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Free Vintage Map Background

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:59:02 +0000

Even though NOT a vector … this is still a pretty cool vintage map background. Brought to you by night-fate-stock @ deviantart. Love the colors and sepia tones. This really is nice work. Could use it as a banner background or more. Here is the download link.

Free Vector “Retro Working Girl”

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:34:26 +0000

New vector freebie made available by NIXVEX at Vectezzy.com. To date only 561 downloads. Great background elements too on this little file. Done in Illustrator CS3
Here is the download link.

Source: Vecteezy
http://www.vecteezy.com/People/10308-Retro–Working-Girl–Free-Vector

40 Retro and Cool Pop Cultural Vector Resources (speckyboy.com)

Christian tshirt custom design

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:28:24 +0000

This was a fun shirt to print. We used a new product … Florescent Green discharge ink … it’s bright and the print is soft. If you haven’t read our information about discharge inks … you really should. We like it to look good and feel good.

Greg Steir: Awkard is awesome

martin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:33:08 +0000

Let’s face it … some people can flat out just make you laugh. I have read Greg’s stuff for a long time … never met him, but I do like to read his stuff. This post was just too funny not to pass along. I think we all could apply for that job: Minister of Awkward Moments. The High Fiving moment is classic.

from this article.

f there was a position in ministry called Director of Awkward Moments I would be promoted to it. Why? Because I have a tendency, in the words of my old pastor, to keep talking until I start making sense and to make appropriately funny jokes at flat-out inappropriate times. Sometimes my attempts at humor are misinterpreted as serious statements. Sometimes my serious statements are misinterpreted as attempts at humor. It’s always awkward when people don’t know whether to laugh, cry, punch you in the face or run away in terror.

One time, on a TBN-type live television broadcast, I high fived the host’s uplifted praise hand. I could see his hand go skyward out of the corner of my eye as I was telling a moving story of a changed life. My peripheral vision combined with my hands-are-for-clapping Baptist mindset, told me that this TV preacher was wanting to give me a high five in response to my story. But he was just raising his hands in praise to God. I quickly turned to him, and before I noticed his other upstretched hand of praise, I smacked the one closest to me so hard it stunned and bewildered him. The camera guys were laughing so hard that their lenses were shaking. AWKWARD!

I’ve had awkward moments as a pastor. While concluding a service I once misquoted Psalm 150 as “let everything that has breasts praise the Lord!” AWKWARD! I’ve had them as a counselor. Responding to a guy who told me that he was so spiritual that God told him he could divorce his wife I said, “God just told me something too. He said ‘You are full of crap!’ Now get out of my office before I throw you out!” AWKWARD! I’ve had them as a traveling evangelist. Once while visiting Europe a group of Scottish evangelists asked me what I thought of their sickening-sweet orange drink called Iron Brew and I responded, “If soda were gay this would be it.” Little did I know it was their national drink that they were immensely proud of. AWKWARD!

there is more. Here.

Source: Gregstier.org
http://www.gregstier.org/rants/awkward-is-awesome/

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Creating a fun cartoon style poster

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:04:01 +0000

Here is a great tutorial from spoongraphics on creating a cartoony looking character and producing a poster from it. Graphic from spoongraphics.
from this article.

Follow this step by step guide to creating a fun cartoon style poster design. We’ll combine a quick character doodle with some bold and blocky text, then bring it to life with a muted colour palette and a mix of textures to give the poster an old and retro feel.

Source: Spoongrahics
http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-create-a-fun-cartoon-style-poster-design

Recruiting youth ministry volunteers. Always

martin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:36:04 +0000

I like this approach to getting the quality and quantity youth ministry volunteers that you need. Being a salesman for many years … I know the process of making the calls that you need to make to get the sale. I might add the little thing that one veteran sales guy taught me years ago … always keep your “tickler” file up to date. For all those cold calls that say no … I would still go back 6 months later and still see if they were not interested. The tickler file worked. You can another 30% of those that first said no … into a presentation, at least. I think the same would happen with potential youth volunteers … who say no … now … but things change.

from this article @orangeleaders

There is nothing more important to your ministry than the quality and quantity of your volunteer leaders. So your priority needs to be that.

Normally when I talk about the job of getting leaders, I talk about treating it like a job interview. You can’t be desperate…and you can’t take just anybody. You have to find the right people. I mean that…and still do.

For this post however…I want you to think like a salesmen. Not that you need to sell the job…but you have to think like a salesmen thinks.

Here’s how a salesmen thinks –

check out the rest of this post.

Source: Orangeleaders

http://www.orangeleaders.com/?p=3443

Discovery: Worlds of Wow

martin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:35:06 +0000

Today this caught my eye. Mainly, because it was in Argyle, Texas … another mainly, because it had the word WOW in it … and thirdly mainly … because when I clicked to their site it had colorful playground stuff … I loved the playground when I was a kid.

From Worlds of Wow –

Our Mission:

Worlds of Wow is the innovative leader in creating destinations for kids at church. Wow provides an easy, one-stop solution for both themed environments and play attractions with our spiritually focused team.

If reaching the next generation is your passion … you should check out their stuff.

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Free Vector Film Strip

martin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:04:53 +0000

I thought this was a pretty cool vector film strip. If you layout posters for events and have to put up small pics … this can be a creative way of placing them on the page … instead of putting them in a boring box. The vector is located at 123freevectors. Here is the download link.

City Skyline Vector

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:55:33 +0000

I thought I would share this link with you as well. It’s a great vector of a city skyline. Don’t really know which one … if you know … be sure and comment and let me know and I will put it up. Here is the link.

Skyline First Poster – It’s a Teaser (screenhead.com)

Che Guevara Free Vector Graphic

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:46:03 +0000

This was a pretty popular link for us … but when we migrated this site to another server and company … for some odd reason a few files went away. So, I decided to re-create the file and the link for those that are searching (in vain) for it on this site. The file is at vectorportal.com and here is the link.