Welcome back everyone! I hope you’re having a wonderful week. I just returned home from a great night out with my wife, and good friend Jayme Braun. He was in town with his band for a gig they had at the FBR (Phoenix) Open and invited us over to see the show. It was great [...]
Worship Presentation Made Easy
In celebration of the newly released ProPresenter version 4, I wanted to take a few minutes and introduce everyone to the incredibly powerful and user-friendly lyric presentation software that’s being used in churches and ministries around the nation. However, in order to understand the ease of use and power behind ProPresenter, it’s [...]
I’m finally back!
Hello readers and friends,
It’s been a few weeks since I last surfaced here at NMM.com. Please, forgive me. It’s been a CRAZY hectic time in my life (my wife and I bought a house, I’ve been knee deep in work for the Cardinals even though its the off-season, school is back in session, [...]
One of the main goals that we would like to accomplish on New Media Ministry is to provide youth ministers with some new tools and resources so that they can in turn get to work in implementing these into their ministry. Chris Faddis wrote two weeks ago about the importance of connecting through text messaging, and I hope that many of you have given a shot at trying text messaging in your ministry. If not, read the post and try out the service for free that we recommended.
I wrote a review of a cool product last week called YooStar. YooStar is basically a video kit that allows you to superimpose yourself in the place of some of your favorite characters in videos. This is a great product for creating hype and promotion in your ministry.
I wanted to take a quick look today at a few ways that you can and need to begin utilizing video in your ministries. You might be a little intimidated to try and get involved in ministry because you think cameras are real expensive and editing takes a lot of knowledge, etc. But times and technologies are changing. We’ll cover this later on down the road.
Are you always looking for a fun and creative new way to promote your youth ministry events? Do you find yourself wanting to reenact and repurpose scenes from your favorite movies to go along with a theme you might have for a youth night, event, or even retreat? If so, we’ve got a cool new product we want to introduce to you today: YooStar.
The Yoostar System is a collection of the following pieces:
It’s been a few weeks now since we started this thing here at New Media Ministry. It’s been a few years, however, from the beginning of my time as a designer. For the few years that I’ve been designing, my main market has been the Church and ministry organizations. What I’ve heard from our new friends (via the site, Facebook page, Twitter, etc.) about their perception of design is not much different than what I’ve heard along the way from my clients and friends in ministry.
The overwhelming consensus is that great design really does matter. People know (without maybe being able to articulate why) that design has an effect on their audience and there is an understanding that relevant and great looking promotional materials make a difference in the response they get from the people they’re ministering too. Unfortunately most of the time, this understanding is coupled with the reservation that spending time learning design concepts or even hiring someone to help make materials is just too expensive and too time consuming. So how can it be that a fundamental part in the process of evangelization isn’t worth investing in? I think there’s a relatively simple explanation for this.
