Sunday, September 4th, 2005
Check out the Father’s Love Letter, a 25 minute video of messages from God developed by Barry Adams in 1999. It’s been online ever since as a 9 minute preview flash animation and has been downloaded by millions of people. It’s now in nearly 50 languages.
Each picture and scripture text in the presentation encapsulates an encounter between God and his children. Brian Doerksen provides the soundtrack with his song, “Faithful Father”.
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Sunday, September 4th, 2005
Tonight we used an image from Heartlight Gallery to help us connect with God’s compassion for us. Heartlight Gallery is the visual archive of Heartlight Magazine, an electronic publication for Christians that’s been encouraging thousands everyday since it launched in April of 1996. Phil Ware and Paul Lee, residents of Texas, are the co-founders.
Heartlight exists to provide positive resources for daily Christian living. These resources include daily articles, devotionals, inspirational images, electronic greeting cards, discussion boards, Bible study and more. Many of Heartlight’s resources are available via email, as well. Heartlight focuses on positive messages that will help you live for Jesus today.
Heartlight also provides PowerPoint templates and backgrounds for worship.
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
I’ve been asked about resources for churches using PowerPoint. Here’s idea number one, Enhance.
Michael Jeffrey was youthworker with Wesley Mission Ipswich when he developed a multimedia experience for young people called “Simply Deep”. Out of that project came the idea of developing youth-friendly resources for churches using the revised common lectionary.
In 2002 Queensland was introduced to “Enhance: Year B”, with two animations for each Sunday in the lectionary. In 2003 we were given Enhance: Year C, and last year we were provided with Year A.
Over time the animations have got better and better. Visual imagery, text and original music are tied together to creative short inspiring flash animations that can be used as calls to worship, reflections, stories for children or as stimulus for prayer. The flash animations can be inserted into PowerPoint using SwiffPoint Player.
Enhance is produced by Digistry, a multimedia focused ministry of the Queensland Synod of the Uniting church in Australia. Digistry is accountable directly to Wesley Mission Ipswich and has partnerships with the Youth and Children�s Ministry Unit and the Bremer Brisbane Presbytery. Digistry seeks to create Christian Multimedia Resources that touch lives globally and develop project based resources and services grounded in the needs of the local community.
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