Diagrams and charts can be a very useful method of communicating complex ideas – a couple of examples below.
This diagram from Bethlehem Baptist Church:
This diagram from Soma Church:
Does your church use diagrams to explain how it works, or what its priorities are?
I really enjoyed this video:
THE GREATEST ART from Hillsong Church on Vimeo.
“The eXchange Film and Arts Festival was launched in 2009 with the goal of reaching out to the creative community. It started out being an exhibition at our Hills, City and South West Campuses and debuted at the Sydney Entertainment Centre 2010, which is where it will be held again this year.
Our central aim is to engage creative and artistic individuals in the church and in the wider community to express their gifts and talents. Also to motivate, encourage and inspire photographers, filmmakers and artists to create expressions of Resurrection, Sacrifice, Redemption, Forgiveness, Hope, Faith and Love.
Submissions open September 30th 2010 and close March 25th 2011. The winner of the competition will be announced on the day of the event April 24th 2011 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.”
Learn more at their website.
Yesterday, one of the printers my church uses made a big mistake.
You can read about it here.
Earlier this afternoon I spoke with the printer (who will remain unnamed) – he apologised, explained, and guaranteed it wouldn’t happen again.
Several people have asked about compensation. The printer didn’t offer a refund/future, discount, and I didn’t request it. To be honest, I’m not sure how to show grace in this situation.
Does a follower of Jesus just accept the apology? Or would it not be unreasonable to pursue some form of compensation?
A great example of the gospel intersecting with the business world – I’m just not sure how to respond.
What would you do? What would Jesus do?!
So we designed and printed some postcards to promote our upcoming kid’s sports morning.
Here’s how they look:
As they were being handed out to a child to invite his friends, he responded “that’s a bit rude”.
Why?
On the reverse of the postcard was printed the following:
Could the printer have made a bigger mistake?!
This artwork doesn’t appear on the back of all of the postcards, and thankfully, we’d only just started to distribute the postcards and have been able to pluck out the cards with this artwork on the back.
I would never have though to check each postcard for this kind of mistake – now I will.
It’s poor form, and I’m still trying to get in touch with the printer to let them know.
This reminds me of the ‘7 worst online ad placements of all time‘.
