June 19th, 2008
Have You Heard of OpenResources.org?
Posted by Greg Atkinson under Audio, Church 2.0, Church Media, Church video, Communication, FREE, Greg's Favorites, Ideas, Intros and Announcements, Media ministry, Music, Preaching, Web 2.0, Worship resourcesYesterday I was contacted by John Falke of OpenResources.org, a new website for churches worldwide to download and use an entire library of creative materials - absolutely FREE. Materials include sermon audio, countdowns, promotional design graphics and opening videos from a wide variety of message series and churches.
In my book, Church 2.0, I have a whole chapter titled “Open Source” that is dedicated to writing about resources like this (and others I’ve mentioned on here before). I believe this open source model is a God-thing and am happy to tell others about it.
Church Video Idea:
This Sunday, as a Call to Worship, we’re using Amena Brown’s “He is Here” (HD) video from Bluefish.tv. The cool thing that I’m glad we’re doing is going with the “no music” version (they have one totally ready to go with background music and one with her speaking and no underscore).
While the video is playing and Amena is speaking (she’s amazing) - our band will be softly playing and building underneath - we’ll immediately go right into our first song when the video ends.
I’ve mentioned this before: the beautiful thing about Bluefish.tv is that their videos are $1.99! I’d encourage you to do like we have and download every video clip they have of Amena Brown.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
I love Amena Brown’s videos. My absolute favorite of all time is the Resurrection one.
http://www.bluefishtv.com/ProductDetails.aspx?cid=1005&id=1843
June 19th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
What a great resource! Thanks for sharing. Are you planning on posting a video of service?
June 20th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Same Falke that’s at FCC I would assume? That’s awesome, it’s great to see that community explode like it is.
September 25th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Hey Greg, thanks for the mention about the Amena clip. For everyone else on the site, I’m am part of the bluefishtv team and we have talked a lot about our passion as a non-profit ministry to offer resources at an affordable price. Its good to know the $1.99 videos have been a support to churches like Bent Tree. As a way of saying thanks, I also wanted to give you a code for you and any friends on the site to each get a free download. Just enter the code BF199 when you checkout on the BluefishTV.com website. There’s 4 New Amena Brown clips up so there should be a few to choose from.
Justin