So I bought myself a Canon T2i, and so far I love it. It takes awesome pictures and amazing high def video. I am hoping that I will be even more inspired to be creative… I mean, I don’t have any excuses now… Not that I really did before.
Here’s a picture I took of the rain drops on a plant outside of the church building. I “tweaked” it in Photoshop and now here it is for your viewing enjoyment.
I borrowed my dad’s Nikon D90 for a little bit. I am thinking about getting a DSLR camera and there are some events coming up where I wanted a nice camera. Jill and I went to Orange City, IA to visit Alli and Jose, whose wedding I am officiating this summer. We were driving around and ended up at a large Catholic church. It was really beautiful, especially the stained glass. Here’s my favorite picture I took.
I saw this video on Josh Griffin’s site. It’s a video that Mariner’s Church did for their Easter services and it’s Awe-some!
I love Dropbox! For some time I had been looking for a way to keep files I was working on synced between my work computer and my laptop that didn’t include the use of a thumb drive. I just wanted it to do it automatically. Finally I found Dropbox. I don’t need to keep every file on my computers synced all the time, but I do have files that I am working on that need to be up to date. That’s where Dropbox comes in, and best of all it’s free, well up to 2GB.
Once you register, you install the program on the computers that you want to keep synced and start dropping files in the Dropbox folder. It really is that simple. You can also access the files from any internet enabled computer.
I can’t tell you how awesome it has been to do some work on a project on my laptop at home, and by the time I get to the office, it is already on my work computer. If you work on more than one computer, you need to get Dropbox. I am sure there are other sites out there that will do the same thing, but Dropbox is what I know, and it has always been good to me. If you want to sign up, you can use this link and both of us will get an extra 250 mb of space. It just keeps getting better and better!
Check out this link. 5 Reasons Why Your Ministry Should Use Dropbox.
One of my favorite personal accomplishments has been staying at our church for 5 years now. This is after staying at our previous church for 6 years. I know that there are many people who have been doing youth ministry at their churches for much longer, but it seems like such a trend to jump from ministry to ministry. I began to think about why we leave ministries. Sometimes we have legitimate reasons for leaving, other times, not so much. So, I have come up with some (what I think are) legitimate and non-legitimate reasons for leaving your current ministry. Oh, and I didn’t include “God called me” as reason for leaving because that would open up an entirely different can of theological discussion worms. Continue Reading…
