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I’ve just set up a new YouTube channel for the Queensland Synod, Uniting Church in Australia. Journey TV is an extension of Journey the magazine and Journey Online.

Pastors of the Future

The first video is a video I produced for the 2006 General Assembly to explain a new approach to commissioning and training lay pastors in the Uniting Church. Helen (Ennis) and Gary (myself) talk about what it’s like to be a pastor in 2012, looking back over four years of support, recognition and training.

The phrase, “From time to time and place to place” comes from the Uniting Church’s Basis of Union. It was the inspiration (you could sing it) for the brief musical piece I wrote for the beginning, middle and end of the video.

“The Uniting Church recognises that the type and duration of ministries to which women and men are called vary from time to time and place to place, and that in particular it comes into being in a period of reconsideration of traditional forms of the ministry, and of renewed participation of all the people of God in the preaching of the Word, the administration of the sacraments, the building up of the fellowship in mutual love, in commitment to Christ’s mission, and in service of the world for which he died.”

Vinni’s Yard

The second video is a sample from Enhance, a collection of Flash-based videos put together by Michael Jeffery and his team at Digistry. This clip retells Jesus’ Parable of the Vineyard (Matthew 21:33-46, Mark 12:1-12, Luke 20:9-19) through the lens of The Godfather. The script and music are by Joh Knijnenburg. I’m now working on a YouTube channel for Digistry.