The Digital Sanctuary

Leadership Network is offering a free church conference online called THE NINES on (you guessed it) 09/09/09 at 9:09am CST.
You’ll get to hear from 47+ speakers all in one day!
Each will each spend 9 minutes giving their best leadership advice.
A tiny preview of the speakers includes:
* Mark Batterson :: National Community Church
* Dave Ferguson :: [...]

Many consider SXSW to be the best interactive media conference in the world. You learn from minds like Guy Kawasaki and the people at Facebook and Google. Unfortunately, SXSW has had little if any church oriented content in the past.
You can change that.
You can vote for SXSW Interactive to have several church oriented sessions in [...]

New Hope on iPhone from Peter Thourson on Vimeo.
This is the third part of my continuing interview  with Peter Thourson from New Hope……..

Can we move the church out of the church?

Churches are now in the midst of an exciting revolution where technology is now making it possible for churches to take their ministry global on [...]

I’m just guessing you may not know who this is.   Let me introduce you to Peter Thourson, the guy who’s just basically responsible for streaming live church services on the iPhone.   You heard me right.    Peter works at New Hope in Hawaii along side the church’s Technology and Innovations Director, Michael Sharpe.   In [...]

Those of us who use Twitter as our primary instant messaging system (and rolodex, and news channel, and social networking site, and life-streaming host, and water cooler, etc.) got a substantial dose of blackout this morning as Twitter simply….. well….. evaporated.
No Fail Whale, no worm, no ice cream (iScream) nothin’.  My primary communication vehicle was [...]

Yes, I know it’s the middle of “iPhone Church Service week” but I’ll be responding to fb messages, dm’s & gmails all week if I don’t put up the slides from the Echo Conference breakout that I got to do with Dawn Nicole Baldwin last Thursday in Dallas.
Working with Dawn is always refreshing and [...]

So here’s the deal, about a month ago, on July 4th, New Hope Christian Fellowship, a large Foursquare Church in Hawaii, launched the first iPhone church services.   DJ Chuang did a great job of covering the story at Digital (Leadership Network’s “tech for laypeople” blog).  The last time I was at New Hope I [...]