Classifieds, Employment, etc

Seeking a Youth/AV/Graphic Designer position

Looking for all that all important Youth leader/speaker who is also proficient in all things technical and A/V while also having a strong background in graphic design and merchandising? My name is Shayne MacKenzie and I am reaching out to the UMC churches of the Emory/Decatur/Stone Mountain area for positions available. My wife and I are attempting to move to Atlanta from Tampa, FL so that she may attend schools nearby. We've decided that this area is where we would like to settle. I started in Student Ministry as a volunteer shortly after high school. Then moved on to intern, Assistant and finally to four full time positions. In addition to my 14+ years of youth ministry skills, I will bring my own graphic design/merchandising company and pro Audio Visual experience. I was just recently certified as a CTS. This is a Certified Technical Specialist certification that was earned through the Pro A/V standards organization InfoComm (http://www.infocomm.org). Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have. shaynnon@mac.com = 813-964-7330 = http://www.lastadammedia.com

Motivational Speaker

Sara Armstrong, author and international speaker is uniquely equipped to provide the solutions to the spiritual challenges in a complex world. As an authority on spiritual formation, diversity and women’s empowerment, Sara’s presentations are entertaining and energetic and offer practical advice on how to overcome adversity and live life to the fullest. Sara is a unique motivational speaker because of her seminary education, international experience in the Peace Corps, six years of survival under the atrocities of Idi Amin in Uganda and leadership as mayor of a small town. Some of Sara’s topics are: Globalization and the Christian Walk – Being Jesus to the Word in the 21st Century, Would Jesus Have a Cell Phone. - A Biblical Approach to Time Management and Stress, Spiritual Positioning System – Care and Maintenance of Your Moral Compass, After Me, You Come First – The 21st Century Woman’s Guide to Fulfillment. Learn more at www.sarmstrong.biz . Contact Sara at (770) 517-2558 or sara@sarmstrong.biz

Social Media Webinars, Training, Speaking, Website Design

Lee Brogden Culberson, a member of Ezekiel33 Southern Gospel Quartet and Lithia Springs UMC, is the principal in Professional Mojo and brings over 15 years of training, development, leadership, keynote, marketing and media experience to you. Outreach Mojo is a unique division of Professional Mojo that specifically focuses on webinars and services to assist churches, small groups and nonprofits. Lee is available to provide onsite training, private webinar developement, social media training, strategy/integration, and site design. She and her husband provide a great time of speaking, learning and music. Find out how to leverage, intelligently, social media and web 2.0 technology for outreach and growth.

Jay O'Callahan, Storyteller

View his website: http://www.ocallahan.com/workshops/index.html
 
Workshops are available in length from ninety minutes to a full week. Jay wants to establish a sense of ease and trust in every workshop. In a very simple way, Jay draws out memories which are the seeds of stories. Depending on the length of the workshop, Jay works with all of the elements of story.
Everyone is creative and the workshops are a time to let the creativity blossom.
 
Stories are the way we understand life. A workshop can be a chance to explore your own story and examine the images that guide you. Or it can be more practical; a chance to explore sound and voice, rhythm and repetition in a story, or to discover how you structure a story.
 

QIdeas, A Gathering of Presenters

http://www.qideas.org/
Be exposed to over twenty presenters on a myriad of topics revolving around 1)Culture, 2)Future, 3)Church, and 4)Gospel, meant to engage and deepen your awareness of these key ideas. Learn from innovators, social entrepreneurs, entertainers, artists, church shapers, futurists, scientists, educators, historians, environmentalists and everyday people doing extraordinary things.

The Gospel of John, A Production

http://www.gospelofjohn.com/homepage2.htm Brad has acted professionally in Atlanta since 1983. He was selected by Atlanta Magazine in 2000 as Atlanta's Best Dramatic Actor and by Creative Loafing (another Atlanta publication) in 2001 as Atlanta's Best Actor. He has performed in over 20 productions at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre and is an Artistic Associate for the Georgia Shakespeare Theatre where he has acted in
45 productions over 20 seasons. In addition, he has performed over the years at every professional theater in Atlanta including Actor¹s Express, Horizon Theater, Theater Emory, Theatre in the Square, Theatrical Outfit and Georgia Ensemble Theatre. At his home church in Atlanta (Chamblee First United Methodist) where he premiered The Gospel of John in July 2000, Brad celebrated his 500th performance on Good Friday evening, March 21st, 2008.

Tom Key, A Performance

http://www.savidge.com/key/default.htm
Tom Key has been, since 1995, Executive Artistic Director of the acclaimed Theatrical Outfit at The Balzer Theater at Herren¹s in downtown Atlanta, a professional company giving dramatic voice to the themes of spirituality, race and community in the American South. As a solo performer, Tom Key has been in demand across North America for three decades, including appearances at The Lambs Theater off-Broadway, The John F. Kennedy Center of Washington D.C., The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Theater Center, The Westwood Playhouse of Los Angeles, The Alliance Theater, Harvard and Yale Universities as well as Oxford University of England. He is well known as the actor and creator of the off-Broadway musical hit Cotton Patch Gospel, "Turns a whimsical Bible Story into an exuberant country western hoedown." (Mel Gussow The New York Times). He has been featured in the award winning television series In the Heat of the Night and I'll Fly Away, as well as the Mirimax Family Films Gordy, and The Adventures of Ociee Nash.

For his performances, direction, or script adaptations based on works including Leonard Bernstein, Harry Chapin, Truman Capote, Saint John, Clarence Jordan, CS Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Hank Williams and Tennessee Williams, he has won critical praise from The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Boston Herald, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. Most recently he directed the critically acclaimed world premiere at Theatrical Outfit of Thomas Ward¹s Keeping Watch. Key's dynamic as a performing artist has been described in the Atlanta publication, Creative Loafing, as: "An actor with such energy that even standing still, he seems to quiver like a divining rod."

Ministry Team Building

Would you like to revitalize your staff to function most effectively as a team? Would you like a blueprint for understanding your co-workers so that you can work in an environment that is free of negative conflict? Would you like to have a comprehensive profile of the strengths and challenges in your ministry team? Beth Burns is a professional life coach with ten years experience facilitating the DISC profile to individuals and to teams. If you know that your team could use objective assessing, followed by COACHING in order to function as a powerful ministry team, please call Beth Burns at 404-550-9088 to learn more. Email: Burns.Beth@gmail.com