Hot Ministry Tip

There probably is a small window of opportunity for this fantastic tip!

If you remember a few years ago just before plasma and LCD TV’s became affordable the technology of the moment was all about rear projection TV’s. These beasts went for anything up to $10,000 and were the cutting edge of technology.

Fast forward to 2010, and these monstrosities have disappeared from electronic stores… gone like the old cathode ray TV’s — no one wants to buy them and now with flat screens taking over no one wants to own them!

A while ago I received an email from the online auction site graysonline.com.au (which all Australian kids pastors should be on — lots of bargains!). The RSL in Redfern was closing down and selling off everything — including a 50 inch rear discount diflucan online projection TV which I procured for the princely sum of about $250! We have gone on at Hillsong Kids to buy one of these for our Brisbane and South West campus kids programs.

There are at least a couple dozen on ebay at any one time (a quick search of the US brings up 335 results — and plenty more on craigslist etc. I’m sure!). In some cases we have stopped using projectors all together and run all our media and words for praise and worship through these TV’s.

I have had a mixed relationship with projectors over the years (bulbs blowing and costing a bundle to replace — sometimes more than the cost of the projector in the first place).

This is not the solution for every room, but for example in our City campus with a smallish room for our Voltage (pre-teen) program we have banished the projector altogether. Instead plugged a DVD player and Computer into it (with a VGA to Composite convertor — cheap on ebay)

Here is what our boy BJ picked up today cheap as chips!

So strike while the iron is hot and pick up one of these monsters for your ministry!