Funeral Recordings

About 30 years ago, during my training for ministry, I conducted my first funeral service. It was a family funeral. A great uncle of mine had died and I was asked to conduct the service. Some other family members were not able to attend the service, and unbeknown to me a cousin had arranged with the Crematorium staff for the service to be recorded. The service went well, my uncle…

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Feedback

Always ask for feedback after an event or meeting. Why? Because some,but not all, will give it anyway and you’ll hear the extremes but not the overall picture. The folk who will say, “complete waste of time and money”, will tell you anyway and we all know that the negative comments linger with us much more than the positive ones. The comments “that was a really helpful and productive meeting”,…

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IT’s For Ministry

Back in February 2001, nearly 20 years ago, I registered the domain name itsforministry.org – IT’s for Ministry. Initially this was a place to host “Talks to Children”. Talks2Children.itsforministry.org is still there, with some Children’s Address type ideas. It hasn’t been updated for a while! IT, Information technology has supported the ministry of the Church in many ways in recent decades, and now in the midst of the Covid19 outbreak…

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Getting started with Zoom

Many of us are on a learning curve with the various video conference possibilities during this time… Zoom provide on-line advice at this link: Zoom | Support during the COVID-19 pandemic Getting started with ZOOM It’s not as complicated as you may think to get up and running with Zoom! To join a meeting you DO NOT require to have a ZOOM account and login. Phoning into Zoom Meeting Getting…

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Edit/ Delete FaceBook Posts

Had second thoughts about that Facebook post, just noticed a typo, spelling mistook, or the effects of auto-correct? Facebook posts can be edited or deleted Scroll to the post you want to edit. Depending on whether you are on a tablet, phone, Windows, Linux or whatever… this may vary slightly… but you should see three dots, or a down arrow icon… in the upper-right corner, click the three-dot or down-arrow…

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