Archive for December, 2008
Google Video Chat
Posted on 18. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
I remember visiting the Sharper Image store when I was a kid and playing around the video phone. I don’t know if it really was an actual product or just a gimmick. Well, the video phone never really caught on like it was envisioned in the 80′s, but video conferencing is alive and well. I first started dabbling in this five years ago using an external web cam and yahoo chat. In recent time I’ve used skype to video chat with my missionary friend in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Now that I have a Mac, I absolutely love iChat for the 2 or 3 people I use it with(except it’s only available for Mac users… come on Steve Jobs. I’m not drinking your cool aid and your closed and proprietary products don’t impress me, no matter how “great” they are.… Read the rest
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Children’s Ministry in Portables: Part 3
Posted on 18. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
We found our portables.
There is one main reason why I dont’ love portables. They’re freakin’ ugly. We picked out two portables that looked very similar to each other. They’re used portables from Colorado. Enjoy the pics.
My favorite part is all the wood paneling. Honestly, do they make these things ugly on purpose. It was only a few years ago that someone had the bright idea to make a computer a different color than beige. Now it’s almost impossible to find a beige computer. What’s up with the innovating trailer colors. Not really a fight I have any interest in taking on though.… Read the rest
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What happens when youre baby sitter is a photographer?
Posted on 18. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
This week Titus went to the sitter’s house while Sara went to a meeting. The sitter is a friend of ours as well as a photographer. Later that day she send me this link. How awesome is that?
I rarely post pictures of my family on this blog. So here is my little boy that makes his daddy so proud!
For more information on our photographer, check out her site here!… Read the rest
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Gateway Church: South Campus Remodel (Part 1)
Posted on 17. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
Okay, I have need of a little collaboration. I had the opportunity to go to the South Campus of Gateway Church today. It had been about three months since I last attended and a visit was long overdue. Since we started small group up north, I’ve been preoccupied on Sundays. I know that I need to head South every other week if possible. They are without a Children’s Pastor right now, so we have a part time coordinator who is keeping things going.
So, I have some money to spend, specifically to spruce up the facilities. I probably have a greater need than money, but I think I’ll be able to do a lot and make some significant improvements. I know that environment is so HUGE and right now it’s one of the things we’re missing right now.… Read the rest
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Sharing the comment love
Posted on 17. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
I just found a great new WordPress plugin. It’s called commentluv. If you have a self hosted WordPress blog, I totally recommend loading and activating this plugin. The beautiful thing about blogging is the inter-connectivity of most blogs. It’s like a giant web of connectedness. Most of the blogs I follow I’ve found through reading comments on other blogs or through links. Comment love takes this to another level. When you leave a comment on this site, you have the opportunity to type in your website. If your website has a RSS feed (like your blog) commentluv will try to find it and post a link to your most recent blog post as an attempt at a little cross promotion.… Read the rest
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Help me build my worship playlist
Posted on 17. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
Okay, I’m planning to take a solitude day on Thursday. Gateway gives full time employees one paid solitude day a month. Guess how many I’ve taken so far. Yeah, that’s a big fat ZERO! I know I need this right now and I need it to be a discipline in my life, so I’m going to practice this on Thursday. It’s going to be in the 70′s, so I plan to find a place to hike and practice this thing. I’d like to spend some time in personal worship, but I haven’t gotten any new worship music in over year. If you were going to build your personal “extended” worship list for a day alone with God, what would you include?… Read the rest
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Josh Kornberg and Give a Kid a Christmas 2008
Posted on 17. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
Okay, this post is really about a simple video you’ve gotta see. It’s a powerful audio and visual demonstration of lives being changed in Africa. So, take five minutes and watch the video, you’ll be glad you did.
Now this video is a little of my “worlds colliding.” You’ve seen me post quite a few times about my friends Joel and Heidi who serve as missionaries in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Well, this summer my intern, Josh Kornberg (you an call him Korndog) met Joel and Heidi and decided to go to Africa to participate in Give a Kid a Christmas. You may have seen me write about Josh, or more notable, Karl Bastion, as he made a HUGE deal out of the Korndog at Kidology U as described in this post.… Read the rest
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Children’s Ministry in Portables: Part 2
Posted on 17. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
I’ll be frank. I hate portable buildings. I think it sucks that we have to move into them. There, I said it.
However, there is another side to this. I love that we have to move into portable space. That means we are growing. I’m also glad to be a part of a church that is willing to do it right. I’ve seen some crappy looking portables and I thank God that by the time we move in, these portable rooms will be very similar to any of the other rooms in our kid’s area.
The first thing we had to decide was who would go into the portables. Typically I don’t know that my first choice would be early childhood.… Read the rest
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My Multi-Site Makeover
Posted on 16. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
Probably over a month ago I created a new page on my blog and posted pictures of Gateway’s South Campus. It needs a SERIOUS overhaul. I went in about 6 weeks ago, took picures, uploaded them to this page and had some people (people doing the portable thing right now) give me suggestions. Some people sent me pictures, so I included them as well. You can check out this page right here!
I have a limited amount of money to spend right now, so I’m tackeling this thing one room at a time.
I’m actually going to take this page down and turn it into a blog post. As I spend the money, order furniture and equipment I plan to put that information on the blog here… so it fit better as a series of posts instead of a static page.… Read the rest
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Soul Revolution at Gateway Church and the 60-60 Experiment
Posted on 16. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
The following article was just published about the 60-60 experiment we just wrapped up as a part of Soul Revolution. I know I’ve written about it some in this blot, but this article sums up what happened very nicely.
Read the artcile here.… Read the rest
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