I posted a while back about an awesome project that we are a part of. It’s called The Quench Project. This project is in collaboration with several other media producers like us. We all came together and decided to create a “Best Of” DVD for one fantastic cause: Water. 1.1 Billion don’t have access to clean water. That’s a real problem. Read the previous post here.
The official launch of the product is still a few weeks away, but you can buy it now in the WorshipHouse Media store. Click here to buy yours now! Get your copy today and start helping water wells get drilled tomorrow! You cannot buy this anywhere else, so tell everyone you know to go check it out. The media on the DVD is some of the best, most popular media ever created in this industry. And 100% of every dime made with this video goes to Living Water International. All of it. Hence 100%. So the producers are giving their media away so all the money goes where it needs to.
If that ain’t putting our money where our mouth is, then I don’t know what is.
Hey all. You’ll notice the site at www.eleven72.com is all new. We finally have the new site up and running. It’s awesome. We’re really pleased with it. But up until today I wasn’t able to blog because we were having a lot of trouble integrating the blog into the new site and somewhere in the process of moving it, I lost the ability to update it. But that’s all fixed now. For the time being, it’s embedded here in this eleven72 page, which means you have to scroll in this window within a window, which isn’t the best set up, but at least it’s back up.Thanks to all of you who helped make Christmas and New Years great seasons for eleven72. Our Christmas video, Breath of Heaven was a top 5 video at all the various distributors sites and our New Years video is currently the number one video on Sermon Spice and Worship House. We feel so blessed. Thank God and thank you :).
We’re looking forward to an amazing, exciting, surprising, fabulous 2008.
That’s Breath of Heaven (or Breath of the sky) in German. We had some guys in Germany contact us. They want to use Breath of Heaven at their church for Christmas so they translated the text for us into German and we made a German language version. Pretty cool stuff. So, Breath of Heaven is one of the best selling Christmas videos in the world (currently number 4 of Sermon Spice and number 3 on Worship House) and now it’s being translated into other languages. God is good. If you know anyone who could use a German language version of Breath of Heaven, let us know :)!
December is flying by so quickly… A lot of good things are happening for eleven72. Our Breath of Heaven video is currently the number 2 video on Worship House and the number 3 video on Sermon Spice, which is awesome. Our Peace on Earth, Just Ask, All Too Familiar and Christmas Presence videos are also selling well.
With Christmas almost here, I also wanted to point you to some of our New Years content that we’re excited about. We’ve got a lot of fun videos for New Years. Change is Possible is popular year round but great for New Years. Resolve is our most popular New Years video to date. And we have really high hopes for our latest New Years video, This Year. All of the videos can be viewed and downloaded on our site (click here). Check out This Year on YouTube and please feel free to leave comments, rate it, favorite it, love it:
Here’s something we’re really excited about here. Worship House is spinning off a magazine called Collide. Billed as the place “where media and the church converge,” it’s the first magazine that I know of that’s geared specifically toward using media in the Church. The whole project is being headed up by Scott McClellen, who used to do advertising and what not for Worship House. He’s a really sharp, creative guy and so I have high hopes for the magazine. No pressure Scott :). Anyway, we’re getting a subscription and I’m adding the Collide Blog to our blogroll. I encourage you to check out their website. You can find it here.
Oh, yeah, and if you subscribe now, you’ll be entered to win an iPhone. So do it.
I haven’t blogged this week because I’ve been wrapped in thought about how to best sum up our amazing experience at the National Worship Leader Conference last week. Finally, with a lot of help from my trusty friend Lee, I figured the best way to sum it up was with a video. Remember, no one made you watch it :).
Beginning and Developing Your Church’s Media Ministry - Pt. 1
Greg Atkinson of Church Video Ideas is writing a 3 part series of articles for a great blog called Monday Morning Insight. The series is entitled “Beginning and Developing Your Church’s Media Ministry” and Pt. 1 is up today. I just read it and I think it will be a great resource for those of you out there who are just wading into starting this thing called Media Ministry at your church. Greg has tons of experience with Media Ministry, he’s on staff leading a Media Ministry at a church in Dallas, he used to be on staff with Worship House Media, and before that he was a Worship Leader. Not to mention he is in demand and travels the country speaking and teaching about Media Ministry at a lot of the big ministry conferences. This first article has a lot of good, practical advice about making sure to lay a firm foundation with regards to starting your Media Ministry. Seeking the Lord. Setting it up right. And always remembering that it is a ministry and that it needs to have Christ as its center. But enough from me. Click here and read it yourself.
