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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.

As a social misfit in middle school, and now someone who works with middle school students, this movie looks great.

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…

One of my “hobbies” is shooting and editing video. I recently got a JAG35 adapter for my Canon HV30. One of the things I wanted to get was a rail system for my camera. I decided that I would take this opportunity to build my own. So, here it is. It seems pretty simple, but it was a little harder than I thought. I am excited to see how it works.

This year I am going to try something new. It’s not a resolution, just something that I wanted to do. My goal is that each week in 2010 I will “create” something. It might be a painting or drawing, it might be a video or a picture, it might even be something out of wood or clay. I don’t know exactly what it will be, but I want to start getting the creative juices flowing. So, the plan is to have at least 52 creative thing by the end of the year. I will post them here for you to see, so keep me accountable.

My first project of the year was this video. It was done after our high school retreat. I hope you enjoy it.

I recently asked the question on Twitter, “What would you do if there was more than 24 hours in a day?” I got responses like “sleep”, “eat”, “spend time with my wife”, and my favorite – “complain about not having enough time”. I asked this because I have been wondering how I should be spending my time. Then this question came to me. What if there were less than 24 hours in a day, what would I do? Time would be at a premium, so what is most important? I’m still trying to figure this out, but how would you answer this question?