Wednesday and Thursday marked my first ever Upper Room all-staff retreat. I have to tell you, it was a great time. As my colleague, Steve, noted, it was a perfect mix of side-splitting laughter and deep, thoughtful conversations. We spent a good deal of time hashing out what some of our ministry objectives would be [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2008’
Strengths or Weakness?
As a staff, we are currently working through Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath. Strengths Finder 2.0 is a book with a companion online assessment to help you figure out your strengths (as you might have guessed). Personally, I’m a big fan of assessments. Someone wiser than I once said the unexamined life is not [...]
Networking: Not Just for Computers Anymore
I’m a big fan of networking. Networking computers, networking sound equipment, heck I’ve even got my TiVo networked to my Mac so it will play my iTunes library through my surround sound system. But that’s not the kind of networking I’m talking about. I mean getting out to meet people, key people who can help [...]
Lexicon Alpha Review
I’ve been using computers for presentation in churches for a number of years now. Because the software we use (Media Shout in the past, ProPresenter currently) makes it easy to run video clips right off those computers and integrate it seamlessly into the presentation, that’s what we’ve done. The downside of this has always been [...]
Holy Week
I guess if I were a serious blogger, I would have had this written last Monday. I was seriously tired, however, so it’s taken a while to pull this together. Holy Week at CPC/Upper Room is a busy time. From the Monday after Palm Sunday to Easter, we held 12 services. Thankfully, I only had [...]
New ProPresenter Tricks
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: ProPresenter is the most actively developed software I’ve ever seen. The programming team at Renewed Vision just keeps cranking out the revisions, fixing bugs and adding new features almost weekly. As we’ve been using it pretty heavily now over the past few weeks, here are some [...]
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