The World According To Chris Brewer

StrikeTheGround.com, the official website for the North Carolina COGOP Youth Minstries, now offers STG.TV, a series of videos aimed to help youth pastors and youth leaders in their youth ministry. It’s all professionally edited by Kirk Rising, the N.C. state youth ministry director. I highly recommend you check it out…just click here.

I met Kirk at the 2004 Virginia COGOP Youth, Children’s and Worship Leaders Conference at Camp Lowman. I had the privilege of sitting in on a workshop he conducted on how to use media to reach youth in a relational and relevant way. Afterward, we discussed video editing techniques and I explained to him that as a broadcaster in the Air Force, I would love nothing more than to take the expertise I have gained and put it to good use in a church that needs it. Apparently he’s had the vision a lot longer than I have, and that is wonderful…it’s great to see someone in such a prominent leadership position in the church, who has caught a vision of how big media ministry can impact our churches and reach people for the Lord.

Media ministry — whether it be as advanced as posting weekly sermon videos to the Internet or as simple as offering audio snippets of important points in the sermon — is easily becoming the single biggest tool our churches can use to reach audiences for Christ. Kirk uses the talent God has given him…and his abilities in media ministry are having a far-reaching effect on the youth program at the North Carolina COGOP. He is truly setting the example for other media ministers.

So check out STG.TV, and also on a side note, pray for In The Son 4, the NCCOGOP youth rally to be held May 5-6 in Wilmington, NC. They’re shooting for an attendance of 500 and I plan to be one since I’ll be arriving home from Iraq and it falls within my two-week leave window.

God bless!!!

[tags]ministry, church, media[/tags]