The latest from Ray Comfort’s “Way of the Master” ministry is terrific:
Archives For Ministry
I’m very excited that the proverbial “cat” is out of the bag about the complete rebranding of the Wesleyan Church’s magazine: WESLEYAN LIFE. I’ve been waiting a LONG time for this day to come and am SO excited to see our denomination make strides in the areas of design and identity. This new magazine is a huge step in the right direction for the Wesleyan Church. There a complete redesign of the magazine’s online presence here at wesleyanlifeonline.com, too.
Our denomination’s website puts it this way:
With the arrival of the fall, 2012 issue of Wesleyan Life magazine, many are commenting about the new look. One quickly notices the pages are wider, and the magazine has more heft, as eight pages have been added. But even more striking are the photographs and the overall new layout driven by creative director Kory Pence, whose fresh vision is largely responsible for the new design.
Also adding,
There is more technology included in this issue. By using QR codes, Twitter, Facebook, or visiting WesleyanLifeOnline.com, readers can download the entire issue to be read on mobile devices. This will be an interactive feature with links to further information, enrichment, and videos. The feature will represent the cutting edge of growth.
If you haven’t yet held the print-version in your hands, the .pdf is available for both download and online viewing.
A couple of images of some of the newly redesigned magazine:
I am SO THANKFUL for the talent, vision, and patience of my friend, K Pence in helping bring new life to this publication for our denomination!
A brand-new follow-up video from the creators of the KONY 2012 video and campaign released a couple days ago.
This video is a half-hour long, but definitely worth watching.
The behind-the-scenes look at what happened in the wake of their initial KONY 2012 video is revealing and honest.
If you think you knew the story behind the KONY 2012 campaign and got your information simply by watching the nightly news, this will help give a new perspective of the days surrounding some of what took place, especially in the life of Jason Russell (the Creative Director of Invisible Children) and Invisible Children as a whole.
I appreciate the honest, behind-the-veil look at the events that took place and the way in which Invisible Children is unrelenting in their pursuit to see Joseph Kony brought to justice.
Or, watch movie here.
Back in June of 2011 I placed a geocache just outside my office window. Ever since it has brought random strangers onto our church property and allowed some interesting conversations with people I would otherwise probably never have interacted!
What’s a geocache? It’s only the coolest ‘treasure hunting’ game in the world.
In a nutshell, geocaching is a hide-and-seek game where people have the opportunity to hide and seek various-sized containers for the sake of logging the find (on a log book IN the container and via the geocaching.com website). Some containers are large enough to place small ‘trade-able’ items (think Happy Meal toys) inside. These containers are hidden in specific locations noted online by their GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) coordinates. I’ve found geocaches in deep woods and in public cemeteries. Seekers of geocaches us a GPS to pin-point the location (accuracy varies, but is usually enough to find most geocaches) of the cache and find the ‘treasure’. It is a great way to get families involved in wayfinding, hiking, adventuring, and using cool technology like GPS for something more than finding the way to Grandma’s house.
I have been into geocaching for a few years now and personally logged over 130 finds.
When we moved to Shippensburg I knew I wanted to place a geocache somewhere on our church property to invite geocachers into our space for an easy find. I also knew that as a pastor of a small church in a rural setting it might open up conversation with those who would otherwise never pull into our driveway – if I happened to ‘catch’ a geocacher in the act of finding our cache.
I thought creatively about this idea and came up with a bird feeder cache idea that suction-mounted to my church office window. For the geocaching.com listing of our cache, I gave it the name, “Daily Bread 2” because I borrowed the idea of placing a geocache on church property from my good friend J Knepp who put one outside of my church office when I was a youth pastor in Indiana – and that cache, he named: Daily Bread which is still in play even today.
As a pastor I couldn’t think of any better way to invoke casual conversation with strangers right outside my office than putting a geocache within 20-feet of your office window. Sure I don’t get to see everyone who visits and finds our geocache, but when I do it’s always fun to strike up a conversation about something we both enjoy doing.
If you’re slightly interested in geocaching and want to learn more, be sure and check out the website here. It’s absolutely free to hide-and-seek caches (you can pay for a premium membership, but you don’t have to). There are even apps for most smartphones that would allow you to seek a cache that may be just across the street from wherever you are right now!
Some pictures of the geocache I’ve placed outside my office window:
to the casual observer, it’s ‘just’ a bird feeder, right?
closer inspection reveals that things aren’t as they seem initially. I printed the pattern of bird feed onto card stock and cut it to fit in the viewing window of the feeder. Inside the logbook is safe from moisture inside a bag. Other items frequent the cache when people trade things in and out.
my view from inside the office.
If you’ve watched any of the Republican or Democratic National Conventions over the past couple of weeks you’ve probably missed out on the closing benedictions that, in my opinion, SHOULD have been aired on the national television broadcasts.
Each of these four prayers included here for your viewing/listening pleasure is fantastic in its own right and well worth the few minutes of listening in my opinion. I’d love to know what you thought in the comments here on the blog.
Roman Catholic Archibishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC on September 6, 2012 | transcript here
Jena Lee Nardella addresses The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC on September 4, 2012 | transcript here –
Roman Catholic Archibishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL on August 30, 2012 –
Rev. Sammy Rodriguez addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL on August 29, 2012 –
Any surprises from what you heard/read?
