Battle fo the Burgers // BIG EVENT

Through the years I have produced some really bad promotional pieces. Pormotional pieces for camps, weekend retreats, big events, or just simple information handouts detailing our weekly ministry. Years ago in a creative meeting, I decided that our print pieces needed to be done with excellence. I wanted them to represent the ministry and be somthing that our students would be proud to hand out to their friends.
Remember the key to a good print piece is quality and info! At 24.7 our quality comes from our worship pastor, Ron Gehrke. Ron, is one of the most talented graphic designers I have ever worked with. In our creative meetings every Thursday morning, we layout waht is needed for design and Ron works his magic.

Our info comes from a mixture of staff, interns and students. We mainly create pieces in our creative meeting, but there are times info is added in an intern meeting or simply sitting down with a student and listening to what he/she thinks would convey our message.
Note: We try to make our promo pieces different sizes but we always make them small enough to put in their pocket unless it is a mailer.


I have added a sample of a print piece we did this fall from one of our big events (battle of the burgers) and links to a few print companies we use.

http://www.imagemedia.com/

http://www.overnightprints.com/

Video Game: Call of Duty: World at War

Background/summary:
This World War II first person shooter game released in November of 2008. The game is a highly anticipated sequel in the famed Call of Duty series that has already made four very successful games, including the most recent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which made monumental strides in weaponry, combat technology, and Internet multiplayer gaming. The rating on World at War by the ESRB is “Mature,” due to graphic shooting violence. Nevertheless, this game proves to be a big hit amongst players of all ages, as evidenced by the near-constant 100,000+ gamers playing the Xbox Live online multiplayer at any given time.

Discover: What is the message/worldview?
• The main storyline of this game involves two theaters of World War II, fighting as an American marine in the Pacific theater (against the Japanese) and as a Russian in the European theater (against the Germans).

• As you progress through the game, there are a series of cut-scenes that enact various storyline pieces and introduce the player to the tasks he/she must complete. The cut scenes show everything from brutal executions to triumphal rescues, depending on location in the storyline.

• Because of the war setting, bad language and bloody violence are prevalent throughout the game. Although this may seem a bit excessive, it does grasp some of the reality experienced by real soldiers, so is at least within context.

• The real reason gamer’s love the COD series is the online multiplayer,particularly through Xbox Live on the Xbox360 system. This allows players an unlimited supply of real human competition in various game modes including capture the flag, “war,” search and destroy, etc. These various game modes, coupled with an addictive “challenge” system that allows gamers to unlock new weapons and game features, keep even seasoned veterans coming back for more.

• While most games pride themselves on a 30-hour total game play, World at War has individuals logging exponentially more hours due to the constant desire to “rank up” through the online multiplayer challenges.

• The overall worldview of the game is one of war and carnage, but with an underlying theme that perseverance through trials ultimately can prevail.

Prism

The term “Prism” is symbolic of what happens when a single ray of light hits a glass prism and reflects in multiple beautiful individual color bands.

Last night was the annual Prism Concert at Sebastian River High School. The enjoyed the last 2 years and was really looking forward to the evening. It has been great way to support our students and kick-off our holiday season.

This year was different...we almost were not able to go. We originally bought tickets for Friday night and then realized that we had double scheduled our calendar with a Disney Trip. Then we sold our tickets thinking that everything would sold out and we would not be able to go. But not so! We got tickets for opening nights sold out show.

I am so glad we did. This year was no exception! AWESOME! Two full hours of sheer entertainment. We were even able to talk Colin and believe it or not for 2 full hours he sit in his seat and he loved it. Drums, Horns, Dance...all orchestrated together to near perfection.

Thank you Elisa, Lisa, Katie, Frankie, Ashley, Jessica, Whit and the entire cast and staff for a great evening.

Pastor Joe

Inside My Weekend

Friday
11:15 am Thursday Night Left for Shopping
Shopped till 6:30 am
Slept in till 9:30
Rested around the house
Played Lego's
4:00 Shopped some more
Home 8:30
Sleep

Saturday
Slept in
Omelets for breakfast
Played Lego's
Decorated the outside of the House 3 hrs
Watched Football Tennessee vs. Kentucky
Sleep

Sunday
Designed PPT for service 6:00 am
Church James 5:7-12
Brief Meeting
Rest
Brought in the Christmas Decorations 13 Boxes
Put our Tree up
Watched Football
In Second Place Fantasy Football League // Bye this week
Family Devotion
Rest

Pastor Joe

Happy Thanksgiving Friends

Psalm 100

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the lands! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into God's presence with singing! Know that the Lord is God! It is he that made us, and we are his;we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

We have so many things to be thankful for! Family, friends, health, video games...but most of all that there is a God that is with us through the highs and lows of life. He understands. He Cares. He Desires a relationship with us. God values us above the worlds greatest landmark...WOW!

Summer, Colin and I want to wish you and your family HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

Pastor Joe

Inside My Weekend

Friday
No Workout // Feeling Sick
1/2 day at the office
Picked Colin up and went to lunch
Rested at the House
Went to Outback for Dinner
Went to Building 429 Concert with family and middle school students
home 2:00 am

Saturday
Slept in // 9:30
Still not feeling well
Mowed the Yard (hopefully the last time this year)
Went to a Wedding reception for Kaitlin Irons at 2:00
Meant High School students at Operation Hope to had out food (over 700 served)
Watched the Tennessee vs. Vandy game. A WIN for the vols :)
rest

Sunday
Up early 6:00 am
Prepped PPT for church service
Left for Church 8:30
Pre-Marriage session with family
Pastor Message James 5:1-6
Lunch at home
Rest
Set-up new desk in Summer's room
Watched football
In Bed Early

Pastor Joe

Building 429 Concert

Last night's concert with After Edmund, Addison Road and Building 429 was off the charts. We took a group of middle school students to outback for dinner (my favorite restaurant) then headed over to Vero High for the concert at 10pm. It was really cold outside...but inside the temperature was rising.

The show did not end until 12:30! One of the ministries they were supporting was world vision an organization that for $30 a month allows you to sponsor a child in a third world country. I had the opportunity to take my son "Colin" with me and when challenged to sponsor a child he raised his had. I saw his child like faith and told my wife we need to follow his lead "even though he is only 5". He heard the story of the hurt and pain and he said he wanted to help. So, we have a little girl from Mexico that we are now sponsoring.

The comment below is from Jason the lead vocals on how they named the band 429.

Jason: It's actually based on Ephesians 4:29 which says "Let nothing unwholesome come out of your mouth, except that which is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." And that seemed like a pretty good place to take a stand. We play quite a few secular venues, and we're Christian guys and we want to wear our faith on our sleeve, but we don't want to slap somebody on the head with our Bible. So this seemed like the perfect way to do that, because the more people ask us what our name means, the more we have a chance to talk about what we believe.

I had seen Building 429 in concert in several different venues in years past...but last night placed them in my top 10 all time shows. The lights, music, and show was awesome.

On another note there was these two guys to the left of us and two rows down that decided that they were going to put on their own show for the audience. These two guys had no clue that they were even at a Christian concert...CLUELESS. These young man started dancing "Micheal Jackson" style and did not stop until the show ended. It made for a good laugh.

Thank you middle school for an awesome evening!

Pastor Joe