11 things I’ve been up to lately

Recently I’ve been up to a lot of things. It’s been kind of a blur as I really don’t remember everything but like I was learning in December you sometimes have to say no to good things so you can say yes to better things. Posting about conferences and resources and images are a good thing but sometimes it’s good to be real when blogging too. So the point of this post is for those of you who want to know what I’ve been up to and what I’m learning about.

• Continuing to learn coding. Holding off on Javascript for now and read through html and now working on CSS when I remember with w3schools.com.

• Learning more about youth ministry, children’s ministry, media ministry, worship ministry, social networking, etc through different webinars and tweet chats.

• Trying to hang out online more with those on my team and those in my LifeGroup.

• Tracking what I eat, drink, vitamins I take, etc for the herb lady. So much fun..not.

• Thinking about upcoming online conferences like Verge 2012 and Groundswell later this week.

• Attempting a stand up desk in the closet..yes strange..but it works and is an in the corner mostly enclosed space..lighting/noise/open space is distracting.

• Modified a recipe that had too many directions and it turned out fine. Raisin bars are good.

• Seeing cousins, signing a song, and seeing old friends at my mom’s home church last night during their talent night.

• Church, church, and more church including Church Online.

• Working on projects, sharing free resources, and finding new sites with free background loops and images for worship.

• Learning new thing for song slides and being creative with them.  Background ideas, that PowerPoint is not made for looping backgrounds even if it does work with them in there.. spacing the lines, and just how all of this contributes to the atmosphere of worship.

What have you been up to or learning lately? Any new things or ideas you’ve been discovering about media or another ministry?

Catching worship at Lakewood Church Online

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Catching the worship service at Lakewood Church Online before heading to LifeChurch.tv Church Online. It’s great to see how other churches worship, choose songs, and put the lyrics on the screen as well as just worship before serving. Lakewood does a great job of combining contemporary and traditional and making it a great service for everyone. I recommend you check them out sometime!

It’s what I’ve been thinking about

28 Great Posts on Social Networking

1. 11-Point Facebook Checkup – Social Media Today
2. A Social Media Strategy: Facebook – ChurchMag
3. A Social Media Strategy: Google + – ChurchMag
4. A Social Media Strategy: Twitter – ChurchMag
5. Do You Need a Social Media Strategy? – ChurchMag
6. 28 Killer Social Media Resources to Step Your Game Up – Justin Wise
7. How Timeline Radically Changes Your Facebook Marketing Strategy – Hubspot
8. How to create News Feed-worthy Facebook Content - SmartBlog
9. 7 Practical Ways Organizations Can Leverage Social Media – Big Is The New Small
10. FREE Social Media Handbook for Churches – ChurchMag
11. 3 Ways to Boost Interaction With Your Facebook Fans – Social Media Examiner
12. 58 Things Social Media Newbies Say & Maybe You Should too!? – The Marketing Nut
13. 4 Ways to Increase Your Facebook Page Visibility – Social Media Examiner
14. Five Tips for Marketing on Twitter – For Dummies – Dummies.com
15. 15 Ways to Measure Your Ministry Social Media ROI – Justin Wise
16. The Internet is Not a Megaphone – Church Marketing Online
17. Five Lies About Social Media Marketing – entrepreneur.com
18. OurChurch.Com Launches 50 Point Social Media Review Service – Christian Web Trends
19. 5 Tips for Creating More Efficient Social Media Processes – Dave Peck
20. 4 Ways You Can Improve Your Online Marketing Today – Christian SEO Guys
21. 7 basic rules of Twitter etiquette – CMConnect.org
22. How To Be Effective on Twitter – Big Is The New Small
23. How to use Facebook to connect with families. – Sam Luce
24. 2 Things That Will Kill Even the Best Social Media Strategy – Christian Web Trends
25. “Rule of 3″ Twitter Strategy: Balance -> Information ->Reciprocation ->Conversation – Warrior Writers
26. Series: 7 Practical Steps to Getting Starting in Social Media – Christian Web Trends
27. Useful Tools to Effectively Connect with Your Followers on Twitter – Dallas Data Center
28. How to: Become Valuable on Twitter (Top 10 ways) – Blog – Orange Leaders

What is one of your favorite posts on Social Networking?

C3 Conference 2012 – Night 3 Notes – At Boshoff & Stovall Weems

Speaker 1: At Boshoff 

3 things every child of God should know -

1. All things work together for the those who love God.
2. God is for you.
   • I’m more than a conqueror in Jesus’ name.
3. Nothing can separate you from the love that God has for you.

Speaker 2: Stovall Weems – “We Are The Church”

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. - John 3:16 

• It’s a shame when the church is not alive for God.

 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.

He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lordsays: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army. – Ezekiel 37:1-10

• The purpose of God is in your marriage, church, kids..the purpose of God is in the bones.
• Ezekiel didn’t know that the bones were God’s. Anything that belongs to God has purpose.
• Ezekiel – you need to prophesy.
• If you can’t stand for God in the church you surely can’t stand for him in the world.
• We’re the church.
• We are the church. God is doing something. People are hungry for it.
• We are the church. We’re all God’s got! There’s no plan B!
• If you are reformed that is fine but you need to be revived!
• If you’re not careful today’s relevance will become tomorrow’s religion.
• When revival meets relevance the church will have a major breakthrough and a revolutionary move of God!
• When revival (wind) meets relevance (form), the church will see a revolution like its never seen!
• We are the Church!

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* These are my notes and may or may not be At, and Stovall’s exact words. 

Links - 

• At Boshoff – Christian Revival Church, Stovall Weems – Celebration Church
•  C3 Conference 2012
• C3 Conference 2012 – Night 2 Notes – Judah Smith
• C3 Conference 2012 – Night 2 Notes – Steven Furtick