So… I don’t have an iPhone… yet! If I did these are the sweet apps I’d be using. I’ve already downloaded them!
Posts by Tim Lemons
Family Matters
Just watched Family Matters on Nick at Night. Laura said she was such a good salesperson she could sell suntan lotion to Michael Jackson. Thought that was hilarious!
Also a side thought, in the opening title the grandma is reading Rolling Stones and U2 is on the cover. How cool is it they are still doin it and doin it well?
Another thought, what has Richie been up to?
Great things at Newspring!
Love keeping up with what God is doing at Newspring! Perry and the staff are incredible down to earth Christ followers. Check out the news about their second campus.
Willow Creek Film Festival Winners
When I went to the Willow Creek Arts Conference they had a film festival. I was kind of disappointed in the videos. I was expecting way better quality and creativity. Go here for the videos that won the Film Festival. Remember, this was top of the list!
Lifechurch.tv's Internet Campus = SCHWEET!
Watching internet campus as I type this! Just some thoughts, observations.
- Welcome video from Internet Campus Pastor – said time to take offering and a paypal link popped up on the right.
- At the movies is series
- Awesome scenes for Craig – switching in and out of movie and sermon.
- Scripture background is something from scene Craig is in! Awesome
- Foley while Craig is talking, cars, buses, streets. same as movie
- Touching message, touching movie
- Interactivity – raise hand if your hurting click button that says raise your hand
- Raise hand for accepting Christ – would like to raise my hand to see about follow up, but did not
- oh, I get it anyways, they told me right after the prayer what to do! NICE!
- Raise hand for accepting Christ – would like to raise my hand to see about follow up, but did not
- Liked the podcast – esq video about Will Smith – curious if that was for internet campus only because of the “internet savvy” audience
- One suggestion – provide a place to meet people who want to meet people. I could invite friends from email, but no way to see who was there and connect with those people.
- ok, now that service is over I went to lobby and saw the chatroom. Just saw you could add friends. curious if you could whisper thoughts to friends during sermon like you can in a “brick and mortar” church.
Pretty Awesome! I will do my best to start watching on a weekly basis. Great place for me to get fed as a minister who is always “busy” during church services! Thank you LifeChurch and the digerati crew!
p.s.
Love that you use facebook – very powerful tool! Also terry storch, keep sending out twitters as reminders about internet campus so I won’t forget 🙂 Or does the internet campus have a twitter account?
Breakout D – Building and Leading a Music Ministry – Rory Noland
Calling all team builders – 1 cor 3:10
Suggestions for team building
- Visualize what it is you’re trying to build. (Cast a vision) don’t duplicate another church
- Question – within the next 5 years what would you like to see happen in your ministry? (services, volunteers, leaders, vocals, instrumentals, musical styles, level of musicianship, fellowship, discipleship, musical growth, spiritual growth)
- Communicate your vision in a compelling way
- remind them often
- you are recruiting people to a mission, not yourself
- Build your ministry one volunteer at a time
- not once in all of his years of ministry did he sit back and say, wow I’ve finally got enough volunteers
- challenge musicians to reach out to their talented friends
- Pray
- adopt a “go after them” mentality – Jesus went after his peeps
- Build your ministry around strong people
- Make sure your ministry is a safe place for an artist
- Encouragement is huge in an artists life
- Prov 3:27 – do not withhold good from those who deserve it
- Moses hired artists – when done he blessed them – he inspected their work and encouraged them
- Implement processes that work
- Constantly evaluate our processes
- Music selection
- if one person selects all the music it will lack variety
- use a team to select music
- have one non-musician
- make time to listen to new music
- Music preparation (meetings, rehearsals)
- spend time making sure everything is setup a head
- Think ahead of time about the layout of the rehearsal
- start with easy songs (ones they know) then throw the hardest one at them.
- if you can work with vocalist and artist separate that is the best in his opinion
- tell the vocals at what you want them to sing
- Evaluation
- This is how speak to each other
- Give your ministry a letter grade in terms of its processes. What can be done to improve the area that scored lowest?
- Is there anything you’re doing that’s inhibiting the ministry’s effectiveness in song selection, preparation and evaluation
- Don’t ignore problem, fix them.
- Question: are there any problems within your ministry that you’ve been putting off? How can you address them?
- A lady just asked I have a problem – I’m married to the Senior Pastor 🙂
- BE CONSISTENT
- The way we talk to each other is extremely important
- Question: are there any problems within your ministry that you’ve been putting off? How can you address them?
- Music selection
- Constantly evaluate our processes
- Utilize volunteers to help you manage your ministry more efficiently
- What do I need the most help with right now and are there any volunteers who could assist you in that task?
- Invest in the lives of your people
- do life together
- phil 2:19-20 – Paul was frustrated because he didn’t have others who cared like Timothy.
- Don’t be too busy doing God’s work that you’re not doing God’s work which is dealing with people
- Looking back on his ministry the people is the best thing that stands out, not a song, book, cd, event, etc.
- What specifically are you doing to invest in the lives of your volunteers?
- Live a sustainable lifestyle
- There is a crisis in our ministry today. People are working way too many hours.
- from me – Learn to say NO! enjoy the video below from Doug Fields I heard at a youth specialites concert
- Don’t stop being a musician just because you’re a leader
Innovate 2008 Trailer – did it's job
Saw this through kem‘s blog. I gotta say, it it did it’s job. I wanna go!
2008 MTV Movie Awards
Ok. I always watch MTV Movie and Music Awards. It’s a great place to see awesome technology and to stay up to date with what is going on in culture that I may have missed. I just forced myself to finish the last half of 2008 Movie Awards and I wish I could have that time back. Seriously. I want it back.
Basically all they did was take anyone who is coming out with a movie soon and pair them together to present awards. Boring. Mike Meyers opening video was right. It was all about shameless plugs. No awesome videos, no awesome live skits. Even the bands sucked, except for Coldplay doing Viva La Vida.
Curious as to everyone else’s thoughts. Any other die hard MTV Movie and Music Award fans out there bored with this years program?
Pics of Colorado
Hey, I have a lot to post about our trip to colorado. For now just enjoy some pictures.
Ken's Yes and No
It’s no secret that I love reading Ken’s Blog. Even though I am way behind in my blog reader (currently trying out google reader instead of bloglines, I’ll let ya know what I think when I’m done evaluating) I always stay up to date with Ken’s blog. He has a feature he does called Yes and No. I ran across this today and thought it was awesome! In my book it would definitely be a yes. Check it out!
