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Today we premiered the biggest project I have made in my life. It is called the TrueNorth Vision Video, and it was a beast. I started filming in March and have been working on it on and off since then. It was a really fun project and I was honored to tell the stories of some of our students. I know its longer than normal, but I think it turned out really good so I hope you enjoy it. We got the idea from Hillsong Church’s vision video, so if you have ever seen that you may see some of the tributes (or blatant rip-offs) of their creative ideas.

If you have ever wondered what video editing looks like, I decided to include this picture so you can see how many edits and layers there are. The top section is video and the bottom is audio. There are actually a few more layers, both higher and lower, but they couldn’t fit. Anyway, I thought some people may be interested in seeing what video editing looks like:

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This video is being made as part of a series called “The Empower Series” and contains several of the fundamentals we have used at Grace to grow our student ministry. If you would like to attend the Empower Conference, click here to learn more or click here to sign up!

LUG begins on August 25! LUG is our Middle School Program where we have crazy fun, Bible teaching, worship, and most importantly, discipleship that is led by High Schoolers. Russell Schultz, our Middle School Director, explains the secret to our success:

If you want to learn more about LUG, check out the following video or visit www.lugweb.com

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This past Sunday Brian Burchik and I made the High School announcement video, and it was pretty extreme. I am pretty sure we had more fun making it then any one who watched it, but you can decide for yourself.

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Day 5 of video week!
Every week our youth group does something we call Infusion. We go to some local apartments and share the love of Jesus. This past Wednesday we gave away about 200 book bags full of school supplies that had been donated by the church family at Grace Fellowship. Most of the bookbags were also graciously donated by Boosterthon. It was really fun giving the kids their supplies for the year and they really had a great time. Here is a 2 minute video of it all:

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Well it is day 4 of video week and I do not actually have my own video. My wife Morgan showed me this video the other day and it is incredible. It is funny and really well done, but also an incredible perspective on what drives people. If you are a leader on any level, you should watch this video and it will really help you out.

What do you guys think? Does vision drive us?

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This is the second “resource video” I have made for the Empower Conference. In it, Drew McClure talks about the foundation for Sunday mornings at Grace. Every week, our students open their Bibles and follow along with the teacher. We even have Bible carts that are full of Bibles for students who have forgotten their own Bibles or do not actually have one.

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On August 28, we will be hosting a ministry training conference at Grace for student leaders, volunteers, and pastors from other churches called Empower. I have been working on a collection of videos that we will have available to them and will hopefully be helpful as well. Here is the first one, done very well by Erin Burchik as she speaks on the importance of students doing missions.

I will continue posting these over the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned!

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Hey everyone, we are releasing our newest sketch comedy video and this is our best yet. If you enjoy it, please share it with everyone you know! It’s pretty funny (I think) and a good commentary on how serious some people can take facebook. Hope you enjoy…

Special thanks to everyone involved in this project!

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I have been working on a collection of testimony videos that will go on Grace’s new Website when it is finished. We will be adding more as time goes on, but here are 3 out of the 6 that will be going on.

The first is from Paige Knudsen, who has an incredible story and perspective after losing her husband to cancer while she had 3 daughters under the age of 5. You should share this one with people you know because Paige does such a great job.

Here is one from Debbie Forbes, a woman who has been battling Ovarian Cancer. She talks about how she she has been cared for and now wants to care for others who have Cancer.

This next one is from Rusty Maddox and his story takes a little bit longer, but I am posting it here because it is a good example of God can use some really bad stuff in our life for our good.

Hope you enjoy them, I hope they give you some hope, and I hope you have a great day!

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I have been working at Grace for a few months now and they decided to let me help make their weekly announcement videos called “The Five Before.” It’s a pretty fun thing because I get to work with some very funny people who know what their doing in videos. Anyway, here are the last two videos we have made and I think they are both a strong start and pretty funny.

In the most recent, Tyler Stanton has an “exclusive” interview with Aaron Keyes where we took old footage of Aaron and had Tyler ask him random questions that fit what Aaron said to some pretty humorous results.

Two weeks ago, Tyler was sick and we needed to make an announcement about summer camps for students so we brought in a high schooler named Jeanette to help Tim make the announcements and I thought it turned out really funny.

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