youth ministry, web design, writing, photography by Gavin Richardson
I just watched this video below put together the by United Methodist Church’s General Council on Finance and Accountability. There are some seriously sobering statistics in here that deal with the hard numbers of money. To not paint this as total doom and gloom they highlighted that the church was still doing good work (and [...]
A number of years ago when the Episcopal church has elected Bishop Gene Robinson and had gone through the turmoil of theological, ethical, and cultural debates of gay clergy and affirming those positions there were many from the Episcopal church. Not just because of that reason, there were a few localized reasons, my friend Thomas [...]
I’ve been at Perkins School of Youth Ministry this week teaching a number of topics. One of my classes is on the web, one of my ‘short shops’ was on “Brand YOUth Ministry.” The big one for me was teaching a class on moving from surviving in youth ministry to thriving in youth ministry. At [...]
Friends at United Methodist Communications sent me a copy of their media pack for “A Life Giving Christmas” as part of their ReThinkChurch campaigns. I thought it’d be something pretty lame that I wouldn’t want to pitch, but it really isn’t. I wouldn’t go so far as to say its the next best thing, but [...]
so why not! on monday i gave out medals for the top john wesley moments on youtube. figured i'd give out medals for methodism realized over youtube.. why not! this list i couldn't help but get onto some of my soapboxes, so i hope you don't mind some of my subjective judging.. feel free to [...]
as i look over the church landscape & how they use technologies, i started wondering.. how is our church founder, john wesley, being represented on youtube? and with looking over all this (and the winter olympics in play right now), i decided to medal the top wesley moments on youtube. gold: john wesley chapel [...]
kleenex & tissues and the Holy Spirit from Gavin Richardson on Vimeo. last week i went to hang with my friends at the nashville cohort. we had our annual, ‘what are you thinking about’ session. one of the questions had to do with the our understanding of the Holy Spirit and how to communicate to [...]