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Video projectors have become a valuable ministry tool in recent decades. Fortunately, they have also dwindled in size and weight over the years.

Imagine being able to hold a projector in the palm of your hand. It’s actually already been done. Currently, researchers are working to perfect its implementation into mobile phones, PDAs, and laptops. It operates on laser and 2D holographic technology that eliminates much of the bulk that conventional projectors have.

Unless eclipsed by an even greater technological breakthrough, consumers will some day have access to this technology. What this means for ministry is that small groups, preschool classes, and missionary outreach will easily be able to be equipped with projection technology. It is a technology that innovative ministers could put to good use.

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I recently read an article from Rick Warren’s Ministry ToolBox that discusses how reviewing other pastors’ sermons can be very inspirational and give new insights into enhancing your own preaching. The article itself is great, but I particularly loved the testimony Pastor Rick opened with.

A couple years ago, Pastor Rick was in South Africa teaching. While visiting a village, Pastor Rick met a preacher and had the following conversation:

Preacher: I know who you are! You’re Pastor Rick!

Pastor Rick: How do you know who I am?

Preacher: I get your sermons every week.

Pastor Rick: How do you get my sermons? You don’t have water or electricity in this town where you are. How do you get my sermons?

Preacher: They’re putting the Internet in every post office in South Africa. So once a week, I walk about an hour and a half down to the nearest post office, I download your free sermons, and I come back and I teach it. Pastor Rick, you are the only training I’ve ever had.

This is a truly awesome testimony. It is a great example of how God can use your work for a far greater harvest than you ever imagined. It is all the more reason that we purpose to create ministries of excellence that can not only further your calling but equip other ministers to do the same.

Yes, it’s true! LifeChurch.tv, the innovative church founded by Craig Groeschel, has taken one more innovative step by offering free resources with the launch of LifeChurch.tv Open. They offer free downloads of videos, graphics, and sermon outlines used at LifeChurch.tv.

As I sat down to begin writing Church Relevance’s first blog, it seemed strangely wrong to get straight into relevant content without some sort of an introductory blog. With that said, blogging commence!