[Kid Inspiration]

Merry Christmas.

So I am at the second Christmas service on Christmas day.

There is one firm way I know my son is really my son – We couldn’t wake him this morning to open his Santa gifts!

He refused to get up and cried when we got him out of bed. What’s with that!! It all changed when he realized there were presents.

I totally scored with some Wii gear!

Merry Ho, Ho, Ho!

So I took a day today and stayed home… wasn’t sick just had to take a day to get a bite into the new scripts for our next series of BIG. It’s now dinner time and I though I might post something up online because: 1. I haven’t done that in a while, and 2. The software I am using to write the scripts.

I am using celtx, which is free media pre-production software. It has everything you need to take your story from concept to production. Celtx replaces ‘paper, pen & binder’ pre-production with a digital approach that’s more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share (I pasted that from the website in case you think I am that articulate )

If you need to write a script for anything, especially if you are going to film it then check out Celtx!

Dave out!

This will be short but possibly powerful!

Let’s say you felt that God was calling you to be trained for ministry… and you were waiting for the voice of God to audibly talk to you from the sky… here is that voice

Thus saith the Lord… “You should seriously check out Hillsong International Leadership College“.

If you want to study ministry to children, then as part of the Pastoral Ministry Stream you can ‘intern’ with Hillsong Kids!

Anyway, check it out… you and a couple thousand of your closest friends from all over the world. (Something like 50% of students are from U.S.)

YouTube is a site that creates nothing.

All the creators did (before Google bought the site) was put up a way for people to create content and share it with the world.

I mean its not like a news site where people create meaningful content at the employ of the almighty Goog… it’s just a way to put lame videos that SHOULD have been sent to the funniest home video show of your choosing!

And therein lies the crux.

Millions of people have made YouTube what it is today by creating all the content FOR Google (then they make millions from advertising, which is a whole other rant).

This culture, and the culture of our kids growing up is shifting from ‘consumers’ to ‘contributors’.

I watched Macgyver diffuse bombs using a matchbox and three hairpins growing up, I never really considered it possible to make my own episode… even if I wanted to, film was expensive and forget about editing it!

Today’s culture honours the contributors, the creators, those brave enough to put something out there and they disregard the leechers, the whiners, the critics who have never created anything.

You want to have an opinion that is valued, a voice that commands respect…

CONTRIBUTE!

Networking is not so much just about meeting other like minded people, it’s about the bringing value.

The little community of Children’s Ministry bloggers that has grown and developed in the last four years is full of people that CREATE content.

Are you serious about connecting?

Do you really want to build relationships that sharpen you?

Do you want the generation rising to listen to anything you have to say?

Then WRITE something, FILM something, RECORD something… and put it out there for every person in the known universe to read!

(btw: There are at least 900,000 blog posts every day online.)

Please, for your sake: Move from consumer to contributor!