Michael Jeffrey is posting one free shockwave flash animation each week at the new Digistry website, www.new.digistry.org as part of a lectionary-based resource for worship.
Each Monday Michael posts a list of 4 to 6 clips, for $5 US each, that will work with the lectionary readings for the upcoming week. He’s also providing some ideas on how the clip might be used.
This Sunday being the first Sunday in Lent, Michael’s posted Believe - focusing on themes of overcoming temptation, Are You Tempted, focusing on the way Jesus overcame temptation, (Luke 4:1-13), No Matter What - an off-the-wall cartoon starring Captain Sensible, (Romans 10:5-15), Hidden from View - a reflection on God’s help in times of trouble (Psalm 91), Consuming Fire (Deuteronomy 21:1-11) and The Word (Romans 10:5-15).
The Gold Coast will be invaded by youth ministry specialists in September this year. Chaplains, church youth pastors, government and community youth workers, teachers, university workers and any Christians that work with youth or young adults are invited to an event designed to help them in their crucial tasks.
The National Youth Ministry Convention (NYMC) is a four day event that brings together Christian youth workers from across Australia and New Zealand for a time of professional development, networking and refreshment.
It will be held from September 25-28, 2007, at Surfers Paradise in the heart of the Gold Coast. Delegates will attend one of six full day seminars, five general sessions and eight of 38 electives, in between forging connections with peers from around the region and enjoying the best the Gold Coast has to offer.
Elective sessions include.. “What Paris Hilton taught me about following Jesus”, “Working Alongside ‘At Risk’ Young People”, “Reading the Bible for a post-modern world”, “Empowering young people to change the world”, “Purpose Driven Youth Ministry”, a “Spiritual retreat” and 38 others.
On Friday afternoon I was part of a panel responding to Dean Hoge’s lecture on young adults in the Catholic Church.
Dean’s a Presbyterian who’s been lecturing in sociology of religion at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC for thirty years. He was part of the team that published the 1994 book, “Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers”. On Friday Dean was presenting research on Catholic young adults in the United States, to an audience consisting mostly of Catholic educators and youth ministry staff from Brisbane.
Dean Hoge is pictured below (left) with my fellow panel members Selina Harris (Sunnybank Catholic Parish) and Paul Mergard, (right) photographer and Salvation Army church planter in West End, Brisbane.
