Day: April 10, 2007

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easter welcome video


since i’ve combined my ministry blog with this (my random thoughts blog) you guys & girls from the random thoughts blog are going to have to put up with various ministry related things that i like, dislike, struggle with, or just want to remember. the above video is something i like.

it’s the welcome video from powell church in knoxville. i thought it was a different way of welcoming people to the service. i wasn’t there so i can’t say this for sure but it seems to me that if you walk into a service, the lights go out, and this pops up on the screen, i think whether you agree or disagree with the gospel story that you are probably going to at least think that something interesting is going to happen within that worship service. of course, i’ve been wrong before (allot). maybe some of my non-believing or non-church going friends could comment on that thought.

of course, i don’t have the technical know how of doing a video like this so don’t expect to see anything like it at parkview.

[tags]video, welcome[/tags]

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small things

you’ve already noticed this if you read my blog directly instead of through a feed aggregator but i’ve made a few small changes in the blog:

  • i’ve changed the blog theme. i like the new one better (obviously or i wouldn’t have changed it) and if you get tired of it all you have to do is click one of the boxes above to change the background.
  • i’ve combined another blog with this one – for the past three years i’ve run another blog with a different focus. it was more about ministry, rather than random thoughts, and thus i had kept it separate. it no longer makes sense to me to keep them separate and therefore i have imported all of the other blog’s entires into this blog.

i went to baton rouge laser tag with some of y’all tonight and it was a good, though tiring, night. i am convinced that GOD has some form of special punishment planned for little girls who pick just one person to follow and shoot during a game of laser tag. i’m not sure why but two middle school girls thought it was their lives’ mission to spend their entire night shooting at just me. everytime i started to get on a roll one of these girls would find me and kill me (they were so small that i couldn’t see them over any of the barriers). they would then stick with me and kill me for the rest of the game. i finally reach the point that picked one of the girls up and threw her over the rails. i then turned to the other runt and screamed “if you get within 25 feet of me i’m going to do the same to you!”

okay, maybe i only imagined that last part but i was really frustrated. the worst part was that they would just sit there and giggle while they were shooting me. argh!

[tags]laser tag, youth ministry, middle schoolers[/tags]