As part of the creative team for Woodland, part of what I do is find creative elements to use in the services. As this weekend is Valentine’s weekend I found this hilarious clip from the Skit Guys called Love Words, enjoy!
I was going through my twitter feed tonight when I came across a tweet that got me to go to Amazon.com and on their front page they were talking about their use of Frustration-Free Packaging. It’s not totally new but it was the first time i’ve actually read through the page, the one that got my attention:
What’s the difference between Certified Frustration-Free Packaging and traditional packaging?
The Certified Frustration-Free Package (on the left) is recyclable and comes without excess packaging materials such as hard plastic clamshell casings, plastic bindings, and wire ties. It’s designed to be opened without the use of a box cutter or knife and will protect your product just as well as traditional packaging (on the right).
Did you get that? They want to take away all the crap that gets in the way and allow you to get to what you really want. Sound familiar? In church it seems to be the same way many times there’s lots of crap we have to get through to get to what we are really searching for, the Grace and Love of our Savior. But how many times have people not gotten to that because there’s so much crap in the way? They have to get through all the “church” to get to the Christ. All the rules and regulations that people have created that actually stop people from the relationship. When people are worried more about where to park, what to wear, or all the other things than being able to forget about all these distractions and begin to on what God is trying to share with them that day.
So what are you doing to make it easier for people to reach Christ?
Click the picture above for the album of pictures from the 2009 Navajo trip
Navajo Mission 2010
Black Mesa, NM & Window Rock, AZ
June 11th – 19th
Each year Woodland sends a team to New Mexico to minister at the Navajo Reservation. They work mainly with three organizations: Western Indian Ministries, Forest Lake Baptist Church in Black Mesa, and Rez Refuge. Ministry opportunities include: construction and renovation, distribution of clothing and health care supplies, outreach at local orphanages, and senior craft seminars, as well as many other opportunities to serve.
This summer a group from Woodland will once again be heading out including, Shana (my wife), and I. This years project list isn’t finalized as we try to find out from the people what the greatest need is and assist in those areas. along with the projects listed above. I will once again be helping out with their wireless networking, computers repairs and upgrades, and implementing a backup system at the school. We ask for your prayers and financial support as we prepare for this trip. We also are looking for computer, monitor and networking equipment donations.
If you are Anyone responsible for Information Technology in a ministry setting … Business Admins, IT Directors, Network Admins, Helpdesk, staff or volunteers … regardless of church/organization size, then You will NOT want to miss this amazing opportunity to learn from your IT peers from across the country! Check out the CITRT website for all the latest details:
http://citrt.pbworks.com/Spring-2010-National-Church-IT-Roundtable
This is a simple and easy blog post, I have 8 Wave invites and 2 Voice invites. Leave a comment with what you want and i’ll give them out. Enjoy!
It’s been awhile since I posted but I thought of no better way to come back then with this video of God of this City. I could listen to this all day long, over and over, powerful stuff!
You come back from a Mission trip with all sorts things going through your head. How you’re going to change, what you’re going to change, things you can do, things you should’ve done, going back next year, etc. I kept waiting for this great ephipany of a blog post to write and share….I’m still waiting. It’s hard to even know where to begin but I feel I need to start writing to get the process going. First off I want to thank each of you, those that prayed, those that gave, those that followed along, it took each of you for this trip to happen and for it to be a success. There are many things about the trip I’d like to share but right now I there is something more important to share. Keith Martin, our Worship Arts pastor, is the leader of the Navajo trip. He’s been dealing with back pain for quite awhile and it got progressively worse on the trip to the point he ended up coming home early to have it taken care of. It comes to find they have found a mass in his abdomen. All that to say, please keep up with his status and pray for him, find out his latest at http://www.gowoodland.com/keith
Wasabi Gospel
Finished reading Wasabi Gospel, Shawn Wood’s second book, and it was I believe even better than the first. Shawn’s first book had me at the title alone, 200 Pomegranates and an Audience of One: Creating a Life of Meaning and Influence. I just have to say if Shawn keeps titling his books about food I’m probably going to have to read them all. Luckily there’s a sushi place just down the road I can head to real quick everytime I see the cover of Wasabi Gospel. Shawn’s writing style drew me into 200P/A1 and made me want to get Wasabi Gospel as soon as I could. It’s like sitting with that close friend that doesn’t have to sugar coat everything but you love them for saying what you don’t want to hear. Shawn takes those statements from the Gospels and challenges us to live them and not just walk around them. In the same way you’ll never truly appreciate wasabi unless you take a big bite you’ll not completely the truths Jesus longs for our life unless we live them out. The challenge of not just loving your friends and the enemies you don’t have to worry about but loving the enemies that challenge and threaten you, your family, and all that matter to you. The Wasabi Gospel is a book you’ll love even if it challenges you in ways and in things you didn’t think it would. Want some more info on the book or Shawn? Check out:
www.wasabigospel.com
www.shawnwoodwrites.com
www.twitter.com/shawnwood
www.facebook.com/shawnwood
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I just want to open by saying, “Wow” – I am amazed at the response I have gotten to be involved. All I can say is that I am honored. Because of the response I am going to break the tour up into two “bites”. You are a part of BITE ONE! Bite one will be on July 8th (which is a WEDNESDAY) with a post around 9am your time to coincide with the Amazon Book Bomb. Here is a link to the full digital copy of the book. Please do not share this link with anyone else. http://issuu.com/abingdonpress/docs/wasabi_gospel Your blog belongs to you and I am an invited guest , so you can review the book anyway you would like, but here are a few suggestions: 1. You can review the whole book – or even better pick your favorite chapter and review it. This may help too if you don’t get a chance to read the whole book before July 8th. 2. Please Mention early on in the post that July 8th is also the Book Bomb on Amazon.com and link to the page to buy the book… here is a link that you can use http://www.amazon.com/gp/entity/-/B001JSAWAU 4. You can include this 411 if you want: www.twitter.com/shawnwood 6. And finally if you are able to buy a book on July 8th to support the book bomb (which I would greatly appreciate) please give your free copy away to someone who does not know Jesus but is exploring! I will pray that the free copies make into the hands that will set someone else free! Thanks so much everyone and if you have any questions please let me know! Please send me the permalink to your post and I will make sure and link to it from my blog on July 8th! Carve pomegranates with your life, Shawn
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Hi Ashley,
I’m forwarding you my mailing address at Shawn’s request for Wasabi Gospel. You can mail to me at the address below: - Show quoted text -
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From: Shawn Wood <ShawnWood@seacoast.org> Date: Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:06 AM Subject: Wasabi Blog Tour – JULY 8th EDITION To: shawn@shawnwoodwrites.com Cc: “Miller, Ashley” <ACMiller@umpublishing.org>, “Kelley, Jessica” <jkelley@umpublishing.org> I just want to open by saying, “Wow” – I am amazed at the response I have gotten to be involved. All I can say is that I am honored. Because of the response I am going to break the tour up into two “bites”. You are a part of BITE ONE! Bite one will be on July 8th (which is a WEDNESDAY) with a post around 9am your time to coincide with the Amazon Book Bomb. Here is a link to the full digital copy of the book. Please do not share this link with anyone else. http://issuu.com/abingdonpress/docs/wasabi_gospel Your blog belongs to you and I am an invited guest , so you can review the book anyway you would like, but here are a few suggestions: 1. You can review the whole book – or even better pick your favorite chapter and review it. This may help too if you don’t get a chance to read the whole book before July 8th. 2. Please Mention early on in the post that July 8th is also the Book Bomb on Amazon.com and link to the page to buy the book… here is a link that you can use http://www.amazon.com/gp/entity/-/B001JSAWAU 4. You can include this 411 if you want: www.twitter.com/shawnwood 6. And finally if you are able to buy a book on July 8th to support the book bomb (which I would greatly appreciate) please give your free copy away to someone who does not know Jesus but is exploring! I will pray that the free copies make into the hands that will set someone else free! Thanks so much everyone and if you have any questions please let me know! Please send me the permalink to your post and I will make sure and link to it from my blog on July 8th! Carve pomegranates with your life, Shawn
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Thanks, Derek.
As soon as the books arrive in our warehouse we’ll be shipping them out! Hopefully within a couple of weeks.
Thanks so much for supporting Shawn’s work.
Let me know if you have any problems with the link or other questions.
Best,
Ashley
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It seems strange to me that in just 4 days, @sberg and I will be heading out with 14 others on a mission trip to the Navajo nation. Not really sure why it seems strange we’ve done local missions, stateside missions, and even a couple of international mission trips, but this one already has a calling to me and us. Not sure what it is or why it is but it seems to just make sense, this trip to go out west will be a trip into what will seem like a 3rd world country with more cultural and spiritual difference then i’ve had to deal with before. For a techie that normally has a Blackberry in hand, a laptop on the shoulder and never far from internet and connectivity this will be a challenge for me as well. And that’s a good thing! One of the things I struggle with is stopping and connecting and embracing the things that are most important, those relationships with God, with family, with friends. If you’ve ever talked with a person who has been on a mission trip they almost always say that it had more effect on them then it did on those that they were serving, that’s what i’m looking for, that moment, that realization, that focus. Pray for the Navajo and our group, pray that all involved will grow closer to the one true God. Thanks.
One of favorite books that I have actually read (not many of those) is Francis Chan’s Crazy Love. It’s one of those very challenging and make you think type of books that I have to go back and read every once in a while just to get my priorities right. I’ve included a video below that is the introduction video for book, you’ll want to check this out! Don’t like reading? The audiobook is available for free during the month of July from christianaudio.com. So stop and go download it and start listening and when you finish go tell all your friends!
