Graphic for our Christmas series at The Fields Church. Week 1: Spiritual Chaos Week 2: Calendar Chaos Week 3: Candlelight Service “Peace is Here” Borrowed idea from The Ridge Community Church

I only religiously watch a couple tv shows. The Office, Late Night and 24. But nothing compares to the tv crack called 24. Jack is Back. What tv show can you not live without?

Sunday night we kicked off our new series for Christmas titled Tis The Season. All during the week, I was going decorate the room with this really cool winter scene. That way when the students walked in on Sunday night, they would be able to experience a “winter wonderland.” Then I had the thought (not a new one at all). [...]

Instead of posting photos with twitter sending traffic to twitpic, or whatever twitter photo service you use, begin to drive that traffic to your site. Tweetpress is a plugin for WordPress which integrates with Tweetie iPhone App. Everytime you post a photo with Tweetie, the photo posts to a page on your site that you specify. Bringing traffic to your [...]

This weekend at The Fields Church, Allison Damery will performing and leading worship. You’ve got two chances to check her out in Mattoon Saturday 7:07pm at Common Grounds Sunday 9:30am at DeWitt Avenue Check out Allison’s music here. http://www.purevolume.com/allisondamery

Shawn Wood, experience pastor at Seacoast, is spearheading a collaborative planning process for worship gatherings for the upcoming Christmas season. Individuals all over the internet are sharing their ideas by hashtagging (what is a hashtag?) their tweets with #planningchristmas. All the tweets are then collected at Twubs for everyone to see. Today, Shawn did a webcast with a couple individuals from [...]

I’ve turned 30. (well last year) Sometimes I don’t get the youth culture. One of those I don’t get is Fred Figglehorn. Fred Figglehorn is a fictional character who is the primary subject YouTube videos that are centered around a fictional 6-year-old, who has a dysfunctional home life and “anger management issues”. You mention the name Fred around students, and [...]

Get your camera and get out there. Help others. Be hope. More about Help Portrait {watch video here} I’m not a photographer, but I’m willing to edit. Anyone in the Mattoon-Charleston area, want to get together and do this together?

After we complete a series at The Pipeline, we always try and do an off night. Not that we take a night off, and do nothing, but we strategically do something different. Out of the norm. To shake things up. One of those ways is by doing a $5 Mystery Night. We tell the students to bring $5 and we [...]