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The stage light ghetto switch

Matt Rothacher — Thu, 19 May 2011 04:17:18 +0000

So I’ve been there, you don’t want to lose the mood after your worship time when the lights are off and your screen or TV’s or overhead was giving you some light but the room wasn’t flooded. Well I’m here to help, cause trust me I’ve been there. What I’ve found to be an extremely Continue reading →

The Dropbox

Matt Rothacher — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:20:19 +0000

So I’m the guy thats always needing to transfer files from one computer to another! And sure I have a flash-drive attached to my keyring and sure I’ve had to email files to myself to get what I worked on at home to the office where the printer resides. But a couple of moths ago Continue reading →

Announcements: Video Style

Matt Rothacher — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:47:28 +0000

“in my opinion the video announcements have been the most effective. Why? Because for some reason we’re trained to watch whats on the screen…”

Stage Lighting on a budget

Matt Rothacher — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:23:58 +0000

For most of us small church youth pastors stage lighting is a luxury we can’t afford, right up there with a fully functional sound system. Well let me tell you what we did in this particular situation. I walked down the lighting aisle at WAL-MART and picked up a couple of those clamp lights you Continue reading →

Framed Shirt Art

Matt Rothacher — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:14:15 +0000

Something I’ve always found cool, thats a great way to decorate empty walls with class is “Framed Shirt Art.” It’s a very simple and inexpensive way to add sentimental decorations that are unique to your group. All you need is an event T-shirt and a picture frame: We use our church’s Disciple Now T-Shirts, but Continue reading →

Trash Bag Sanctuary for under 50 bucks

Matt Rothacher — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:32:27 +0000

When I first moved to my current church we had no space to meet in on Wednesday nights. AWANA needed our one place that was ours, in fact AWANA pretty much needed the entire facility. Now I will preface this article by telling you that I was the first full-time youth pastor in the church’s Continue reading →

Trying to do to much?

Matt Rothacher — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:10:55 +0000

So I went to restroom today at a local restaurant and this was what I was met with. Now I don’t mean to be gross but this is a classic example of trying to do too much with too little. This is also, an unfortunate pit many youth guys/girls fall into while trying to make Continue reading →

www.youcantgooglethis.com

Matt Rothacher — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:14:35 +0000

So I was driving home from town the other day and drove past a billboard that had this on it, underneath the picture was the web address www.youcantgooglethis.com Now I won’t spoil the fun, you can click the link above and see what it says. I will tell you that I like it! I think its Continue reading →

Advertising

Matt Rothacher — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:01 +0000

So I’m a big fan of videos and I have found that short humorous videos are great for promoting an event or series in your ministry. I’ve included two examples: The first is an ad parody of the popular Sonic ads for our churches building campaign. The point was just to bring awareness. The second Continue reading →

Random Video ideas

Matt Rothacher — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:39:52 +0000

[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] So this one is not for the casual video constructor, ha ha, but the principle is. The point of this one is that you can take something mundane, everyday and normal and turn it into an Continue reading →