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How can the Christian Church reach out with the technology available?
Twenty years ago, the Internet was still considered new technology. Only a minority of people had access to the Internet. Today, most households have at least one computer, and the majority of people today use a computer to gather information. There are some of the older generation that still have not ventured onto a computer, but for the most part, most people have and can use a computer to do a basic search. My father in law, whose is 84 years old at the date of this writing, can use a computer.
With the new smart phones and tablets with cellular connections, Internet use has become as much of a needed utility as a telephone. Having said that, the way we gain information has changed compared to twenty years ago. In that era, pay telephones were rampant, and for the most part, you could usually find a telephone book to look up anything you needed, from a doctor, to a store, and even your local place of worship. Personally, I have not picked up a phone book to look up anything in quite a long time. Instead, we use search engines like Google, Bing, or online directories like Yelp, combined maybe with some other website that has the information we need. A lot of the Christian radio stations have a directory online listing local churches.
So, what does this have to do with the church? Most churches now realize that they at least need a website. A lot of the church websites out there offer little more than the address and phone number of the church, with maybe a few photos. Some of these websites are built by someone (well meaning) in the congregation. They may not have any idea of how to do anything more than just use some cheap resource online to build an automatic click and build website, without needing much in the way of technical experience. A website can offer so much more, and have the ability to reach out to the lost. We are commanded to take up the Great Commission, to win as many souls as possible. See Matthew 28:16-20 regarding the Great Commission. Your church can offer live video feeds of your services. You can offer audio podcasts of your sermons. You can have a calendar of events showing on your website. All of these tools can be used to reach the lost, while keeping your flock up to date with a valid method of communication, and keeping your home bound members fed with the message.
Besides the website, you can have software that is cloud based, to help you run your church or ministry. There are many good ones out there, and they are free in costs. Some of these can be found on open source websites. You just need someone that can recognize what the system requirements are, to install it for you, and make any code adjustments to make it work with your particular situation.
Do you want to print your own church directory, with photos of your members? Do you want a good accounting program? Do you have a church library, and want to automate the check in and out process? Do you have a nursery or children's program where you would like to print out bar codes on ID badges for check in and out? Maybe, with the string of church burglaries in some locations around the country, you'd like to install a security camera system? Do you want to expand your current phone system from one phone line to several, and have the same set up as a large corporation? Do you want the ability to automatically call out on your phone system with a prayer chain? E-mail out newsletters automatically?
All of these things can be done with fairly inexpensive equipment, and not have to purchase any software. You only need to have someone that knows how to put these things in place. I will be coming out with more articles on how to save money with technology in the church in the near future. Thank you for reading, and may God bless you.
Keith Hodges is a Christian serving God with his talents of working in technology needs for the church. Mr. Hodges is in the process of starting a faith based ministry to go to churches to institute technology in the church, while also training staff along with members of the church on maintaining the new technology. He will do this while being paid only by donations and love offerings. Keith has worked in many different industries over the years while also working in Internet Technologies. You can contact him through the contact form on his website at http://flwebtech.com/
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China and Singapore on Thursday received an eleventh-hour reprieve from U.S. sanctions intended to financially strain Iran's petroleum sector over the Middle Eastern nation's disputed atomic efforts, the New York Times reported (see GSN, June 28).
Observers considered China's exclusion from the penalties to have prevented a possible grave standoff between Beijing and Washington, which have coordinated with four other major governments in a diplomatic campaign to address Tehran's nuclear activities. The United States and its allies fear the atomic initiative is geared toward establishment of a weapons capability; Iran insists its nuclear ambitions are strictly peaceful.
The U.S. punitive measures -- signed into law late last year and due to take effect on Thursday -- could place U.S. financial networks off limits to financial institutions in countries targeted for importing petroleum from Iran. The latest U.S. exclusions increased to 20 the number of governments granted temporary immunity from the penalties after curbing their reliance on oil from the Persian Gulf regional power.
?Their cumulative actions are a clear demonstration to Iran?s government that Iran?s continued violation of its international nuclear obligations carries an enormous economic cost,? Clinton said in released comments.
When the European Union on Sunday starts the scheduled implementation of a ban on Iranian petroleum, Tehran ?will understand even more fully the urgency of the choice? it must make ?and the unity of the international community,? Clinton said (Rick Gladstone, New York Times, June 28). The EU measure could reduce the nation's petroleum income by 50 percent, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Friday quoted financial analysts as saying (Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, June 29).
Clinton called on Iran to "demonstrate its willingness to take concrete steps toward resolving the nuclear issue" when its representatives meet on Tuesday for a technical discussion with counterparts from China, France, Germany, Russia the United Kingdom and the United States. "Failure to do so will result in continuing pressure and isolation from the international community," she warned.
Next week's exchange in Istanbul, Turkey, would follow three higher-level multilateral meetings convened this year (U.S. State Department release, June 28).
A disagreement between China and Iran over oil expenses to an extent accounts for a 2012 drop in Beijing's imports of Iranian petroleum, the Times reported.
Still, Beijing appears to have authentically pursued curbs partly in reaction to the U.S. law, according to Obama administration insiders. China's imports over the first five months of 2012 were only 75 percent of the quantity from the same span of the prior year, they said (Gladstone, New York Times).
?Secretary Clinton has assured me that at this time China has met the significant reduction standard required by the law and recent precedent to qualify for an exemption from sanctions,? Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), a key backer of the sanctions law, said in remarks quoted by Bloomberg. ?The Chinese, however, will have to be mindful that the law requires a significant reduction every 180 days to continue qualifying for an exemption and that we will expect to see additional significant reductions by China and other nations.?
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), though, accused President Obama of providing Beijing with "a free pass."
?If the administration is willing to give China, a country that has aided the Iranian regime?s efforts to acquire nuclear capabilities, a free pass, who is it willing to sanction?? she asked in e-mail remarks.
Singapore received roughly 2.2 million tons of Iranian oil products over the five months of the year, but purchased no Iranian petroleum in 2011, according to Bloomberg.
"We welcome the U.S. decision,? the Singaporean Foreign Ministry stated in an e-mail. ?Since May 2012, no Iranian crude oil was imported" (Lakshmanan/Atlas, Bloomberg, June 29).
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and his German equivalent Guido Westerwelle addressed the multilateral atomic dialogue during a Friday telephone discussion, Iran's Press TV reported (Press TV, June 29).
Senior Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili on Thursday said his country is prepared to "share initiatives that can make the talks a success and move them forward," Agence France-Presse reported.
Any forward movement must be founded on "cooperation and a framework of building trust," he said in a written communication to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
"If the constructive talks are damaged, the responsibility will be with the party that is implementing illegal tools instead of logic in the negotiations," Jalili wrote (Agence France-Presse/Google News, June 28).
Iran intends to arm ships in the Strait of Hormuz with longer-range, stealth-capable missiles, the state-run Mehr News Agency quoted the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's naval chief as saying.
?We have already installed missiles with a range of more than [136 miles] on our vessels, and we are hopeful that domestically manufactured missiles with a range of more than [186 miles] will be operational soon,? Rear Adm. Ali Fadavi said in remarks published on Friday on the Revolutionary Guard's website (Mehr News Agency, June 29).
"We could target from our shores all areas in the Persian Gulf region, the Strait of Hormuz and the Sea of Oman," Reuters quoted him as saying. Officials and lawmakers in Iran have previously said their country could close the strait, which is key to transport of oil from the region, in retaliation to a military strike or an embargo on petroleum sales (Reuters, June 29).
Saudi Arabia is preparing to resume use of the Iraqi Pipeline in Saudi Arabia, an oil transfer system offering an alternative to the strategic waterway, United Press International quoted petroleum sector insiders as saying.
The United Arab Emirates is set to begin operating another line that would offer an alternate route for the country's Abu Dhabi oil supply. Still, the line is vulnerable to Iranian armaments, according to UPI (United Press International, June 28).
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MELBOURNE, Florida -- The Maxwell C. King Center for Performing Arts is pleased to announce its 25th anniversary of excellent performing arts and entertainment on the Space Coast, according to a King Center for Performing Arts press release.?
??As we embark on the next 25 years, we are planning a series of fundraisers that will celebrate the legacy of our wonderful facility and raise support for its outstanding programs,? said Executive Director, Steve Janicki.?
The signature fundraising event for the theatre is the 25th Anniversary Celebration.? This exclusive event package includes an invitation to a private ?Cocktail Kickoff Party? at the home of Phil and Jeanne Farmer, a ticket to see the legendary Boston Pops Orchestra presenting The Barbara Streisand Songbook with Keith Lockhart and Ann Hampton Callaway on March 2, 2012, a post show coffee and dessert meet-and-greet with Boston Pops director Keith Lockhart (pending approval), and a ticket to the musical Rock of Ages on Wednesday, April 10, 2012, (actual King Center?s 25th anniversary).? It also includes admission to an ?80s themed pre-show party on April 10, 2012.? Various contribution levels are available for this signature event.??
For a donation of $25, the 25th Anniversary Ticket Raffle gives everyone who purchases a ticket the opportunity to win a pair of two orchestra seating tickets to every show at the King Center in 2013, including Brevard Symphony Orchestra performances.? There are only 2,500 raffle tickets available.? They can be purchased through kingcenter.com, the King Center ticket office, staff members and board members.
The 25th Anniversary Star Memorabilia Auction will be launched in January 2013 and will run through April 10, 2013.? The online auction will consist of the various posters and miscellaneous items autographed by stars who have performed on the King Center stage.The Honorary Event Chairmen for the King Center?s 25th Anniversary fundraising celebrations are Mr. & Mrs. Phil Farmer and Mr. & Mrs. J. Stanley Payne.? The Co-Chairpersons are Darcia Jones-Francey and Myra Igo Haley.
All proceeds go to the King Center for the Performing Arts programs and Endowment.? The King Center is a direct support organization of Brevard Community College and is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.?
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In homage to Kathi Kamen Goldmark, who died in May, Sherith Israel on California Street was festooned on Monday with all things leopard - pin-on ribbons, programs, tablecloths, napkins and plates - and crowded with folks who had heeded the gathering announcement's note ("sequins, leopard print and vamp attire permitted"). Many boldfaced names were there, as a few folks reminded me the next day, when I pondered what to say about a memorial that was, like its honoree, genuine and glitzy at once.
Goldmark had worked as an author escort, editor and music producer, then as a longtime producer of "West Coast Live." All of this brought her into contact with boldfaced names, and among her many feats, she organized the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band of famous authors. Musicians and writers were at her memorial, along with family members, co-workers and acquaintances, and it looked like - such a huge gang - just about everyone she'd ever met. As it was said there, that was what Goldmark was like: If you encountered her, you were an acquaintance; if you were an acquaintance, you became a friend; if you were a friend, you became a lifelong soul sister/brother.
Kathi, who wanted to call a book she and her husband, Sam Barry, were working on about her breast cancer and his colon cancer "Tits and Ass," Kathi, who persuaded Amy Tan to don dominatrix gear and sing "These Boots Are Made for Walking," Kathi, who dispensed good food, good humor and kazoos with equal generosity, wasn't a halfway sort of person.
But if it seemed she loved everyone, the love she felt for her son, Tony Goldmark, was visibly 10 times as intense. She glowed when she spoke of him, lauded his accomplishments as a songwriter and creative person, encouraged and nurtured his every endeavor.
So when he began his remarks with the warning that he was likely to be emotional, but "I must speak from the heart," it was when I could most picture her at this solemn hullabaloo of a ritual. "What kind of house of worship," he said, his voice rising with the question, "offers no free parking?"
Somewhere, Kathi - performer, star, catalyst and a great audience, too - was laughing.
Getting around:
-- The Chronicle's L.H. was on Muni the other day when the operator came over the loudspeaker system and made an announcement. Her ears didn't perk up until a few sentences in, so let's assume that he began by saying he had left his wallet home that day.
He said he was a good person, didn't drink, didn't smoke. Then he asked, "Can somebody give me a couple of bucks for a McDonald's? Next stop ..."
-- Strange de Jim sent along a photo of a curb at 18th and Noe on which someone has stenciled, in pink and purple, Unicorn Parking.
Poet Diane di Prima, former San Francisco poet laureate, has been suffering from an array of health problems - teeth, eyes, back, knees, more - as well as financial problems. So poet Michael McClure reached out to members of the poetry community, asking for help.
One of the folks who got his note was actress and poet Amber Tamblyn, who, while blogging that di Prima's memoir had "changed me on a fundamental level," set up a donations page at GiveForward. Di Prima, 78, "was one of the only women of the Beat Generation," wrote Tamblyn, "and was instrumental in shaping the way we view gender based politics."
When she informed di Prima about her campaign, wrote Tamblyn, di Prima said, "That's all great and we need the money. ... but more importantly, how are your poems coming along these days?"
P.S.: Diane Roby, curator of "Cross Pollination: The Art of Lawrence Ferlinghetti," on all summer at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, says that Tommy Smothers came to Friday night's opening reception. It was his first-ever meeting with Ferlinghetti, and the two reminisced about the old days of the Washington Square Bar & Grill.
Roby, an old friend of Ferlinghetti's, took his kitchen clock from off the wall for the show. He'd painted on its face "Brother, observe the time and ..." a reference to the line - "Son, observe the time ..." - on the clock tower at Old St. Mary's.
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As a native Californian, I?ve come to accept that property exteriors are nearly usually constructing applying either siding or stucco. Bricks are applied sparingly, if at all, and stonework is usually confined to indoor tiles and outdoor patio stones, river rock set in gardens, and exposed aggregate patios. Additional normally than not, though, walkways, patios, and driveways are basically poured concrete.
Personally, I?ve usually been attracted to stonework of all types. No matter if it is a cobblestone driveway, a fireplace made from river rock, or a ledge stone wall, I think that stonework adds beauty and interest to a residence. Given that stonework can price upwards of twelve dollars a square foot, on the other hand, I?ve by no means been in a position to afford to remodel my household working with the stones, rocks, and tiles that so attract me.
Then I ran across an report about concrete paver molds, and discovered that there?s a brand new trend in household improvement: producing your own, custom colored, concrete stones, rocks, tiles, and bricks. I?ve tried it, and with the appropriate preparation and directions, have discovered that I can make my personal building supplies for just pennies. Within a nutshell, here?s how it works?.
Concrete Molds
1st, you?ll need to start with top quality concrete molds (even though some people call them cement molds or plaster molds). There are actually companies that make concrete stone molds, patio molds, concrete paver molds, stone veneer molds, and brick veneer molds. Depending on the type of stone or tile, the mold could cover an region ranging from about four square feet to about seven square feet. A ledge stone mold, by way of example, may generate 16 ledge stones, though a river rock mold could create 12 river rocks. Ideally, it is best to purchase numerous molds in order that you may have a rocks or stones with a number of appearances. Bear in mind, though, that you could use distinctive colors or turn stones in distinctive direction to ensure that it doesn?t look like you?re utilizing duplicate stone or rock shapes.
Preparing Concrete Molds
After you have your concrete molds and are ready to start your project, you?ll need to apply a mold release item so you may easily take out the stones, tiles, or bricks when they are finished. When some corporations recommend making use of motor oil, the run off is poor for the environment. Many of the newer mold release solutions could be sprayed into the concrete molds using a spray bottle ? an a great deal preferable strategy.
Mixing Colors
The artistry in producing your own concrete rocks, tiles, and bricks is in discovering and mixing the colors you like. Initially, you mix a base color into a concrete and sand mixture. Once you have this base color, it is possible to add added amounts and combinations of color to offer you the assortment you seek. Indeed, you could produce an infinite variety of colors just by adjusting the color densities. The very best colors are produced from synthetic iron oxides, though many people have had good results with all-natural oxides, ceramic stains, and also latex paint.
Concrete Pouring and Curing
Your concrete mixture should be comparatively stiff and not soupy. Utilizing a scoop, you pour the concrete mixture into the concrete paver molds and fill the mold towards the prime. If you just want a veneer stone or tile, you may partially fill the mold.
If you?ve ever worked with concrete, you understand that it is vital to obtain all of the air bubbles out just after a pour. This can be accomplished by bouncing the concrete stone molds up and down, or by acquiring and utilizing a vibrating table. Subsequent, cover the mold in plastic and let it rest out from the direct sunlight.
The longer you let the concrete remedy, the stronger it will be. The concrete molds and be unmolded immediately after 24 hours, but it really is ideal to wait longer. Once you release the stones, tiles, or bricks, it is best to rewrap them in plastic to preserve the moisture and let them cure for an added two weeks. Then, you simply have to apply sealant to your creations, and they?ll be prepared to install.
I?ve found that able to create a stunning stone pathway, tile entryway, or river rock fireplace is extremely rewarding. And to assume that it all started when I read an post about concrete paver molds.
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