Twitter

Yesterday I started an account with twitter. Why? Well I think it is interesting to know what other people are up to and I think that maybe some people might be interested in knowing what I am up to. If you have never heard of twitter basically it is a service that allows users to update your “followers” (which could be family, friends, or co-workers) how ever often you want with whatever is on your mind. The great part is that it must be under 140 characters. Short simple and sweet. You can check out twitter by clicking here or check out my twitter page by clicking here!

Ministry and Facebook

It seems as though if you don’t know what Facebook is your out of the loop. I have been pondering recently how we can use the technology and concept of a social networking site like Facebook. The fact of the matter is that hundreds of thousands of people are using Facebook daily and its not just the 20 something generation. More and more Facebook is being used by older generations because people just genuinely have a desire to connect with friends, family, co-workers and just keep in touch with the latest photos, videos, and life’s stories. I have had a Facebook account for a couple of years now, at first I was resistant to using the technology but recently I have been thinking of the ministry potential. Internet evangelism day is this Sunday. Today I completed setting up a Facebook group for our Church. Yesterday I started reading this e-book. Check it out here! What do you think? Is Facebook a ministry tool or just a secular networking site?

Successful Theme Graphic

Starting this past Sunday here at Pequea Church we launched a new series called “Most Embarrassing Moments.” For each message series that we do I create a graphic that represents or enforces the theme. This is a great way to have your church family identify and remember a topic or idea. When they visit our website, see our bulletin cover, look at the projector screen, or LCD TV in the welcome center, the same graphic is portrayed as a reminder of this theme. One of our preaching pastors is currently evaluating some of the most embarrassing moments in church history and how today we can avoid similar moments. As a metaphor to this concept we used, what many can identify as an embarrassing moment: “school photos”. We collected a few school photos from people in our church and used them in our graphic. I am convinced that the more you can create participation they better a project will be. It is not always possible to do this mind you, but I try and incorporate our people, as much as possible in our graphics. One way that we created interaction was to allow the congregation to guess who the school photo was a picture of. Our church is at a size where this is still feasible to do. They could check out our website after church to see if the guess was correct, and see a modern day photo of the featured person. Not only was it a buzz during yesterday’s church service with people trying to guess the photo but it drove people to our website to find out who it was in the photo! People assimilated the theme and metaphor, that’s what we strive to do and I love it when it is successful! I have attached the series graphic so you can see how we used it!