General Archive

iPhone for Business Challenge - Can the iPhone be used to completely run a mobile or web based business?


Right now there is alot of intellectual and creative capital being invested into the iPhone as a new platform for delivering content and services. As of this moment, a million ideas are slowly brewing in the minds of futurists, technologists and developers all around the world.
Apple’s App Store is going to change everything…
With the [...]

Voip - added a Digium TDM400


We just added a Digium TDM400P with three FXO ports into our voice server at our Crown Court location at Generation Church.
This has a number of ramifications:

Not paying for call forwards to our VOIP provider
Our three copper lines hook straight into our virtual voice infrastructure - all lines are available at both locations
Phones still work [...]

New Years resolution 2007


“Do more, say less”
- Matthew Sweet, Jan 2007

RSS feed now in Feedburner


I just updated my feeds to now go through feedburner.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techpastorcom
If you are already subscribed, I sure would appreciate it if you update your feed reader with the new link!
Feedburner is awesome, allows you to manage your feed more effectively and most importantly Stats!

Scoping your own Church Management Software - Part I


Generation Church has been going for almost two years, and until now we have relied heavily on third party software to manage our pastoral care database.
At the current moment we are using the excellent Excellerate church management software from Micro System Design. Originally developed by Pete Sciacchetano for Bethany World Prayer Center, Excellerate has been [...]

Generation Church - the vison and mission of the house!!!


 

Pastor Vanessa on Sunday morning reiterated the sound that our house has been making for many months!
She clearly verbalised our vision and mission statements so clearly that I was overcome with dumbness! Of course! Duh…
Vision: A house of healing, a house of hope, a house that brings heaven to earth.
Mission: Serving locally, impacting globally.
I was [...]

Bible 2.0


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…

About section added


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 [...]

Area’s covered


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 [...]

TechPastor.com launched


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 [...]