How to fight fair
30 June 2008 Jeff Gill
Some only slightly tongue in cheek lessons on how to fight fair taken from the sword fight in The Princess Bride. This was for our weekend meetings on the theme of conflict resolution.
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Hi, School!
27 June 2008 Jeff Gill
This is a little event we do for students moving out of junior school and into secondary school. (For those of you outside the UK, this happens at age 11.) We’ve just finished our promo video. A short version may come later.
You can see the video in high definition and download the original 102 MB Quicktime movie on Vimeo, which is kind of cool.
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Possibly the best thing I have ever seen in my whole life
12 June 2008 Jeff Gill
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Jeff at his best
17 February 2008 Jeff Gill
I made a video for our church meeting morning. The theme of today’s meeting was you at your best. Here I am at my best, or something.
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Her humps
28 January 2008 Jeff Gill
While we are all waiting around for me to have time to write the next installment in our money story, let’s watch Alanis Morrisette’s rather brilliant satirical cover of the Black Eyed Peas song My Humps.
In that same vein, have a read of Tia Lynn’s article on the book Ten Lies the Church Tells Women and my Seven Cheers for St Paul.
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Money: Intro
3 January 2008 Jeff Gill
This is the beginning of a series on the financial journey of the Gill family. I like stories about how people rise above difficult circumstances, but normally one hears or reads such stories after the fact when the protagonist is rich, the bad guys are dead or in jail, and all the struggle is condensed into a three-and-a-half minute song. I thought it might be nice and possibly helpful to do this one in real time with conversation along the way. So here I go. Let’s start with a slideshow about the finances of Britons I made for my church in February 2007.
When I put that slideshow together we were carrying just below the average amount of UK household debt and I was doing a very poor job of managing our finances. In my next money post I will tell the story of how we got to where we are. After that I plan to write about what we are doing to get out of our mess. Some time in the future this story should have a happy ending. I guess I’ll keep going till it does.
You are, of course, welcome to add your stories and ideas at any point.
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Look! Another video
2 December 2007 Jeff Gill
This video will make no sense out of the context of the script, but watch it anyway. It’s only a minute long.
If you click on the link for the script you will notice that it takes you to a wiki site called The Crick. The Crick is the site where I post all my notes for my lessons and messages and sketches.
Why would I want to do that? Several reasons.
- It is a good place to store them.
- I can get to them no matter what computer I happen to be using.
- They are easy to share with people (e.g. actors in the sketches or you).
- Anyone can edit and improve them.
There are many, many wonderful people giving away ministry material on a billion websites all across the internet. Some look like they’ve not been touched since 1998. Others are branded up to the eyeballs so you who’s giving you all that goodness.
The thing is, for incredibly picky people like me nothing, whether free or purchased, is quite right. I always end up changing it to make it fit what I am doing. So I thought, what if lots of people could give away their stuff – and really give it away, unbranded, with no usage restrictions and open to improvement? That would be cool. And useful. In time, once enough material was on there, a creative youth or children’s minister could go to The Crick and put together their own curriculum. For free.
That’s my crazy idea. If you or someone you know might be interested, let me know in the comments or at jeff at gmail dot com. Meanwhile, if you are looking for a sketch, there are six here.
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It's the most covetous time of the year
26 November 2007 Jeff Gill
The thing about Christmas is that it is so easy and fun to poke holes in our own greed. That is the point of this video which we showed at our church yesterday. The production values are not fantastic, but it’s not so bad for a little video camera and iMovie.
In case you are wondering…
- that is the whole Gill family
- the music ( Amy Grant and Stereophonics ) is supposed to go messed up like that
- the logo at the end is a spoof of British electrical retailer Comet
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