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Recently we added two voice-over-internet-protocal (VOIP) phone lines to our existing 4 incoming land lines at Generation Church. One of the lines is for our Generation Buiness Network and the other, and additional line for cheap, cost effective local, national and international calls.
The company I chose was a local Gold Coast company called VtalkVoIP.
Armed with [...]

Today I have been basking in the glory of Flock, definately the most awesome browser ever created. Based on Firefox, Flock is a Web 2.0 browser that allows you to connect to your blog and add entries, easily upload pics to photobucket of Flickr, and most importantly, manage your social bookmarks in del.icio.us.
The bloggers browser.

It [...]

Around July last year, our church made an investment that’s had a huge impact on how staff communicate. We bought a Dell Poweredge SC420 server running Microsoft Small Business Server 2003.
Prior to owning our own server, we relied on retreiving mail from our web server running Linux. We used POP3 or squirrelmail to check our [...]

A searchable Bible, similar to eBible.com
A Blogging system that allows people to share revelation on scripture
A Commenting system that allows other people to comment on that revelation
All diggable, so that people could vote on the coolness of each others revelation (this is actually a frightening thought)
RRS: Revelation Ranking System

Anyway, enough for now…

I can’t remember a time when more ideas have come to me than over the last two days. After launching techpastor.com I’ve been doing alot of research into Web 2.0. It’s a huge topic, ranging from pure tech to philosophical problems.
It’s doing my head in.
I feel like that deranged skitzo when I’m like this. When [...]

Take a look at the About section, gives a general overview of techpastor.com and how it can help you take your area of responsibility to the next level.
I also want to major on helping you take your leadership to the next level. Your personal capacity can limit the growth of your department. I think that [...]

This is an amazing read about the relationship between God and Technology:

Worshipping God with technology

Here is a list of some of the areas that techpastor.com will cover:

Sound, Lighting and Vision

Sound reinforcement
Lighting
Staging
Visual reinforcement - display and presentation systems
Song lyrics

Words projection and presentation software

Setting up multiple screens and displays with a dual head video card
Genlock overlay for overlaying words on video or backgrounds

Multimedia

Video editing
Image manipulation and editing
Print design
Large scale Presentation systems
Video [...]

Welcome to TechPastor.com
My name is Matt Sweet, and I’m the Tech Pastor at Generation Church on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.
TechPastor.com is for tech pastors and tech people who are in fulltime ministry who have a desire to use technology to reach people for the cause of Christ. Whether you are called to the [...]