Assists church leaders in moving past a dated multimedia or audio-visual mentality when producing media for worship. The digital culture values story and experience, which means that producers of eWorship in congregations will learn how to represent the Word as image and art in the production of digital eWorship media. New models for worship are offered, and tactics for change are proposed so that timid congregations, as well as small and medium sized congregations can become digial storytellers. System Requirements: DVD compatible with Computer DVD-ROM players and all DVD players (set top players). Click here to download Chapter 8.

Digital Storytellers: The Art of Communicating the Gospel (with DVD)

Politics & Social Sciences

Moore, Jason

Wilson, Len

Social Sciences

ABINGDON PRESS *

The Wired Church: Making Media Ministry is a methodological ("how-to") book plus CD-ROM for church staff and volunteers who implement multimedia digital technology in worship services and in Christian education curricula. Wilson's book is a text for staff and volunteers who implement the media ministry. Key Features: * Discusses methodological implementation for operating a media ministry at a church * Explains how to design eye-popping media * Provides guidance for building a championship team * Includes a description of the tools for and the costs of media ministry * Explains the shifts required in the rhetoric of church communication * CD-ROM provides a portfolio of eye-popping media, techniques, and recruiting tools Key Benefits: * Written in the style of the "dummies" book genre, Wired Church contains nuggets, tips, and fun metaphors. * Helps the media minister understand technology choices and focus on the right tools, at a thrifty price, for doing the job. * Helps the media minister recruit and retain volunteers into this exciting shift in local church communications. * Practical, how-to guide for starting a media ministry in any size church. * System Requirements: * 486 PC or higher * Windows 95 or higher * 16MB RAM * 12MB free hard disk space * CD-ROM drive CONTENTS Part1: Developing the Mission A. The Language of the Culture B. Integration C. Excellence D. Media Literacy Part 2: Designing Eye-Popping Media A. The AV Mentality B. The Metaphor C. Building Visual Elements--Basic Guidelines D. Other Important Details Part 3: Building a Championship Team A. Establishing a Game Plan B. Developing a Roster C. A Guide to Developing All-Pro Players Part 4: Buying the Tools A. The Phasing Plan B. Techno-heaven (or hell, depending on your point of view) Part 5: Appendix

The Wired Church: Making Media Ministry

Computers & Technology

Many churches use visual technology in worship. Yet simply adding a screen and projector in a sanctuary doesn't automatically translate into growth and revitalization. This book helps worship-screen producers learn to "speak" a visual language. These time-tested design principles provide a basic framework for developing a visual literacy. The accompanying DVD includes graphic tutorials for creating art in Adobe Photoshop/Elements, time-saving techniques for achieving special effects, and helpful websites.

Design Matters: Creating Powerful Imagery for Worship

Graphics & Design

Wired Church 2.0 is the go-to guide for church staff and volunteers coordinating multimedia digital technology for worship, the classroom, and marketing. Covering everything from website design and trends in digital media to selecting and training your media team. Len Wilson has been on the leading edge of creativity in ministry since his 1999 title The Wired Church: Making Media Ministry. Wired Church 2.0 is the guidebook for a new generation of technology, addressing new multimedia trends, including blogs, podcasts, streaming video, and more. Wired Church 2.0 is a comprehensive how-to book written in an easy-to-understand "dummies' guide" style. Church media coordinators will learn about the technology, costs, methods, and tricks-of-the-trade for producing high-quality web and video elements for worship, education, and marketing.

The Wired Church 2.0

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Pastors and church leaders in many congregations have attempted to form teams for the purpose of planning, or designing, worship. Getting a group of people together in one room is fairly easy. But whether large or small church, staff or volunteer, most discover that it is difficult to form a team that actually works. Using the metaphor of early flight, this resource analyzes how to be a part of a worship design team that works. Major sections include discovering a strategic approach to worship, tips for team composition, a look at how to overcome a series of obstacles that frequently keep teams from finding success together, and some of the usual “mechanical difficulties” that keep teams grounded.

Taking Flight With Creativity: Worship Design Teams That Work

According to a recent Gallup report, only 13% of people are "actively engaged" in their jobs, 63 percent merely put in their time, and the remaining 24% are actively disengaged. People are bored at work, at home, in personal habits, and in their spiritual lives. Over time a pattern of loss in vitality and a shift towards fear, comfort, and consumption is leaving them feeling unfulfilled and less creative. Think Like a 5 Year Old explores a documented phenomenon in which people almost universally exhibit genius-level creativity as young children but lose it as they become adults--and what we can do to reverse this trend. With this book, learn the story of your creativity: why you had it in the beginning, how you lost it, and how to get it back, to create great things. Wilson proposes that every person is called to a life of creativity. This means knowing how you are made, reclaiming your passions, learning the craft of creativity as an act of faith, and surrendering the creative process to God. "Having been made in the Creator God's image, we are born creative, yet we tend to agree in theory but disagree in practice," notes Wilson. "Respected creative thinkers such as Sir Ken Robinson, Paul Torrance, and Seth Godin offer insights, but the problem is that while everyone has this supernatural power within them, they've lost sight of it. They've given in to forces that steal and destroy our innate joy. We don't feel creative--and consequently, we don't feel fulfilled." Wilson redefines the word "creativity" using a framework of categories such as compassion, problem solving, engineering, and artistic expression. Creativity is about being attentive to and acting in response to the combination of ideas and reactions and preferences that form one's view of the world. This perspective, this unique form of expression, is the identity given to them by God and the origin of their creativity.

Think Like a 5 Year Old: Reclaim Your Wonder & Create Great Things

Dear Mr Len!

History

Xlibris Nz

For years Len's friends have encouraged him to write his travel adventures for all to read. He is widely acknowledged as a 'great story-teller' and enjoys entertaining his friends with travel tales or delivering power-point presentations to select audiences. Len's first overseas adventure was as part of a delegation of New Zealand University graduates to People's Republic of China in 1977 and he has been constantly traveling since then. This book covers over 40 years of travel to over 35 countries. Len's aim to to entertain and inform the reader and bring laughter to otherwise stressful situations.

For years Len's friends have encouraged him to write his travel adventures for all to read. He is widely acknowledged as a 'great story-teller' and enjoys entertaining his friends with travel tales or delivering power-point presentations to select audiences. Len's first overseas adventure was as part of a delegation of New Zealand University graduates to People's Republic of China in 1977 and he has been constantly traveling since then. This book covers over 40 years of travel to over 35 countries. Len's aim is to entertain and inform the reader and bring laughter to otherwise stressful situations.

'Solly' Mr Len

Booktrail Publishing

For years Len's friends have encouraged him to write his travel adventures for all to read. He is widely acknowledged as a 'great story-teller' and enjoys entertaining his friends with travel tales or delivering power-point presentations to select audiences. Len's first overseas adventure was as part of a delegation of New Zealand University graduates to People's Republic of China in 1977 and he has been constantly traveling since then. This book covers over 40 years of travel to over 35 countries. Len's aim is to entertain and inform the reader and bring laughter to otherwise stressful situations.

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Digital Storytellers: The Art of Communicating the Gospel (with DVD)

The Wired Church: Making Media Ministry

Design Matters: Creating Powerful Imagery for Worship

The Wired Church 2.0

Taking Flight With Creativity: Worship Design Teams That Work

Think Like a 5 Year Old: Reclaim Your Wonder & Create Great Things

Dear Mr Len!

Dear Mr Len!

'Solly' Mr Len

Dear Mr Len!