After two years of creating quality content as eight20eight, they decided to change their name. Now known as Soul Refinery, they will continue to create quality media that they hope will ignite the heart and refine the soul.
To celebrate the change and launch of soulrefinery.com, they are giving away two free Christmas motion loops.
While you can find their content wherever quality videos are sold, they hope you’ll consider supporting us directly by visiting soulrefinery.com. There you’ll find their entire collection, including films that feature stars from hit TV shows as The Offce, Community, Reno 911, Saturday Night Life, and others.
They also now offer the entire motion loop and countdown library that they recently purchased from our friends at Eleven72 — revamped and available in HD!
My friend, Travis Reed, and the peeps at The Work of the People are offering a new FREE Christmas video. I figured: Who doesn’t want to know about a free Christmas media resource? So I’m letting you, my friends, know. To get the video seen below, go HERE and use the promo code: freetwotpchristmas
For fans of WILCO, IRON AND WINE, DAVID BAZAN, SUFJAN STEVENS, DEREK WEBB – you might dig So Elated’s new Christmas album “The Bewildering Light”. You can get it for FREE by telling 5 friends or pay what you want. I’m always looking for fresh sounding Christmas music – especially stuff with a Sufjan Stevens flavor to it. Check it!
YouVersion Live gives you a way to interact with church services and other live events using your mobile device. You can follow along with message outlines and take notes, read related Bible verses and click through to the expanded passage, vote on a poll and see the results live, ask questions anonymously, give, request prayer, and take it all home with you on your phone. It works with any web-enabled phone, as well as any computer with an internet connection.
As a former worship pastor, I’ve followed Shaun Groves for a while. He’s been in my CD rotation and has greatly encouraged me through his music. I especially appreciate his Kingdom heart, his work with Compassion and the poor. He’s a great guy and I encourage you to get to know him if you don’t.
By the way, his song “Should I Tell Them” is one of my all-time favorite songs. I can’t tell you how it ministers to me before I speak to a group of people. You’ve got to check it out!
I hope you had a Merry Christmas and would like to wish you a Happy New Year. We left 12/26 to go to visit family in South Carolina. I went to NewSpring Greenville on Sunday (more about that later). We travel today to Asheville, NC to visit more family. I hope we see some snow!
Also, today is my 13th wedding anniversary. WOW – time flies!
I want to remind you that tomorrow is the deadline to get that special discount for Q. Remember to use the promo code (Church20) to save over $150. Also, you can connect via the Facebook Church 2.0 Q event page HERE.
Also, be aware of where you can catch me early in ‘09. I’ll be speaking in January and February here:
January 8: ChurchTechCamp Dallas – get connected HERE
January 27-28: Leadership Network’s Innovation3 – register HERE
Feb. 17: Church 2.0 Local Forum – Phoenix (register HERE on Facebook and HERE if not on Facebook)
Feb. 17-19: Church Solutions Conference – register HERE
So, early in ‘09, I’ll be speaking twice in Dallas, twice in Phoenix and once in Irvine, CA. I hope you can make it to one of those. NOTE: The ChurchTechCamp Dallas, Church 2.0 Phoenix and The Idea Camp are all FREE! More dates and cites to come soon.
Today, friends, I’d like to tell you about FreeFoto.com. When I spoke in Boston I met a new friend, Colin Britton, who I had been chatting with online for sometime and actually helped organzize my Church 2.0 Local Forum there. Colin is the co-founder of FreeFoto.com. They are a GREAT resource for you to check out and use.
FreeFoto.com is made up of 122886 images with 157 sections organized into 3386 categories. FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet (link back and attribution required). See FREE USE RULES. The comprehensive, yet easy to navigate site, offers images that are free for on-line use, with higher quality versions available for sale.
Also non-commercial users may download their web size images to use off-line in school projects, church services, cards, leaflets, etc. Basically if your off-line use is not commercial you can download their web size images for free. FreeFoto.com features exclusive images found nowhere else on the web with new pictures being added every week.
*** Hear me: If you’d like to find some FREE pictures to use for your church/ministry website, bulletin, newsletter, etc – you’ve found a new resource here.
Times are tough and I respect Igniter Media Group for trying to help out. Below are graphics from their newsletter they sent out yesterday. I have everything that Igniter has ever done in my media library. If you don’t, this might be a good opportunity to add them to your collection.
If you’re a member of my Church 2.0 Facebook group, you may remember me saying that one of the chapters in my book is on my being a good steward of God’s creation and a witness to the world. I’m collecting stories of churches that are making efforts in this area – Green Churches. If you are a “Green Church” or know one, please email me (greg@gregatkinson.com) and let me know.
Take a look at THIS list of 50 things you can do to help.
* Not a member of my book’s Facebook group? You need to be. We crossed 1500 members last week! Not sure about being on Facebook? Download the FREE eBook “Facebook for Pastors” and read the Foreward I wrote. Right now, over 10,000 people have downloaded the eBook!
