Call Recorder for Skype

A couple of weeks ago I used ecamm’s Call Recorder for Skype to have a talk with Miriam Foltz, one of the PC (USA)’s Young Adult Volunteers this year. She’s serving in the program’s Belfast site (of which I’m also an alum), and I spoke with her and her supervisor, Mark Sweeney, about the nature of the YAV program and of her work. We also talked about the site where she’s serving, East Belfast Mission.

We’re going to show this video in worship on Sunday, June 5th, the week before the Pentecost Offering. That special offering supports the YAV program, as well as a number of other ministries with children and youth.

I got the idea to do this at the NEXT Church event in Indianapolis last February. A number of participants at that event lifted up the YAV program as a significant source of vocational formation in the life of the church. I’m a big believer and a major beneficiary of it, so I decided to use my connection with Miriam, who I met at Triennium last summer, to give it just a little push from my corner of the world.

Share this video as you wish. Also, I’m a film production rookie, so I’d love y’all’s feedback.

In worship this coming Sunday we’ll show a three-minute video I recorded using Call Recorder for Skype. One of church’s mission co-workers from Beirut, Lebanon, will address our church on the occasion of its 55th birthday. I recorded it today.

Also, during Sunday School I’ll use a video I made using the same program, a split-screen conversation between myself and my friend Brian, where Brian shares his expertise in a highly-complicated subject.

I’m infatuated with this technology at the minute. It seems to be opening up genuinely new opportunities for ministry. Here’s a clip from my conversation with Brian that suggests something of the gravity and depth afforded by this tool.

The tool I’m referring to, of course, is me.