Media Resources

http://www.midnightoilproductions.net/ - Midnight Oil Productions. Telling the Story in a New Light, through professional-quality worship resources and media training. Midnight Oil is Len Wilson and Jason Moore, authors of Digital Storytellers, The Wired Church, former media ministers at Ginghamsburg Church, and co-founders of Lumicon Digital Productions. Midnight Oil Productions offers high quality worship graphics and videos at a price churches can afford, as well as one-day workshops on the use of media in worship. We’ll see samples of their products today.

 

http://www.highwayvideo.com   - Highway Video. Good video started library. Lots of documentaries, Music videos for discussion starters plus some good starting elements for video editing. Check out their Vibe Videos, a visual compliment to powerful, humble worship. Vibe Videos are formed around fundamental themes such as love, forgiveness, etc and are created with images, text, music, and scripture to create synergy within any worship experience. Great to use as background worship videos.

 

http://www.avisualplanet.com – A Visual Planet.com. It's a subscription site. Very reasonable and great content. Beautiful images that you can quickly and easily get them whenever you need them. They also add hundreds of new images every month. We’ll see samples of their products today.

 

http://www.interlinc-online.com  – Interlinc. Used by youth leaders for several years now. A great source for Christian music videos.

 

http://www.churchmedia.net/home/  - Church Media.net  Has over 1000 subscribers and a very active online forum discussion board, as well as equipment and media for sale.

 

http://www.royaltyfreestuff.com/index.html  - Worshipscapes. The Motion version includes full motion scenery to use behind your worship songs, pre-service or other special video projects.

 

http://www.screenvue.com/  - ScreenVue. They provide Direct on subject clips from movies that are covered by CVLI licensing. 200 movie clips on 4 to 5 DVD's.....they are attempting to expand in the near future to more mainstream videos.

 

http://www.grouppublishing.com/ - Provides movie indexes, clips and discussion starters as part of their company.

 

Graphics Information

 

http://www.worshipgraphics.com/   - Worship graphics.com. This guy will design custom graphics for you. He has a CD-ROM packed with lots of high-quality images for a fair price.

 

http://www.churchvideoassociation.com/ - Church Video Association.

 

http://www.avisualplanet.com – A Visual Planet.com. It's a subscription site but very reasonable and great content. All images are original by avisualplanet.com

artists, or are public domain so there are no copyright concerns.

 

http://www.lumicon.org/main/home.htm   - Lumicon. Thematic planning already done for you. Includes graphics, clips, music…everything you might need to make an excellent multimedia presentation. 

 

http://www.midnightoilproductions.net/ - Midnight Oil Productions. Telling the Story in a New Light, through professional-quality worship resources and media training. Midnight Oil is Len Wilson and Jason Moore, authors of Digital Storytellers, The Wired Church, former media ministers at Ginghamsburg Church, and co-founders of Lumicon Digital Productions. Midnight Oil Productions offers high quality worship graphics and videos at a price churches can afford, as well as one-day workshops on the use of media in worship.

 

http://www.spin360.com/home.html - Spin 360. A great company that provides tracks as well as PowerPoint slides for worship.

 

http://www.freefoto.com  - FreeFoto.com. It's a place in England.  Graphics are free to churches and non-profits. Thousands of good graphics.

 

http://www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/powerpoint.cgi   - Heartlight.org. Has photos from all over the world posted by professional and amateur photographers.  You have to post a message to the owner of the photo for permission to use.

 

http://www.ebibleteacher.com/imagehtml/backgrnd2.html  -  eBibleteacher.com. Has some free graphics and links to pay sites.  Very good quality and a nice resource

for graphics on the web.

 

http://www.churchmedia.net/home/  - Church Media.net Has over 1000 subscribers and a very active online forum discussion board, as well as equipment and media for sale.

 

http://www.fci.crossnet.se/ - Free Christian Images.

 

http://graphics.crossdaily.com/ - Crossdaily.com. Christian Graphics

 

http://www.christart.com/ - Christian Art. Free Christian Graphics

 

http://www.jimos.com/ - Jimo’s Free Christian Graphics. Free Christian Graphics but be sure to follow his instructions for use!

 

http://www.salisbury-church.org/html/worshipimages.shtml - Salisbury Church. Images free to use in your church.

 

http://www.visualworship.com/visualissues.htm  - Visual Worship.com. Good PowerPoint slides to use for backgrounds. Great pictures.

 

http://www.altavista.com/image/default?qbmode – Altavista. Free image search for backgrounds, or pictures to use to create your own

 

http://www.gifs.net/animate/webl1.htm  - Animated GIF Finder. A ton of free animated .gifs that work with the latest versions of Power Point

 

http://www.cooltoolawards.com/software/multimedia/xara3d.htm -  Xara 3D. Free online

resource where you can create quality 3d headings for Power Point

 

Movie Indexes

 

http://www.textweek.com/movies/themeindex.htm   - Textweek.com. Great Movie Theme Index. You can find references to scenes from all sorts of movies that will help you find just the right clip to use to make your point.

 

Forums

 

http://www.ginghamsburg.org/community/index.htm - Ginghamsburg Church. Tons of great free forums.

 

 

Other Good Resources

 

http://www.presentations.com/presentations/magazine/index.jsp

  - Presentations Magazine. Excellent resource to keep you on the cutting edge of the presentation industry. You can sign up for a free magazine and online newsletter that I have found to be very valuable.

 

http://www.worshipleader.com/ - Worship Leader. An excellent way to stay on top of today’s worship issues.

 

http://www.songdiscovery.com/ - Song Discovery. The best way to find new contemporary worship music that you can use as backgrounds as well as praise songs.

 

 

Copyright Information

 

http://www.criterionpic.com – Criterion Pictures. Has a copyright license that covers most of what CVLI doesn’t.

 

http://www.Swank.com - Swank Motion Pictures. Has a copyright license that also covers most of what CVLI and Criterion doesn’t.

 

http://www.churchca.com/covered.html#video – Church Copyright Administration. A company that does all of the copyright work for you! Might be worth it if you are going to use a lot of video stuff from the mainstream.

Thanks to Mel Ming for this information!