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Tech, Porn and Steven Seagal

June 10, 2011 in Articles, porn, Web/Tech with 2 Comments

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"Yes, I love technology, but not as much as you, you see. But I still love technology. Always and forever." – Kip, Napoleon Dynamite 

Technology isn't just useful or sexy, it's downright powerful.          

When we were preparing to launch Mosaic, we trained our launch team on how to effectively use common, everyday tech to spread the word about what we were doing. This was done more out of necessity than strategy, as we had little money to allocate to marketing. But it worked. Using free tools like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Vimeo and WordPress, we were able to effectively create awareness and momentum. During one month in particular, we were even able to raise $30,000 in 30 days, almost all of which came from individual donors. In the end, we used common, everyday technology to help us launch with over 250 at our first gathering, while spending very little on "marketing." 

Social media is powerful. Technology is powerful.

But like any medium, in it there is capacity for both great good and for great evil.

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New Mosaic Website!

January 17, 2011 in Church Planting, Creativity, Mosaic, Questions, The Church, Web/Tech with 4 Comments

NewsiteToday we launched the Mosaic Lincoln website! This may sound funny to say, but as a pastor, it is really easy for me to get website envy. You know what I'm talking about? I see websites like that of Mars Hill Church in Seattle or Elevation in Charlotte and I have repeatedly tell myself, "Thou shall not covet," "Thou shall not covet," "Thou shall not covet…"   

However, part of the beauty of church planting is that it forces you to discern between what is necessary and what is not right from the get-go. Without a super sized budget to get all of the things I might otherwise be tempted to spend money on, we are forced instead to get creative. And let me tell you, it is amazing what is possible when a group of people get prayerfully creative! 

I am proud of our new website! Not just because I think it is sharp, clean and immersed with helpful and engaging media, but because it was built almost entirely with free, online tools that are available to anyone, anywhere! Rather than dropping a lot of money on a website, we were forced to get creative. And thanks largely in part to the hard work and creativity of our Associate Pastor, Kevin, the result was a great website that hardly cost us anything out of pocket! I wonder what else would be possible if we resisted the urge to spend and instead, opted to get prayerfully creative in our lives and ministries!

Mosaic Lincoln Video

July 31, 2010 in Church Planting, Communication, Creativity, Lincoln, Mosaic, Videos, Web/Tech with 1 Comment

I'm excited to share with you the first Mosaic Lincoln vision video. Considering that we did it all on a VERY small budget (close to nil) I am pretty happy with how it turned out. A thousand thanks to Bill Radtke and Jay R for volunteering so much time to making this happen! Also, as you'll see on the video, our temporary website is now up and live at www.mosaiclincoln.com! As we move forward and our needs grow with our community, we'll invest in something more versatile and comprehensive. For now, however, I think this will serve us well and again, it was free!. (For church planters or anyone else out there looking for a free, flash web option, check out www.wix.com.) 

On a side note, isn't amazing how creative we become when we need to do something we believe in and don't have a large budget to do it with? I think there are always more options out there than we initially perceive and you know, perhaps we'd do well to resist the urge to throw a lot of money at the things we want but rarely need. (Of course, God knows I am preaching to myself on this one!) 

If you are not already on our Prayer Team and would like to get monthly Mosaic Lincoln updates and prayer requests via email and vodcast, you can join here!