Great video from one of my favorite bands, mewithoutYou. Their latest album, It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright. is a gem.
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Great video from one of my favorite bands, mewithoutYou. Their latest album, It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright. is a gem.
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one month later, i have not stopped thinking…just lacked time to document my thoughts.
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at the beginning of April the CEO of Pixar, Robert Iger, was having to respond to questions about the commercial viability of Pixar’s latest film, Up. industry insiders were concerned that it wouldn’t have mass appeal for a variety of reasons highlighted in a New York Times article. Om Malik grabbed this gem of a quote for a blog piece based on the article:
We seek to make great films first. If a great film gives birth to a franchise, we are the first company to leverage such success. A check-the-boxes approach to creativity is more likely to result in blandness and failure.
as i’ve been studying church models recently (including reading Simple Church), evaluating the future of youth ministry (including the Seismos posts on this blog & reading Youth Minitry 3.0), and through a myriad of conversations & thought processes related to my vocational role in ministry, i think the Church has much to learn from Iger’s thought process. Read the rest of this entry »
Seismos is a gathering of 17 youth leaders from 4 states & 15 churches representing over 9 different denominations. We met for three days (April 20-22, 2009) to dig into what the future of youth ministry might be. Mark Oestreicher’s “Youth Ministry 3.0” formed the leaping off point for our discussion (many of our thoughts will make more sense if you’ve read it). On this eighth post (intro, first, second, third, highlight video, fourth, fifth posts), we’re looking at the first of four questions we really dug into. Read the rest of this entry »
Seismos is a gathering of 17 youth leaders from 4 states & 15 churches representing over 9 different denominations. We met for three days (April 20-22, 2009) to dig into what the future of youth ministry might be. Mark Oestreicher’s “Youth Ministry 3.0” formed the leaping off point for our discussion (many of our thoughts will make more sense if you’ve read it). On this seventh post (intro, first, second, third, highlight video, fourth posts), we’ve (finally) arrived at the point where we were ready to pick some topics to drill into more specifically. Read the rest of this entry »
Seismos is a gathering of 17 youth leaders from 4 states & 15 churches representing over 9 different denominations. We met for three days (April 20-22, 2009) to dig into what the future of youth ministry might be. Mark Oestreicher’s “Youth Ministry 3.0” formed the leaping off point for our discussion (many of our thoughts will make more sense if you’ve read it). For this sixth post (intro, first, second, third, highlight video posts), I’m going to outline our appreciative inquiry of Youth Ministry 2.0 & some of the questions that came up related to it. By the way, sorry about the delay since the last post…I’ve been on spring retreat with my middle schoolers & am finally back & recovered & ready to keep rolling on here. I’m interested to hear your feedback Read the rest of this entry »
check out this great little video that Tom Roepke put together using animoto (by the way, if you don’t use animoto, you should!):
more notes from our conversations to come over the next few days (week)!
Seismos is a gathering of 17 youth leaders from 4 states & 15 churches representing over 9 different denominations. We met for three days (April 20-22, 2009) to dig into what the future of youth ministry might be. For this fourth post (intro, first, second posts), I’m going to mention a few of the thoughts that were brought up during our first conversation & reflect on them as well as outline our appreciative inquiry of Youth Ministry 1.0. Read the rest of this entry »
Seismos is a gathering of 17 youth leaders from 4 states & 15 churches representing over 9 different denominations. We’re meeting for three days to dig into what the future of youth ministry might be. For this third post (you can see the first two here & here), we’ll dive into our first real discussion, which we used to list questions that had been raised the last few weeks as we’d read the book and thought about it. Some of these questions are very directly connected to material in the book and some are more general questions. The next several posts after this will include appreciative inquiries of Youth Ministry 1.0 and Youth Ministry 2.0, and then discussions of what we decided our top 6 questions were. Read the rest of this entry »