A couple weeks ago I purchased my first iOS device with Siri, and she has been making me look much better and more thoughtful in ministry. In case you haven’t begun to leverage her skills for ministry, here’s how I have been using her to make my ministry more...
This past Sunday marked week 3 of our series, "How To Annoy Your Family". It's a Doug Fields/Simply Youth Ministry series on family relationships. What Worked: For the past weeks we have had students on stage for interview style testimonies. We set up black leather...
Email is a constant struggle for me. Not matter how hard I try to keep up with my inbox it's constantly over flowing. Not long ago I saw this infographic over at Lifehacker. It hit a little too close to home. (Original Post: When You're Constantly Checking Your...
We killed the bulletin, and started a magazine!
I love "The Cloud." Apps like Evernote, GoogleDocs, iCloud, and Flickr are great for share and freeing up space on your hard drive through free online storage. One of my favorite cloud apps is dropbox. Dropbox is a free app and online site that lets you store pics,...
It’s been a month since this feature has gone live, but I am just now getting to reviewing it: GMail’s multi-account login. It is the perfect feature for those that have two or more GMail accounts that they actively use. I have been running three different accounts,...
Social media is a wonderful marketing tool, if used correctly, but just using it to link to your website is completely under utilizing the power that social media can provide for you. Social media should not be your only way to get your content to customers, but it...
I don't know about you, but I've always wanted to really learn to code. I feel like I know just enough to know about programming that I don't know what I'm doing. This weekend I stumbled upon Codecademy which is a free site that will teach you some basic coding /...
As I wrap up my involvement in a project for a local ministry as their free web consultant, I have some tips that I wanted to pass along to those who use web developers or web consultants. This has been a unique experience for me, as a web consultant does not actually...
How are you getting information to your students? Years ago you had to stick a piece of paper to a bulletin board and send home a newsletter. Remember having to actually cut clip-art out of a book? That used to be incredibly effective at getting information across to...
