Category: misc

Are you called to serve in New York City?

From Church Video Ideas:
My friends, Nelson Searcy and Jason Hatley, at The Journey Church in New York are looking for a Pastor of Media. This is an awesome team, an amazing church and a special ministry where God is moving in the “Big Apple”. I highly encourage my tech friends to pray about this opportunity.

Below is the job description:

Are you passionate about raising up volunteer leaders, directing the media area at one of the nation’s most innovative churches, and growing a production ministry in a multi-site setting?

Are you interested in expanding an already healthy volunteer base of over 35 team members (camera, lights, stage, switchers, editors, etc.) to a structure of over 100 volunteers?

Can you join with our worship arts staff to lead at a very high level, and bring creative and technical excellence to the Sunday service, to worship planning, and to cultivating highly experienced technicians in New York City?

Are you interested in helping a growing church continue to grow?

Do you have a high view ’serving as part of discipleship’ and do you have a strong desire to reach unchurched young professionals and artists?

This is an equipping position to make a difference with the best and the brightest from around the world that make up the Journey Church in NYC.

JOB REQUIREMENTS
– A Solid Calling to New York City
– The ability to mobilize and lead a growing Media/Production Team in an ever-growing environment
– A passion for the Bible and innovation
– A team player
– A high level understanding of media, including contemporary/secular films, video editing systems, technical systems (lighting, staging, video, minimal sound)
– Bachelor or Masters Degree
– Ministry experience in a creative, fast-paced, results-driven environment a plus
– A positive attitude
– A familiarity with The Purpose Driven Church Model
– A risk taker
– A passion for media and the arts
– A passion and drive for evangelism and reaching the unchurched
– A high commitment to the local church
*If you have interest in this position, please email Jason at jason@journeymetro.com.

Cowboys vs Packers

The 10-1 Cowboys are about to kick off against the 10-1 Packers at Texas Stadium in Irving.
It’s gonna be a HUGE game!
The game should give the winner home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
Packers won the coin toss and will receive the ball first.

Not looking forward to Bryant Gumbel and Chris Collingsworth broadcasting the game on the NFL network but either way it’ll be a great game.

Top News: Horses are allowed

The Top News story from the WDL yesterday:

Horses allowed for Christmas Parade

Equine entries will be allowed in this year’s Waxahachie Christmas Parade, scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1.
The annual event, co-sponsored by the Waxahachie Optimist Club and Waxahachie Chamber of Commerce, had previously announced no equine entries would be allowed in this year’s parade due to safety concerns caused by the lack of a staging area.

I want to comment more on this, but I’ll hold off for now.

FREE: Videos now through Christmas

WorshipHouse Media is giving away a FREE download every weekday until Christmas! That’s right… every weekday. Go HERE and click on the “Daily Freebie” ad to go to each day’s freebie.

Stock up on some videos for your church for 2008 or for this Christmas.

Hat tip to Church Video Ideas

Subversive Blogger Award

Subversive Blogger Award

My mate Thomas awarded me the Subversive Blogger Award yesterday.

The award was devised by his friend Jake Bouma from Des Moines. The idea behind the award is:

Subversive bloggers are unsatisfied with the status quo, whether in church, politics, economics or any other power-laden institution, and they are searching for (and blogging about) what is new (or a “return to”) – even though it may be labeled as sacrilege, dangerous, or subversive.

Thomas said of my site: I don’t get the politics posts (He is American) but I get his enthusiasm… big time… and love the whole “Orange Noise Radio” thing.

Along with Thomas, Jake awarded these other bloggers as well (whom I’ll have to get to know):

Thomas also awarded me and these bloggers (also whom I’ll have to get to know – other than Johnny Laird):

  • Pernell Goodyear > Truly inspirational bloke and Elton John fan.
  • Johnny Laird > Another chap I am honoured to know… whose honesty is a daily encouragement.
  • Matt Wilson > For keeping it real and getting his sleeves rolled up in Manchester and beyond.
  • Royzoner > For truly off-the-wall visuals and being an all-round good egg.

So in the spirit of the award and to encourage folks to keep on doing what they’re doing, I would like to give my own Subversive Blogger Award to:

  • Michael Robinson, who has so many thoughts he has to keep them on three different blogs. A man whom I admire for his insights, awareness and observations of the world around him – the good and the bad.
  • Brian Treadaway, who continues to excite me and challenge my faith, not only on Sunday mornings but on a “semi-daily” basis on the encounter blog.
  • Kevin Hendrix, and the folks at ChurchMarketingSucks, for frustrating, motivating and educating me on how to not suck at marketing and sharing my faith.
  • Brandi Manes, who keeps me entertained with her thoughts on life, living with a boy, life in Nashville, TN and who has always been against the status quo since we started working together on the school newspaper at UMHB.

If he hadn’t already been awarded, Thomas would also be first on my list. His reflections on faith and life challenge me and I’m really enjoying his blog as I read his thoughts and watch his progression as a Christian-socialist. I also love his insight into community and anti-consumerism (from someone who loves design).
From Thomas’ blog:

We should be just as ready to read devout simple blogs as deep and learned ones. You must not take offence at the writer’s lack of learning and question his authority, but read the blog from love of simple truth. Do not ask who it was who wrote it, but what it was he wrote. Men pass away but the Lord remains faithful to his word for ever. God uses all kinds of ways to speak to us, and he makes no distinction between man and man.
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis

So that’s it. I probably should award a fifth blogger, but honestly I can’t think of another single blogger who motivates me or inspires me or challenges me like these others. So congratulations and thanks to the winners I’ve challenged. You really do make my day more enjoyable when I get a notice that you’ve added something to your blog.

The rules of participation are pretty straightforward:

1. If you are tagged, write a post with links to five subversive blogs
2. Link back to this post so people can easily find the origin of the meme
3. Optional: Proudly display the “Subversive Blogger Award” somewhere on your blog with a link to the post that you wrote (Please download the image and save it to your own server before posting it to your blog. That way everyone can save on their bandwidth. Jake has another image on his blog as well.)

That’s all there is to it. Keep in mind that this award is meant as an encouragement to bloggers to keep doing what they’re already doing – being subversive (however you interpret it). May we never forget that Jesus (and His message) was the original and ultimate subversive.