Churches want to be able to record and produce quality video but some don’t have the funding or expertise to deal with HD cameras and video editing software. I just posted a video to Facebook and YouTube using a used iPhone, a $59 microphone, an $11 tripod, and free video editing software for iPhone. You…
I love trying new things. More than that, I like helping other people and churches try new things. It is one thing to play and another thing to implement. Before we decide to invest the time, effort, attention, and funding it takes to get a new thing off the ground, we really need to spend…
Who knew there were so many choices? Recently, a pastor asked for a little help with some software. She serves at a small local church and wants to move from a paper-based membership roster to a more robust electronic system. Due to budget constraints, the pastor wanted to know if there were any low-cost…
What I Have Learned So Far In my last post I wrote about the potential of eLearning in helping people grow as disciples. As was discussed in the comments, eLearning will never replace personal relationships as a path to growth. However there are great possibilities as we work in this new reality where schedules are…
This past weekend, I was asked to present some basic training on some tech tools that can help us work better together when we are far apart. As I was thinking through the training it occurred to me that someone had likely done this before. Indeed. If you have heard of skype or dropbox and…
Okay, the title is a bit of a hyperbole. I certainly can LIVE without tech… sort of. Being a pastor becomes a little different every year. It seems there are fewer and fewer pastors and more and more people with new and different expectations. There is also a new challenge of finding ways to reach…
