Dennis Poulette contributes the following list of free software that is useful for youth ministry. If you’re interested in becoming a guest blogger for Life In Student Ministry, check out this page.
Photos
Picasa - (Windows only) An online photo organizer from Google that allows you to do limited edits on your photos, organize them, and easily share them with others.
GIMP - (Windows/Mac/Linux) The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a powerful, free Photoshop alternative that allows you to edit photos and save them in a variety of formats.
irfanview - (Windows only) A graphic viewer that allows you to preview many different types of image, video, and audio files.
Music and Audio
Audacity - (Windows/Mac/Linux) This music editing software is great for adding sound effects, making long songs shorter, mixing different tracks together, and any other basic audio editing you might need to do.
Switch - (Windows/Mac) I use switch to convert music ...
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Freebie Friday #74: Stock photo gallery FREE for ministriesSource:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/timschmoyer/~3/2963...Post Date: 2008-05-22 22:02:57
Shift Creative is giving away their entire stock image gallery for FREE to ministries! In case you’re not familiar with stock photography, it’s images that are free from copyright restrictions and royalty fees, meaning you can freely publish and print the images. I use stock images all the time on my blog here so I don’t accidentally infringe on anyone’s copyrighted material, but stock images are never free, which is why Shift Creative’s giveaway is so valuable. It&...
Frustrations with no signs of spiritual growth in teensSource:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/timschmoyer/~3/2955...Post Date: 2008-05-21 20:34:40
We’re all in youth ministry because we want to see teens move from being spiritually apathetic to being spiritually passionate, so when time passes and we see no signs of growth, it gets frustrating. Often we feel like we’re wasting our time, that our investment is pointless or that we should move our focus to a student that might produce more favorable results. It’s important to understand why we become frustrated because maybe then we won’t give up as easily on that ...
The three essentials of a youth pastor’s jobSource:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/timschmoyer/~3/2940...Post Date: 2008-05-19 22:51:53
If we’re not careful, a youth pastor’s job description becomes very bloated very quickly, not just with all the stated expectations, but with all the unstated ones, too. Before we know it, we’re juggling so many balls we’re doing nothing but stressing out and ignoring what it is that God actually put us in youth ministry to do in the first place. Most of us seriously need to step back, take a deep breath, and figure out what it is we’re spending all our time on that...
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