Technology & Worship - a resource roundup (ThinkJump Journal #7 with Kim Gentes)
Friday, July 20, 2007 at 3:54PM
Kim Gentes in Internet, Technology, Worship

I recently taught a session on technology and worship and found that a lot of people are looking for good resources in that area. To help with getting some good information out there, I wanted to post a summation of a good list of resources for folks interested in this area. This is a list that is compiled by me, but includes my personal favorites as well as those of some of my staff at Worshipmusic.com. I hope it is helpful.

SOUND & MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY FORUMS

SOUND & MUSIC TRAINING

VIDEO & GRAPHIC TECH INFORMATION/TRAINING

PUBLICATIONS/READING

I especially like the writings by Quentin Schultze and would encourage you to read any of this writings and articles on technology and the church. Such as follows:

This is a good opinion blog on Worship and media- http://www.leadingwithlight.com/

VIDEO AND IMAGE CONTENT SITES

Many of you asked about image sites. I will be frank. I feel that a lot of Christian image/photo places are filled with predictable, or even cheesy images. Still there are some good collections that do have quality image and video collections. But regardless of that, every site will have its strong and weak images. And it will vary greatly on the type and artistic bent of your church.Here are some of the higher quality sites I use occasionally-

Here's another source of interesting content: http://www.nooma.com/
Nooma is the creation of Rob Bell at Mars Hills Church in Michigan. Each Nooma (there are now 17) are bite-sized 10-12 minute multimedia sermonettes. They could be used for small group discussion, on a Sunday morning, whatever.

UNIQUE TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS/RESOURCES FOR CHURCHES

What I will list here are some products that I have recommended and/or use personally. Again, I am listing the URLs of the products to my company for simplicity sake. You could use this just as a reference for the product information and look around if you want to price shop. My hope is that you will find this list helpful and some of it may pertain to your local church.

I hope this is some help to you.
In Christ
Kim Gentes

 

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