Friday, June 26, 2009

Life Saving Station - Free Video

Floodgate Productions is offering a video parable of the Life Saving Station as a free download for June. This is a powerful parable set in contemporary times, made up of elements everyone is already familiar with.

We've used it before during Vision and Values messages and Evangelism teaching - it will hit home and serve as a lighthouse of it's own for every church, warning us of the dangers of elitism, status, and exclusiveness and reminding us of the Work of God, saving people.

The ending will break your heart.

Free only during June, Life Saving Station; make sure your Pastor sees it so he can plan to include it in an appropriate future message.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Get Your Weekly Free Video


Every week www.motionloops.com gives away a free video loop. They even offer us a choice of video formats (NTSC/PAL) and filetypes (AVI/Quicktime). Sometimes the freebie is subtle, sometimes it's flashy; they give out a wide variety that reflects the breadth of their motion loops content for sale.

All you have to do is join the site - then sit back and wait for the weekly newsletter to remind you to grab the free video of the week.

This week it's a blue gradient falling fan-like construct called "Fan Out" from their v04 Subtle Influence collection. I've never seen them do a re-run on the freebies, either.

Freebies are a wonderful way to sample the quality and style from various video collections before you buy them. Go get yourself signed up!

Here's a big THANK YOU to the folks at MotionLoops for providing this opportunity!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

It's Trendy, it Loops and it's FREE!

@IgniterMedia has a free gift for churches right now (I don't know how much longer) - a trendy looping video.


I love how IgniterMedia always stays absolutely on top of current styles. This new free Painted Paper Nature video loop will blow you away. It's organic looking and will remind you of a hand-inked funky animation. It's so fresh, you won't want to miss it!

I used it for the 60 second greeting break after the first song from the band, and people seemed to really like it. It just LOOKS like so much fun on the screens, and is perfect for summer. It looks like there are more things in this style for sale, so don't overlook them.

Don't forget to leave them some love in a comment when you download it, or on their @IgniterMedia Twitter page.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Elevate - Do We?

A new video, Elevate, is not for the faint of heart. It's a relevant look at how real people might have come to your church on Sunday morning.

I adore many of the things produced by Floodgate Productions. For instance, at least once a month, our church uses their Welcome To Our Church video just before 10am on Sunday morning.

This new Elevate video will be on my favorites listing, too - I just sent the link to our Senior Pastor and hope he wants to use it.

It's 2 minutes and 50 seconds of honesty about God, about People, and about the Church. Without throwing stones, it will evoke thoughtful dialog about one's personal relationship with God through church and worship. I think it will do the same for even worship teams and church staff members.

This is a deeply introspective, message-driven video with a point for everyone who sees it.

Elevate - go preview it. It'll bless the socks off of you!

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Father's Day

What's your Father's Day celebration going to look like at church? We're going to use Being A Dad from Storytelling Pictures. You'll find it at SermonSpice.com:
http://www.sermonspice.com/product/26045/being-a-dad

I like the visual imagery of this little video and the carefully chosen, but sparse words used in the voice-over. It's just wonderful how it gives you little glimpses into the small things we all do because we love. If we were following our own (selfish) natures, we surely wouldn't sign up to do even half the things we do for those we love.

So what imagery and media are you using to honor Fathers this weekend?