The NWLC 2011 workshop, Building your social network, was co-taught by Matt Peterson (@mattofact on twitter) and DJ Chuang (@djchuang on twitter). Here’s the slides and links below that.
Turning the Key on Tech Buys A guide—and a grid—to process options before you choose one. (article by DJ Chuang in Church Buyer’s Guide, September 2010)
I attend a church called ROCKharbor in Costa Mesa, California, where personal technology was incorporated into the worship services this past weekend. A lot of people have cell phones with them, often perceived as a distraction rather than a way to engage more worship. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
After the sermon on Mark 6, worshipers were invited to respond by texting in their stories of how God has shown His goodness and faithfulness during the storms of life. Many text messages were submitted as the worship team led in a closing set of songs. Selected text messages were displayed on the big screen while singing continued.
Wow! What an engaging way to see & hear of God’s work in the lives of others in the same room as we worshiped together.
On a tech note, this was done using Google Voice, a free service that gives you a web-based dashboard to view incoming text messages. There are certainly other ways to gather text messages, like giving out your cell phone number, but you might not want to do that.
The National Worship Leader Conference 2011 is just 2 weeks away, and our weekly livecast series (with a livestream video and chat) today talked about the topic of how worship media are trans-generational. New media is not just for the younger generation! Every one of us in any generation have a vital role to play.
Watch the recorded episode from today on-demand (or previous episodes, too):
Every Tuesday leading up to the National Worship Leader Conference 2011, we have a livecast here (with a livestream video and chat) to accelerate the conversations about engaging God with new media technology. It’s all about what we’ll dive deeper into on-site at the one-day pre-conference MediaCon on July 18th, 2011 – hope to see you there! Our episode today was on the topic of worship and the arts. Watch the recorded episode from today on-demand (or previous episodes, too):
Peter Park has been blogging about multicultural worship at redemptionboulevard.com since April 2009. He’s currently the worship director at Aldrich Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, MN. I was encouraged to see his blog sharing resources and learnings from his experience in developing multicultural worship and got to capture this interview to learn more. Watch the video interview with Peter Park to learn what multicultural worship is and what it sounds like.
The latest issue of Worship Leader Magazine (June 2011) unpacks “12 Essentials to Engaging with God through Technology” using a book metaphor. And one of the articles, called chapters, was about about how new media multiples the power of prayer.
For your convenience, here are the links to websites and apps mentioned in that chapter:
