Watched this last night. It’s the teaser for the new James Bond movie, Skyfall.
I’m a little excited.
Playing with time-lapse video.
Yesterday I posted some photos from my recent trip up to Guyra for MooreMission 2012.
While we were there we did lots of driving. I decided I would take advantage of this by playing around with some time-lapse video.
Here is my first attempt.
Highlights include the Ebor falls and us changing a tyre on my car because I put a nail though it. Exciting stuff!!
MooreMission 2012
A couple of weeks ago I went on MooreMission 2012. You can learn more here.
I took a few photos during the week.
Here are some of them.
Sydney UNI elections
Each day, when I don’t drive into college, I walk through Sydney UNI. This is so I can look cool with all the trendy arts students rushing for their classes. It’s also because they sell campos 70c cheaper than further down the road in Newtown.
One of the great things about walking through Sydney UNI is when student elections are on. Last year my favourite slogan was “Zac to the future”. This slogan perfectly utilised the “Back to the Future” logo. I was so proud.
Anyway, student elections are coming up again. Here are some of the posters. I’m sad the Zac isn’t running again this year. It could of been brilliant.
Win a free copy of “Group Games”
If you are in youth or children’s ministry this might excite you.
When I was a youth group leader I had to prepare talks, prayers, supper to eat and games to play at the beginning of the meeting. Usually the latter of these things were done with much less preparation than the first things. Your experience might be the same.
It’s probably a good thing. Preparing your talk and the prayers should demand much of your attention. You don’t want to say incorrect things while you teach the kids. The games were usually under prepared, and not really thought out.
To fix this problem, my friend, Calum has created an iPhone app. It’s called “Group Games”.
The app is brilliant. Simply put, it helps you prepare for the game time of youth group by providing you a list of games that you can play easily, with or without resources. I especially like that way that you can select a game using a search involving the size of the group and the time a game is needed to run.
If you are involved in youth or children’s ministry, you should definitely check it out.
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I’m giving 2 copies away for free. The first 2 comments win. Simple.
MooreMission 2012 is here
It’s that time of year again. The time of year I am talking about is when all of Moore College put down all of the books about systematic theology, and goes out to do MooreMission.
This year MooreMission is bigger and better than ever. A friend and I have built a website to be the online hub for blogging and tweeting, and Anglican media are getting involved too.
I’m especially looking forward to Mission this year because:
a) Kirsty is coming along
b) We are heading to country NSW (Glen Innes, Guyra & Emmaville)
Tomorrow we are driving north to spend a night with Kirsty’s cousins in Coffs, before continuing on to Guyra on Saturday afternoon.
If you want to keep up to date with what is happening you can:
a) Follow all the action on twitter by looking at #mooremission
b) Head over to the website
13 print ad’s that wont get made again.
Advertising is important. We see it everywhere, all of the time.
Here are 13 terrible print ad’s that I doubt will ever be made again, for good reason.
Why is Good Friday, good?
This should clear things up.
Resources to use this Easter.
Easter is one of those times in the year where churches try to connect with those in their community who do not usually go to church.
In my experience, churches try to do things differently during Easter and Christmas. Sometime this involves singing different songs, having a special focus on welcoming and follow up of new people. Lots of churches try to show a video or two during the service.
If you want to do things differently, visually, he are some handy resources you can use. They are all free.
The Easter Story, by The Bible Society
You can download all of these for FREE by logging into vimeo.
Interactive Stories, by Church Media Videos
This is a little program you can download to use in your kids’ spot. It basically works as a animation creator. It is FREE, and is great for teaching bible stories to kids.
Easter at CreationSwap
This site has heaps of FREE resources. They are all still images, vectors and powerpoints.
Here is the link for their easter reasources.
Mirror Mirror by New Spring Church
This isn’t free. But it is brilliant. Might give you an idea for a video you could do yourself.
Easter, by Bjorn Amundsen
This video is a visual manifestation of some poetry by Sharon Irving.
You can download if from vimeo here.
Let me know if you have seen anything else out there. Ill be happy to add it to this post.
*** Update. Some extra resources. ***
The Last Supper, by SandBible.com
These videos aren’t free, but If you are in Australia you will be supporting a great Christian content producer.
You can see all their Easter videos here.
TIM STEVENS 