Multimedia
New: Godcasting (article on Reverend Craig Mischewski from Townsville Central Uniting Church, published in Townsville Bulletin February 08)
Mountain Masala - Mixing Faith and Culture (Craig Mitchell)
The Dig Tree Project
The Dig Tree project aims to help the church develop and use multi-media in an emerging culture. Part of the project will include online resources available for download. The idea is to essentially create an "open" publishing system that uses a copyright framework to enable participants to share resources without fear of breaking the law, but also protects interests of the original creator.
Fresh out of the Box (Abingdon Press)
Vol 2: Digital Worship Experiences for Youth Gatherings
A set of 10 digital experiences for use during youth worship. The book, containing the complete text of the services, and an introduction to putting it togetherr, includes a DVD that contains re-useable video clips.
Vol 3: Digital Worship Experiences for Advent and Christmas
This volume offers ten digital experiences for worship during Advent and Christmas.
Vol 4: Digital Worship Experiences for Lent and Easter
The fourth book and DVD in the series offers ten digital experiences for worrship during Lent and Easter.
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The Igniting Worship Series (Abingdon Press)
This series consists of resources to assist worship leaders in building an effective worship experience. The worship experiences are organised around Scripture and theme, and include brief biblical and liturgical comments, sermon outlines, calls to worship, prayers and benedictions. Some worship acts also include short dramas. The DVD's contain video clips suitable for projection in worship. Background worship graphics and bulletin covers are also included on the DVD's.
* Igniting Worship: Advent and Christmas
* Igniting Worship: Communion
* Igniting Worship: 40 days with Jesus
* Igniting Worship: Helping and Serving
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Engaging Worship: 20 Blueprints for Experiential Church Services
Twenty complete worship services that will give your church family an encounter with God that leaves their hearts tender and lives changed. Includes drama scripts and a CD-ROM full of images for use in backdrops or slide shows.
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Worship E-Motions
In partnership with Labora, this newly developed software enables you to capture hearts for God's glory. The DVD includes freestanding, high quality, moving visuals and carefully selected Scripture passages. Download colourful multi-media clips to use for transitions during worship, Scripture readings, Communion, benediction, offering, drama and more! Clips run an average of three minutes and can be looped for extended play. Easy to import into multiple projection software programs.
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Design Matters: Creating Powerful Imagery for Worship by Jason Moore and Len Wilson (Abingdon Press)
Many churches use visual technology in worship. This book helps worship-screen producers learn to 'speak' a visual language. These time-tested design principles provide a basic framework for developing visual literacy. The accompanying DVD includes graphic tutorials for creating art in Adobe Photoshop/Elements, time-saving techniques for achieving special effects, and helpful websites.
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Video Ministry: Using media in worship without going to Hollywood by Constance Stella (Abingdon Press)
This book offers solutions to practitioners of traditional worship. Thriving traditional churches sometimes denigrate video media as shallow. Constance Stella contends that the dualism between elite (deep) art and popular (shallow) art is false: all forms of art in worship have entertainment value. High-quality video media in traditional worship settings can indeed be used effectively to glorify God without drawing attention to performance on the screen.
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Worship Feast Prayer Stations: Creating Unforgettable Experiences (Abingdon Press)
Today's postmodern young people are not satisfied with merely observing worship: they want all-out participation in soul shaping praise to God. The CD-ROM offers a series of engaging, step-by-step video guides for helping youth leaders and youth put together prayer stations that will draw participants closer to God, and slide shows of striking still photos set to original ambient music. The CD-ROM also provides printable supply lists and reproducible handouts for prayer stations.
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Enhance Year A (Vol 3)
Consists of 108 animations. Each animation is a collection of original scripts, imagery, music and animation and is inspired by one or more of the weekly lectionary resources. Some are reflections, some are prayers, some are inspirational, thought provoking or challenging, some seek to introduce a theme or gather people in or send people out. Others are just plain good fun. The animations are indexed by title, theme and Bible reading, so you don't have to be using the lectionary to get great value from this resource. Enhance animations are designed to be run from the Enhance database or inserted into your church software presentation program.
Transformation Stations
Youth will encounter God in unique ways - and grow closer to Jesus - as they travel through multi-sensory and multimedia experiential worship stations. A CD packed with stirring music and intriguing images guides participants on a memorable, faith-impacting experience. Two different kits take young people on powerful explorations of their identity in God and living out their faith. Transformation Stations works great as a one-time event or as part of an on-going experience. Includes DVD case, CD and Leaders Guide.
* Discovering my identity in God
* Discovering my faith in God
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