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This two-day retreat promises creativity, design, play, networking, worship… It’s a close-to-home, on-the-cheap ($50) version of a national design conference. Expect to learn something and have fun doing it.

WHO: Graphic Designers, Digital Artists, Marketers, Photographers, Event Planners, people who love PhotoShop, people with “crazy ideas”… any creative professional (or novice) involved in church or ministry design.

WHEN: 9 a.m., Friday, Sept. 25 through 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 26, at Camp Geneva in Holland, MI

DETAILS: www.the3dretreat.com

REGISTER NOW

So much good stuff. I can’t pick just one. Check it out for yourself…

http://www.churchcrunch.com/

Here’s how flickr staff is relieving some stress:

Faceball, a documentary from Face Ball on Vimeo.

Do you have something you do for creative distraction?

Michael Anderson came up with this unique way of showing his graphic skills and his resumé all at once. I especially like how he compares his coffee intake with productivity in other areas!

Clever visual resumé by Michael Anderson

Excerpt from You Can’t Advertise Problems Away: Ad Campaigns of the Mainline Denominations found on Churchmarketingsucks.com:

This quote hurts: “Study after study has shown that religions that grow are the ones that are hard-core in some way. They have something that differs sharply from the culture in which they operate,” says Boston University’s [Stephen] Prothero. “That’s the problem with mainline Protestantism: It’s not different enough from mainstream America.”

The long awaited and worked upon Resurrection Life Church website is  here! It was a long road but is up and running. Comments welcome. It’s up! Check it out. I’d love to hear your thoughts. http://www.reslife.org/

Twitter goes to church and many people are starting to use it to get the Word out to people about what’s happening in their churches as well as their thoughts, sermon excerpts.  One church even shows the live Twitter feed during services!

Check out how Imagine Fellowship is using Twitter here.

In Diane Mapes article, “Holy Twitter!…” on MSNBC, she describes how Twitter has moved from the streets and offices into the pews of congregations.

What a great way to involve people and get news out about what you’re doing in every day living that is connecting with Christ!

Are you using Twitter? Follow me: @mshead and let me know how you’re using Twitter personally, for business or for your church.

Here’s an overview of Twitter.

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by Michael Shead

Telling the stories of what God has done in people is very important. Check out how Granger Community Church did it on cardboard.

Cardboard Testimonies from Granger Community on Vimeo.

I’ve tried several ways of rounding corners in Photoshop and sometimes it just seems like it doesn’t look quite right…until now.  The Graphic Designer I work with found this link with great instructions to help make this task an easy one

http://matthom.com/archive/2004/09/10/fast-rounded-corners-in-photoshop

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by Michael Shead