
Ok, so I may be making stuff up here. There is no such thing as microgging (yet…), but there is microblogging.
Let me spell it out for you. As the social internet currently stands, I see three tiers of content sharing.
- Public Social Networking: Involves sharing short pieces of primarily text and links, which may show as pictures or videos on some sites (think Twitter, Google+, Facebook with the new subscribe feature).
- Microblogging: Involves sharing short pieces of information. Examples include a photo, a video, a paragraph of text, a quote (think Posterous, Tumblr).
- Blogging: Involves sharing large pieces of information that may include multiple media forms, i.e. a blog post could have text, photos and a video embedded all in the one post (think WordPress, Blogger).
So each tier of content sharing is defined by the amount that you share in a single post. Some people may choose to just use one (eg. only use Twitter), or some may choose to use two. Myself, I choose to use three. I use Twitter to share short updates and communicate links and blog updates with followers, I use my blog to share longer posts about topics. Now microblogging (for me) fits nicely between these two, kind of like an iPad fits between a smartphone and a laptop.
I’ve been microblogging for a while now over at Posterous (You can read about when I started using it here), and I thought it was time to spruce things up. So I’ve done a little redesign.
Apple Announces Steve Jobs’ Death
Today is a sad day as Apple announced the death of Steve Jobs. This is the statement Apple has posted on their website.
Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.
Today I’ll be praying for his family and friends that God will comfort them is this hard time. And I’ll also be praying for other families who have lost loved ones today. Death really does suck.
