Calum Henderson

I love countdown videos.

3 reasons why countdowns are awsome

1. Build suspense for your session
2. Let people know that there is a definite starting time
3. Get your audience involved and participating before the session starts (Everyone counts down from 10! Everyone!)

And there is a website at which you can download free countdown movies!

freecountdowns.net is an amazing website at which you can download free countdowns. Some are amazing, and some are not so amazing. But the best part about them all is that they’re free!

There are a whole range of countdowns, some in HD, some that are 30 seconds, some that are 3 minutes.

So for your next youth group session or camp, download one of these movies (MPEG-1 or MPEG-4 format) and use it to build suspense for a session.

Here are a few examples of the countdowns.

Free stuff is awesome, so here is another list of free things that I have found around the web. Hope you enjoy this list as much as the first one. (All of these links are completely legal)

Videos

• Free video countdowns (These are awesome!)
• Satellite countdown (From Midnight Oil Productions – have to login to download)
• Background loops (From Midnight Oil Productions – have to login to download)
• Moving background (From New Worship Media)

PDF books

• 279 days to overnight success (From Chris Guillebeau)
• A brief guide to world domination (From Chris Guillebeau)
• John Piper books (From desiringGod)

Album

• Rain City Hymnal (From Resound – need to share with people to download)

Fonts

• Some cool fonts (From Misprinted Type)

Programs for Mac’s

• 60 free Mac programs (From AppStorm)
• Tweetie (From Atebits)
• X-Moto (From Apple Downloads)

Hope you enjoy some of them (If you did, check out the first list of free stuff), and if you have any suggestions to add to the next one, let me know. (Please continue reading to see additions from the last set of comments)

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