if you are like me you use a lot of video stuff for ministry transitions as well as another avenue for getting a message across. i like using youtube & google video stuff, partly because someone has already thought of it and it saves me time. there are times however, that i wish i could trim a video for a variety of reasons. so i was pretty stoked when johnathan showed me keepvid. all you need to do is plug in the link to the video you are wanting choose the site location; youtube, google video, dailymotion, etc and then it produces a download link. you most likely will have to convert the video file, but after that you will be able to plug into a video editor or just to have.
Youth Ministry
contemplative youth ministry : refresher
refreshed myself with this video that jonathon did when we spent time being part of the contemplative youth ministry’s blog tour. it still rings powerful with me.
prayer of Brother Lawrence
Lord of all pots and pans and things..
Make me a saint by getting meals
And washing up the plates!
– Brother Lawrence
just thinking of part of my work today.
new to things supporting
i know that all you faithful readers check out every link that i post in those fun right hand columns. so it seems silly that i will bring to your attention a new icon in my "things supporting." i have partnered with the friends at youth ministry exchange and added myself into a new adnetwork. it might migrate later with a site redesign, for now it resides with my "things supporting" listing as any money generated from the ads will go to a chosen charity.
a new kind of youth ministry
i recently finished reading "a new kind of youth ministry" a book by chris folmsbee. chris is the president of sonlife ministries, which is training group for youth & youth ministers. recently they partnered with youthfront camps which, i think, is a great partnership.
the book captured my interests and ilk at the same. i liked the wordings in the chapter (mostly the chapter subtitles). the name of the book was ilk as i wreaks of trying to share in emergent book buying and coat tails of "a new kind of Christian." the two books are obviously not the same, but yet the title insinuates a similarity. i will chalk it up to publishers biz practice. happy to say, once i got passed the title thing i was pleasantly surprised.
for me, the book content was not "wow" material. i enjoyed it, i agreed with many of the statements it made. the solutions or re-framing that chris would present always seemed something that i could get behind and agree with. some things are still contextual and are probably common for a mainline church context. some things are new which affirmed things we have done with our ministry at hfumc, some we have left behind. some of the issues of youth ministry presented were certainly
bore out of an evangelical context so i could not really relate. this
gets kinda old for me and i always feel like i am saying "duh" which i
hate. i keep thinking that is elitist. overall, the questions raised and the conclusions he comes to are important for those in youth ministry today. probably the best part about it all, chris has some great wordings for many of the things you are probably feeling and trying to do.
since communication is, in my opinion, the key to getting stuff done in church (especially an established church). reading through how chris explains change will give you language to help express yourself. that is the greatest gift that "a new kind of youth ministry" brings to the world of youth min.