If you want to help us provide free resources to missionaries and churches you can do that simply by shopping on iTunes…
From now on before you buy from iTunes click on http://shiftcreative.org/shop.html and click in the iTunes logo … 5% of whatever you spend by clicking that link will support Shift and our mission to do as much free stuff as possible!
Anyone who knows me should know that my computer is my life. My contacts, my schedule, my work projects, my music, my movies, and even the Bible I use the most are all on my computer.
That computer is a 4 year old iMac G5 PowerPC. I got in 2005 and between then and now it has travelled millions of miles, been from coast to coast and border to border, and it has produced videos/graphics/websites that have been seen by hundreds-of-millions worldwide.
I know I need a new one soon… my company, Shift Creative, is saving up to buy a few new computers but until then this is what I primarily use.
Anyways on Monday of this week it crashed. It froze up, turned off, and wouldn’t reboot. Jim and I looked at it and took it apart and figured out that the hard drive must’ve given out.
Let me remind you that EVERYTHING in my life is saved on that computer so to hear that I might’ve lost everything really upset me. We took out the old hard drive, put it in a freezer, put in a new one, got the re-boot discs, and installed OSX on a new hard drive. We then connected the old hard drive to another computer and got all of my important files off of it before it 100% kicked the bucket for good.
So my computer works, I have all of the files I need, and I will be backing everything up about 3000 times a day!
Thanks Jim for the help!
1. Monday we are meeting with some record label executives to discuss Shift Creative doing a music video, website, and photo shoot for a Christian hip-hop/worship artist.
2. Tomorrow we travel to Warner Robins, GA to meet with a church about doing audio/video installation for them.
3. We are finishing up sgacogcamp.com for the state offices … we are also getting ready to write the code so that churches around the state can log on to sgacog.org to upload weekly attendance/financial totals
4. Another church in Savannah is wanting us to do a full audio/video/lighting installation so we will be meeting with them soon… this could potentially be a $200,000+ deal so we are excited
5. We are also working with the Church of Christ program called CIY to purchase gear for them… they are the guys behind Jr. High Believe and the Move Conference for HS students.
6. We have been booked to do a few weddings in the spring. One of them we will set up our cameras and a mixer and record the wedding live and hand the bride a DVD after the ceremony.
That’s just a few of the exciting things… we’ve had some smaller things like logo designs, web designs, and other things but that is all the big stuff…
Clicking around some news/blog sites today during some chill time lead me to an article about a ministry that is talking about overcoming sins and is selling shirts for people to buy when that have overcome certain sins.
One of the shirts proudly shares with the world that the wearer is an “ex-masturbator” . I know this ministry means well but a shirt like that is kind of ridiculous.
Click the link above to read about the newest technology scientists are working on. I’m excited. In 10 years I’ll be 35 so I expect these things for my birthday that year.
This week I changed banks here. SunTrust would not let me do online banking because some business in their system had my social security number as their business ID number and they use the SSN to set up their online accounts. So for 10 months they told me they’d work on it and finally I got tired of the wait. So I switched to a local bank here in Hazlehurst where a guy from the church is the President and everyone else I know here banks at.
Anyways I say all that because I had to show my drivers license to open that account. I remember getting my license back and not knowing where I put it. That same day I had to show it to prove I was 18 when I bought come de-congestant to get over my cold and I couldn’t find it. I opened my wallet and it wasnt there. So the person let me show an old college ID and let me get the medicine but it bugged the crap out of me to figure out where my license was. So I tore my car up… spent literally 2 hours going through every nook and cranny of my car trying to figure out where it fell out to. I called the bank. I checked the folder with all the new bank paper work… no where. I was sooooooo mad and upset… then I checked my wallet one last time and it was there. I had just put it in a hidden section of the wallet when I was leaving the bank.
Anyone else had a huge idiot moment?
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What a sad story!
I recently saw a film about this called 22Weeks … You can check that movie out at 22weeksthemovie.com
Jim is out of town (left for a wedding in Birmingham yesterday and won’t be back until Saturday) so I’m holding down the ShiftCreative.org fort today. We’ve had a huge response to our website and equipment sales. We have a dozen or so churches looking to bring us in to purchase and install equipment for them and we have a dozen or so websites on our plate right now. Keeps me busy but that is good.
Here are some events we are doing in the future:
February 26-28 we will be doing live video and an online stream for a Church of God conference in south Georgia
March 5-7 we will be doing live video and an online stream for another Church of God conference in south Georgia
In May we have a handful of weddings
In June and July we have camps and Christian festivals we are doing live video and recaps for
So it’s going to be a busy spring/summer… but that’s good right? Hopefully I’ll get 100% rid of this cold by then!
The whole purpose behind Shift Creative and Shift Ministries is more than just to pay our bills and run a business. Shift exists to help fund projects that benefit ministries and churches around the country. We want to do as much as we can for free to help missionaries and small churches and non-profits with website design/hosting, video production services, graphic design, and more to keep their ministry and mission relevant. Already we have a waiting list of missionaries and ministries looking for help with these things. All of that is funded through us doing paid projects for churches and ministries that can afford to pay for it. When you buy a website, video, logo, sound equipment, video equipment, or anything else from Shift the small amount we mark up that price (which 90% of the time that price with the mark-up is still cheaper than anything any other company offers).
So some of you have asked me what all we sell, and we are going to make this more in-depth when we get an updated website up in a few days, but I want to list everything here….
1. Custom designed flash or HTML websites
2. Videos (weddings, music videos, sports videos, really anything you need video-wise)
3. photography (wedding, senior pictures, school pictures, family portraits, individual portraits, sports photography, and anything else photo related)
4. Graphic design (logos, newsletters, letterheads, banners, signs, and whatever else you need)
5. Sound Equipment (microphones, speakers, amps, sound boards, cables, and installation)
6. Video equipments (professional cameras, tripods, projectors, screens, software, tv’s)
7. Lighting equipment (can lights, intelligent lights, software, and anything else you need really)
8. Computer equipment (custom built PC’s, Mac’s, software, training)
9. Networking equipment (professionally installed high speed networks for your business or office)
10. Band Management/Booking (whether you need a worship band for a retreat or someone to rock your venues face off on a Friday night we can help)
With any of the equipment sales we can provide training, installation, and consultation. Again a part of what we make doing any of this goes towards helping us provide free resources to missionaries and churches who can’t afford to pay for videos or websites or logos. If instead of making a purchase you just want to donate to these efforts than email us. You can reach me to discuss anything we do at brian@shiftcreative.org
