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		<title>10 Day Prayer and Fasting at Irving SDA Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who have experienced the power of prayer, I believe you understand that there is no question that prayer makes us calm, connects us to our loving God, and makes things happen. Fasting is usually accompanied our prayer when we are really determined and surrendered everything to His hand. Starting last August 21, 2011, [...]]]></description>
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<p>For those who have experienced the power of prayer, I believe you understand that there is no question that prayer makes us calm, connects us to our loving God, and makes things happen.</p>
<p>Fasting is usually accompanied our prayer when we are really determined and surrendered everything to His hand.</p>
<p>Starting last August 21, 2011, the Irving SDA church, the church that I attend every Sabbath here in Dallas, are having the 10 day prayer and fasting program.<br />
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<h5>How is it done?</h5>
<p>Two Sabbaths ago, the program coordinator lady passed two <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoXYDnKYbeBTdGxhMm1YZHloZk5KNk5fdHg3bTdNRHc&#038;hl=en_US">sheets of paper</a> that have the 15-minutes time blocks of in a day in which the church member can volunteer to pray every day for 10 days by writing their name in certain time blocks they choose.</p>
<p>There are 96 time blocks (24 x 4) and since the number of church members is less that, then she encouraged people to volunteer for 2 time blocks each, though not necessarily subsequent time blocks.</p>
<p>For 10 days, the primary goal is to pray for the Irving SDA church mission, but there are also different topics that the church members are asked to pray for.</p>
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<p>The fasting part is a modified fasting, different from any kind of fasting that I&#8217;ve heard before. It doesn&#8217;t require the church members to fast for 10 days without food nor water, rather it asked them to reduce the number of meal they have everyday by one.</p>
<p>So for those who are used to have three meals a day, then they are asked to have two meals a day. For those who have two meals a day, then they are asked to have one meal a day, and so on.</p>
<p>The last interesting part of the program is, the church members are also asked to fast a bad habit they have during the 10 days (and hopefully they will stop completely afterward).</p>
<p>Today is the fifth day into the program, and so far I believe I got closer to God. Thank you Irving SDA church for having this program. I challenge you to do this in your church, and experience for yourself the miracles that will happen when all the church pray together continuously for the church mission. God bless you <img src='http://djitz.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Youth Ministry Web Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: This post was written by me two years ago for Youth Insight Resource magazine, but I think it&#8217;s still aplicable, *other than the Facebook part* ) In this web 2.0 era, collaboration is what makes the web interesting, and I believe the youth ministry can benefited much from it. Sometimes the best information doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>(Note: This post was written by me two years ago for Youth Insight Resource magazine, but I think it&#8217;s still aplicable, *other than the Facebook part* <img src='http://djitz.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> ) </em></p>
<p>In this web 2.0 era, collaboration is what makes the web interesting, and I believe the youth ministry can benefited much from it. Sometimes the best information doesn&#8217;t come from the article itself, but from the comments written by the article readers.</p>
<p>When it comes to a great youth ministry web resources, I primarily look for two things. First is the fresh activities ideas because this was what I, as a youth leader, was always constantly looking for. Second, is the stories and tips of other youth leader experience with their youth groups.</p>
<p>I scourge the web for different websites that can be useful for youth ministry and found the following websites worth mentioning. (<del datetime="2011-04-22T03:51:34+00:00">Sorry guys, but Facebook does not belong to the list, at least not yet..</del>).<span id="more-558"></span></p>
<h5>#1. Insight</h5>
<p><a href="http://insight.typepad.co.uk/insight/">http://insight.typepad.co.uk/insight/</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-559" title="1-insight" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/1-insight.jpg" alt="1-insight" width="400" height="213" /></p>
<p>Insight is a blog about youth ministry and leadership by Grahame Knox who has  27 years of experience as Christian youth worker and trainer.</p>
<p>What I like most are his two ebooks, the &#8220;Creative Bible Study Method for Youth Leaders&#8221; and &#8220;40 Icebreakers for Small Groups&#8221;. These two free books are definitely a good ebook for every youth workers.</p>
<p>The Insight blog contains a lot of free resources and ideas for everyone involved in youth ministry, and they are not only limited to games only. You can also find some discussion starters and Bibly Study methods.</p>
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<h5>#2. Creative Youth Ideas</h5>
<p><a href="http://www.creativeyouthideas.com/blog/">http://www.creativeyouthideas.com/blog/</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-560" title="2-creative youth ideas" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2-creative-youth-ideas.jpg" alt="2-creative youth ideas" width="400" height="201" /></p>
<p>Another blog full of free resources for youth ministry is Creative Youth Ideas created by Ken Sapp. Ken had almost 20 years of experience of youth ministry with teens from around the world.</p>
<p>There are a lots of resources that can help your youth ministry, ranging from devotionals, dramas, and other activities. Most of the post are short and thus quick and easy to read.</p>
<h5>#3. EGAD! Ideas</h5>
<p><a href="http://www.egadideas.com/default.asp">http://www.egadideas.com</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-561" title="3-egadideas" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/3-egadideas.jpg" alt="3-egadideas" width="400" height="201" /></p>
<p>EGAD! Ideas is created by Chris Fane and he claimed his website has the largest collection of free youth group games online. With over than 1,700 free games and resources (and growing), the claim may be close to true.</p>
<p>What I found interesting from this website is the fact that not all 1,700 resources are created by Chris himself. Most of the resources are actually submitted by the site visitors. Now, this is the web 2.0 collaboration I&#8217;m talking about.</p>
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<h5>#4. The Source for Youth Ministry</h5>
<p><a href="http://www.thesource4ym.com/">http://www.thesource4ym.com/</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-562" title="4-thesource4ym" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/4-thesource4ym.jpg" alt="4-thesource4ym" width="400" height="201" /></p>
<p>Now, when it comes to the completeness resource for youth ministry, this website created by Jonathan McKee definitely is on top of the list. Not only it has lots of games, activities and discussion ideas, it also has podcasts, questions and answers section, and Jonathan&#8217;s personal blog.</p>
<p>I like the movie and music discussion sections of this website. I believe these two sections can be a very great activity ideas for your youth ministry if you haven&#8217;t implemented them.</p>
<h5>#5. Tim Schmoyer</h5>
<p><a href="http://timschmoyer.com/free-youth-ministry-resources/">http://timschmoyer.com/free-youth-ministry-resources/</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-563" title="5-lifestudentministry" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/5-lifestudentministry.jpg" alt="5-lifestudentministry" width="400" height="201" /></p>
<p>This website of Tim Schmoyer is unique in that it&#8217;s really full of free resources packaged in web 2.0 style. A section called &#8220;free youth ministry resources&#8221; in his website has more than what you asked for.</p>
<p>I  enjoy his articles and video tips about youth ministry, check out this website and hope you can also find some ideas that can be useful for you and your youth ministry.</p>
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<h5>#6. Pastor 2 Youth</h5>
<p><a href="http://www.pastor2youth.com/index.php">http://www.pastor2youth.com/index.php</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-564" title="6-pastor2youth" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/6-pastor2youth.jpg" alt="6-pastor2youth" width="400" height="200" /></p>
<p>The website is created by Ryan Nielsen and loaded with hundreds of games.</p>
<p>To unlock all the resources available in this website, you have to register first (free) and login to the YM Exchange. Without registering, you still can access the games and several papers though.</p>
<p>I recommend you to spend several minutes to register and check the YM Exchange in this website. It contains great discussion starters, illustrations, Powerpoint games and lessons.</p>
<h5>Conclusion</h5>
<p>Although I listed only six websites, there are so many other sources in the internet that you can find to help you with youth ministry. Some websites that may not contain specifically free youth ministry resources but still can help you includes Youtube, Google Books, Wikipedia, and Facebook (yes, an AY leader friend of mine use Facebook to spread the church AY announcements effectively ).</p>
<p>Have a great time with your youth ministry and God bless you!</p>
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		<title>Three Seventh-Day Adventist Media iPhone Apps Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I posted my blog post of &#8220;Five Free iPhone Apps for Seventh-Day Adventists&#8221;, I got a significant number of visitors to this blog from search engines. Though I don&#8217;t want to make a quick conclusion, it somehow means that there are a lot of SDA who are curious about what kind of apps [...]]]></description>
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<p>Ever since I posted my blog post of &#8220;Five Free iPhone Apps for Seventh-Day Adventists&#8221;, I got a significant number of visitors to this blog from search engines. Though I don&#8217;t want to make a quick conclusion, it somehow means that there are a lot of SDA who are curious about what kind of apps related to the church are available in the iTunes store.</p>
<p>In this blog post I&#8217;m going to review three more SDA apps that are specifically related with the information media.<span id="more-548"></span></p>
<h5>1. SpiritRenew</h5>
<p><a title="Link to SpiritRenew page in iTunes Store" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spiritrenew/id331623600?mt=8" target="_blank"> by: SimpleUpdates</a></p>
<p><img style="border: 0px initial initial;" title="SpiritRenew icon" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-shot-2011-04-20-at-8.20.35-PM.png" alt="Screen shot 2011-04-20 at 8.20.35 PM" width="81" height="81" /></p>
<p>Last week I received a blog comment from Rich DuBose regarding the SpiritRenew app that he mentioned is produced by the Pacific Union Conference. So I immediately downloaded the app and see what is it about.</p>
<p>The app basically contains Christian articles and stories that covers a lot of topics from career to the women&#8217;s world. It is interesting to note that the website version is called <a title="Link to AnswersForMe" href="http://www.answersforme.org/" target="_blank">AnswersForMe</a>.</p>
<p>One major drawback of the app is, it cannot run offline. It seems that the app doesn&#8217; download the articles and thus it requires internet connection to run it.</p>
<h5>2. Spectrum</h5>
<p><a title="Link to Spectrum app in iTunes store" href="http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/spectrum-magazine/id379571811?mt=8" target="_blank">by: Association of Adventist Forum</a></p>
<p><img style="border: 0px initial initial;" title="Spectrum icon" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-shot-2011-04-20-at-8.19.29-PM.png" alt="Screen shot 2011-04-20 at 8.19.29 PM" width="85" height="81" /></p>
<p>Spectrum is the iPhone app for the Spectrum magazine. If you&#8217;re not familiar with the magazine, it worth to check their website <a title="Link to Spectrum Magazine website" href="http://spectrummagazine.org/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s good about the app? It&#8217;s just a simple app to read the blog posts and articles in the west from the iPhone, nothing really fancy. However it downloaded these articles whenever we access them for the first time, so we still can read these articles offline.</p>
<p>The bad sides? Some of the app features are not working yet (the Cafe Hispano and SS Lesson) and it seems that the app is really at an early stage of development, hopefully we&#8217;ll see some updates in the future.</p>
<h5>3. iRecord</h5>
<p><a title="Link to Spectrum in iTunes store" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/irecord/id401540076?mt=8" target="_blank">by: Seventh-Day Adventist Church (SPD) Limited</a></p>
<p><img style="border: 0px initial initial;" title="iRecord icon" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-shot-2011-04-20-at-8.19.50-PM.png" alt="iRecord icon" width="86" height="84" /></p>
<p>iRecord is the iPhone app of the <a title="Link to Record Magazine website" href="http://record.net.au/" target="_blank">Record</a> magazine, the official news magazine of the SDA in the South Pacific Division.</p>
<p>This application looks a bit more sophisticated that the previous two apps. It enables us to read the blog, watch videos, and read the latest issue of the magazine.</p>
<p>The good? It also downloads the articles to the iPhone so it doesn&#8217;t require constant internet connection to run. It&#8217;s also more colorful and interesting to see compared to the SpiritRenew and Spectrum.</p>
<p>The bad? For a reason that I cannot understand, the picture of each articles takes almost half of the the screen and it stays there when we scroll down the article, as if the screen size is not small enough.</p>
<p>Another thing is, the magazine issue is not optimized to be read in a mobile device. I notice some loading time overtime I scroll to read the magazine. The problem that is caused by the large size of the magazine PDF file (~7.1 MB).</p>
<h5>Conclusion</h5>
<p>I&#8217;m really happy to see there are more SDA appestat have been developed for iPhone and Android. I hope we will see a lot more interesting apps in the future.</p>
<p>All of these apps are all free and they are worth to have if you have iPhone or iPod touch. Have a great time playing around with these apps and God bless! <img src='http://djitz.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Five Free iPhone Apps for Seventh-Day Adventists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you own an iPhone or iPod touch, there are some apps you may want to have in your device. Although not all of these apps are created by SDA, but three of them are. It sort of surprise me because this time the church seems to adopt the hype of mobile application quickly. These [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you own an iPhone or iPod touch, there are some apps you may want to have in your device. Although not all of these apps are created by SDA, but three of them are. It sort of surprise me because this time the church seems to adopt the hype of mobile application quickly. These apps also get updated quite often so far (and I hope they always will).</p>
<p>I only put three apps of the church that I used most, although there are more apps avaiable in the iTunes store.</p>
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<h5>1. Bible</h5>
<p><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bible/id282935706?mt=8" target="_blank">by: LifeChurch.tv</a></p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-516 alignnone" title="Screen shot 2011-01-29 at 10.10.39 PM" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-shot-2011-01-29-at-10.10.39-PM.png" alt="Screen shot 2011-01-29 at 10.10.39 PM" width="100" height="101" /></p>
<p>I believe this app (or other version of it) is a must for everyone who profess that they are Seventh Day Adventist. There are a handful number of Bible apps in the iTunes store, but I believe this one by YouVersion is the best of all.</p>
<p>It has a lot of downloadable versions and low light mode that I like very much.</p>
<h5>2. Sabbath School</h5>
<p><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sabbath-school/id363595588?mt=8" target="_blank">by: Sabbath School and Personal Ministries Department</a></p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-517 alignnone" title="icon-ss-app" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/icon-ss-app.jpg" alt="icon-ss-app" width="100" height="103" /></p>
<p>There was a time when I need to download the SS lesson in PDF and open it using a Document viewer app of my iPod touch. Thanks to this Sabbath School app from the SS Dept, I don&#8217;t need to do the hassle anymore. I only need to download the lessons every quarter from the app so I can view them offline.</p>
<p>It has all the links to all Sabbath School Study Guides, from Beginner, Primary, to the Adult class. Very nice!</p>
<h5>3. EGW Writings</h5>
<p><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/egw-free/id374790551?mt=8" target="_blank">by: Ellen G White Estate, Inc.</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-518" title="icon-egw-app" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/icon-egw-app.jpg" alt="icon-egw-app" width="100" height="98" /></p>
<p>What if you can carry the whole Ellen G White writings library around? With the EGW Writings app, you can. It makes everyone&#8217;s access to the priceless writings of EGW even easier. I should admit I never finish many of her book other than &#8216;Education&#8217; and &#8216;Steps to Christ&#8217; (because those two were required reading in my two college subjects). However, this app makes her writing easily accessible to me anytime, and made me more realize how good her writings are.</p>
<p>It comes with a KJV Bible included. I believe this app can be a favorite app of pastors and evangelist who like to quote the inspired writings.</p>
<h5>4. Beliefs</h5>
<p><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beliefs/id336492083?mt=8" target="_blank">by: Hye Multimedia Ministries LLC</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-520" title="icon-beliefs-app" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/icon-beliefs-app.jpg" alt="icon-beliefs-app" width="100" height="102" /></p>
<p>Whenever some people ask you what are the doctrines SDA believes in, you can open this app and read everyting about the 28 SDA fundamental beliefs to them. It is not the full version of the book we all know, but rather a brief description of each doctrine and Bible verses that support it. It is very handy and simple app that can refresh our faith anytime we need it.</p>
<h5>5. Sunrise Sunset</h5>
<p><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sunrise-sunset-free/id333203697?mt=8" target="_blank">by: Brett Cato</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-521" title="icon-sunset-app" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/icon-sunset-app.jpg" alt="icon-sunset-app" width="100" height="97" /></p>
<p>Whenever you&#8217;re not sure what time the Sabbath starts? Just set your location in this app and it will show you the sunset in where you are at that particular date. It is not 100% accurate but it really get close to it.</p>
<p>The app is really useful if you are living in a place where the sunset time can change quite dramatically due to the seasonal change or daylight savings time.</p>
<h5>Wrap-up</h5>
<p>As more and more people get mobile device, we will see more and more mobile apps. Other than iPhone, the next big name in mobile device now is Android, and I believe some of these apps have their Android version available as well. I&#8217;m happy that the church sees the opportunity of spreading the Bible through this media.</p>
<p>If you know other apps that can be useful for the Christian life, please let me know and write on the comments below. <img src='http://djitz.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Four Sabbath School Video Discussion Resources</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is really interesting to know that there are several video of Sabbath school discussions online now. Four years ago I only know Sabbath School University that I usually watch before I lead Sabbath school (SS) class discussion in my church. Watching SS discussion online is helpful for SS leaders because this will help them [...]]]></description>
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<p>It is really interesting to know that there are several video of Sabbath school discussions online now. Four years ago I only know Sabbath School University that I usually watch before I lead Sabbath school (SS) class discussion in my church.</p>
<p>Watching SS discussion online is helpful for SS leaders because this will help them to hear some of related discussion possibilities of the lesson, and also see how the other SS leaders lead a group discussion. I strongly suggest SS leaders (especially new leaders) to at least watch one of these videos prior to lead a SS group discussion.</p>
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<h5>Sabbath School University</h5>
<p><a title="link to SSU" href="http://www.sabbathschoolu.org/" target="_blank">link</a></p>
<p>This is simply my favorite SS video discussion because it is a young adult SS group of 4 people (Andrews University students) and it runs for 28 minutes, so it doesn&#8217;t really bore me. Depending on the participants and the leader, sometimes the discussion can be very interesting. It is structured very well although it doesn&#8217;t follow the day to day SS lessons.</p>
<h5>Amazing Facts Central Study Hour (Sacramento SDA Church)</h5>
<p><a title="link to Amazing Facts Central Study Hour" href="http://www.amazingfacts.org/Television/CentralStudyHour/tabid/76/Default.aspx" target="_blank">link</a></p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve watch one of Doug Batchelor&#8217;s Amazing Facts program, then you know the great Bible knowledge he has, and how interesting is his presentations. The AF Central Study Hour is a 60 minute long lead by him or the church&#8217;s Youth Pastor. It was more like a sermon actually, so the pastor speaks in front of the church and the only participation of the congregation is reading the Bible passages.</p>
<h5>Hope Sabbath School Study (Forest Lake Church)</h5>
<p><a title="link to Hope SS Study" href="http://media.forestlakechurch.org/hopeclass" target="_blank">link</a></p>
<p>The Hope SS Study is a mix of both SSU and AF Central Study Hour. It is lead by a Pastor, but it is not addressed to a church congregation. The participants are a group of 12 young adults and thus there is more interactions compared to AF CS Hour presentation. It is a 60 minute video that is full of good discussions.</p>
<h5>Upland Indonesian Church &#8211; by Roger Tauran (lesson in Bahasa Indonesia)</h5>
<p><a title="link to Upland Indonesian Church" href="http://www.uisda.org/" target="_blank">link</a><br />
<a title="link to Dr. Roger Tauran's vimeo" href="http://vimeo.com/user364719" target="_blank">link to Dr. Roger Tauran&#8217;s vimeo</a></p>
<p>This is the only SS video discussion I found presented in Indonesian language. It is a 30 minute SS lesson delivered by Pastor Tauran, and his son, Dr. Roger Tauran. For Indonesians who likes to listen to a good SS lesson video (me included), the effort of Tauran family is greatly appreciated. As this is is probably the only SS lesson video that is member-sponsored and initiated.</p>
<p>The lessons follow the day by day SS lessons in the study guide, but it also includes a lot of extra related stories and information, mostly in health related fields probably because both Pastor Tauran and Dr. Roger Tauran have great interest in health and medical fields.</p>
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>It is really good to see that the SDA church are taking the advantage of modern technology, such as internet and videocast, to spread the Sabbath School discussions to more people around the world through the internet.</p>
<p>I hope these projects can overcome all challenges and will not be some short-lived projects only, but rather will be some starting point for reaching out more people who wants to know about Bible and Jesus.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the banner design for Tumoutou Bekasi children Sabbath School. (Click image to see the full size image) Design story One time there was an idea to create a banner for the children Sabbath School, something that they can bring and show whenever they attend any occasion outside of church. The initial design was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_363" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 560px"><a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/tumoutou-kids-bannerized-_1800.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-363     " title="Tumoutou Kids Banner" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/tumoutou-kids-bannerized-_1800-300x60.jpg" alt="Tumoutou Kids Banner" width="550" height="110" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Tumoutou Kids Banner</p></div>
<p>This is the banner design for Tumoutou Bekasi children Sabbath School. (Click image to see the full size image)</p>
<h4>Design story</h4>
<p>One time there was an idea to create a banner for the children Sabbath School, something that they can bring and show whenever they attend any occasion outside of church. The initial design was created by Venska Walean, a student in Powerpoints Sabbath School class, because I thought who knows what the children loves other than themselves. I also have seen so many drawings she made and I like the beautiful color she chose.<span id="more-361"></span></p>
<p>This is the picture of the design she made. I knew that I&#8217;ve asked the right person. (Click image to see the full size image)</p>
<p><a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/tumoutou_kids_initial_design.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-366" title="tumoutou_kids_initial_design" src="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/tumoutou_kids_initial_design-300x200.jpg" alt="tumoutou_kids_initial_design" width="500" height="330" /></a></p>
<p>I then digitalize the design to Adobe Illustrator and add some more scribbles around the main letters. The result is something that really captures the fun, colorful life of little children who love Jesus.</p>
<p>If you have comment about the design, please write your comment below.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been almost a year ago when I left Bali but I will never forget the experiences I had there. I remember clearly more than two years ago when I received a confirmation that I will be placed in Bali, I googled for Adventist churches available in Bali. There is not so many Adventist church [...]]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s been almost a year ago when I left Bali but I will never forget the experiences I had there. I remember clearly more than two years ago when I received a confirmation that I will be placed in Bali, I googled for Adventist churches available in Bali.</p>
<p>There is not so many Adventist church in Bali, there were four established churches and several study group as I left last February 2010.</p>
<p>The Adventist churches I know are:</p>
<p>1. Gereja Advent Denpasar<br />
2. Gereja Advent Hang Tuah<br />
3. Gereja Advent Nusa Dua<br />
4. Gereja Advent Singaraja</p>
<p>From the four SDA churches, I managed to visit three of them during my entire 20 months in Bali. I didn&#8217;t have a chance to visit to Singaraja church, although it&#8217;s supposedly the nearest church from Bali Camp.</p>
<p>So the following are the churches I&#8217;ve visited.<span id="more-347"></span></p>
<p><strong>*Notes about public transportation in Denpasar:</strong><br />
Although Denpasar is a modern city, unfortunately when it comes to public transportation, it certainly is lacking. So if you are going to these churches by public transportation, these are your options:</p>
<ol>
<li>Ojek &#8211; depending on the distance you might need to pay Rp15,000 or more.</li>
<li>Angkot &#8211; a very unique thing I found in Bali is, there is no definite route for this blue minivan. You need to specifically ask the driver if he is willing to drive you to the address or at least very near to it. The fare is Rp4,000 &#8211; 6,000.</li>
<li>Taxi &#8211; certainly it is available all throughout the city. But be careful of ridiculous charge the driver might give to you if you don&#8217;t negotiate clearly in the beginning about how much you are going to pay. Depending on the distance, but averagely it will cost Rp50,000.</li>
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<h5>1. Gereja Advent Denpasar (Surapati)</h5>
<p>Address: Jl.  Surapati IV No.6 Denpasar<br />
Contact person : Pastor Susilo Mundriharto<br />
Mobile : 0361 &#8211; 233677</p>
<p>This is the first church I went to in Bali and it is also the church that I went to most of the time. Perhaps it is also the church that has largest member in Bali.</p>
<h4>How to get there?</h4>
<p>The location of the church, although it can be said at the heart of the Denpasar city, unfortunately is a little bit obscured. I was very blessed I was able to reach the church on my first visit without even getting lost.</p>
<p>It is located in an alley to the right side of Jl. Hayam Wuruk if you go from the Puputan Square direction.</p>
<p>It is near the Puputan square in Denpasar, which is also actually not so far from Jl. Sumatera, onf of the central street for souvenirs in Bali.</p>
<h4>Parking space</h4>
<p>Since it is located in an alley, finding parking space may be a bit tricky though the church has parking space in front of it, that can be filled with several cars.</p>
<h5>2. Gereja Advent Hang Tuah</h5>
<p>http://adventistbali.org/</p>
<p>Jl. Drupadi 9x, Renon, Denpasar<br />
Contact person: Pastor Raymond Lohonauman<br />
Mobile: 0817-397384<br />
Email: raybalidio@yahoo.com</p>
<p>This church can be called as the most foreigner-friendly church in Bali due to the bilingual service it usually has. For this reason also this church has the most number of foreigner attending the church every Sabbath. I&#8217;ve met a Japanese lady, Filipino couple, and Russian guy in this church.</p>
<p>They have English Sabbath School group to accommodate foreigners, and they sing the SDA hymnal in both Bahasa Indonesia and English.</p>
<h4>How to get there?</h4>
<p>It is easily accessible by private transportation and ojek or taxi, but not with angkot because it is not located near angkot route.</p>
<p>The church has put up a Google Map directions in its website, so you can check their website or click <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;source=embed&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=104727957093557350439.0004754ff874518e3f7d7&amp;ll=-8.696087,115.198517&amp;spn=0.095025,0.085831&amp;z=12" target="_blank">here</a> to go immediately to their Google Map with the directions.</p>
<h4>Parking Space</h4>
<p>It has a lot of parking space available.</p>
<h5>3. Gereja Advent Nusa Dua</h5>
<p>Address: Jl. Kampus Udayana, in front of Graha Anyar Jimbaran 80361<br />
Contact person : Pastor Yanto Lukas<br />
Mobile : 0817-483 2338<br />
Email : raybalidio@yahoo.com</p>
<p>If you are staying further south of Denpasar, then maybe you may want to attend church at Nusa Dua SDA church, since it is located between Nusa Dua and Jimbaran.</p>
<h4>How to get there?</h4>
<p>The problem is, I forgot how to get there. All I remember is it&#8217;s near Udayana University and on the way going to GWK and Uluwatu. You may want to call the contact person above for the detail direction to the church.</p>
<h4>SDA Church in Bali Schedule:</h4>
<p>Sabbath School : 09:00 &#8211; 10:45<br />
Divine Service: 11:00 &#8211; 12:00<br />
Youth meeting : 16:30 &#8211; 18:30<br />
Midweek : 19:00 &#8211; 20:30</p>
<h5>Closing Words</h5>
<p>Whether you are having vacation in Bali or will stay permanently, one less thing to worry is that there are SDA churches around. Though mostly are located in the southern Bali, it&#8217;s the area where you most probably will stay also.</p>
<p>Though I lived around 40km away from Denpasar, God provided some methods of transportation every Sabbath so I can come to church regularly and on time. It took 1.5 hour every Sabbath for me to reach Surapati SDA church but it all worth it.</p>
<p>Hopefully I can help you find the SDA churches in Bali through this blog post and may God bless you brothers and sisters!  <img src='http://djitz.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the social networking age! Oh yes, everything in the internet nowadays must carry that word &#8216;social&#8217; or they will be so outdated, or so 2009 as they say it.. In recent years the internet has become so accessible to all people, people no longer need a computer to exist in the internet. They [...]]]></description>
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<p>Welcome to the social networking age! Oh yes, everything in the internet nowadays must carry that word &#8216;social&#8217; or they will be so outdated, or so 2009 as they say it.. In recent years the internet has become so accessible to all people, people no longer need a computer to exist in the internet. They can make their presence by their cellular phones, be it the iPhone, Blackberry, or even any humble Nokia 1210 series.</p>
<p>It is no coincidence also that the biggest name in the social networking world now is.. yes, you know I was going to say it, Facebook! (Sorry Twitter..)</p>
<p>Facebook trend seems to sweep the whole world, more than anything ever in the world of internet. MySpace and Friendster are still there, kicking around, but everyday more and more are switching to Facebook because all of their friends did earlier.</p>
<p>I got to admit I was underestimating Facebook two years ago (that was 2008). I signed up because my friend already signed up to it. In 2009 I got more active in the Facebook, checking it everyday but never participate much. In 2010, I spent my time more in Facebook than checking my email.<span id="more-271"></span></p>
<p>Why? Because it keeps on improving its features and those features makes people spent more and more time in Facebook. For example, in 2008 Facebook didn&#8217;t have the chat feature. There was also few applications, if anything useful. But it is really the goal of Mark Zuckerberg, the young genius behind the Facebook, to make people spent their online time in Facebook and not needing to browse to other websites. Sounds impossible? Well, let&#8217;s just see it two years from now.</p>
<p>Anyway, enough for the presentation of what I know about Facebook, now what are the things that you must know that Facebook can do for your church.</p>
<h5>1. Reaching The Youth</h5>
<p>You heard me saying that more and more people are spending their time in Facebook, and you should use it for your church advantage. Radio and Television stations all know about this secret, if you are having people&#8217;s attention, you have the power.</p>
<p>The fact is more and more youth are using internet, and more and more time they spend in Facebook. You&#8217;ve got to use this to reach them. You have the greater chance to get their attention now using Facebook than using radio or TV (unless it&#8217;s national TV of course).</p>
<p>Still don&#8217;t get what I meant? Here&#8217;s the step by step:<br />
1. If your church doesn&#8217;t have a Facebook page, go create one.. now.<br />
2. If your church doesn&#8217;t have a Facebook group, login to that account or your account and create one.. now.<br />
3. Add as a Friend all the youth people in your church that exist in Facebook, and add all also the adults so they don&#8217;t&#8217; get mad (just kidding..).<br />
4. Try post an invitation that you are going to held a free lunch this coming Sunday in your house and see what happens.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s my guarantee: If no one replies to your invitation, I will pay for the free lunch. (I&#8217;m not serious, you know it).</p>
<h5>2. Increase The Non-Sabbath Interaction</h5>
<p>Here&#8217;s a little problem with SDA youth communication channel; they only runs on Sabbath. Don&#8217;t believe me? Try to volunteer to help the youth leader this term and you will believe me in less than few weeks.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really a classic story, you talk to your church friends about the plan that you are going to have next Sabbath, and you guys have divided the responsibilities and everything looks good until the next Sabbath you find out that no one has done anything.</p>
<p>Why? Because for the whole week none of you know what other&#8217;s are doing or maybe everyone forgets what they should do.</p>
<p>But like I&#8217;ve told you before, it&#8217;s so 2009 man! If your friends are in Facebook, high chance is they will check their Facebook at least once a day. You can send them message or even chat with them whenever they are online, or you can also post message on their wall to get their attention.</p>
<p>What if they are not checking their Facebook that often? Don&#8217;t worry, all the notifications from Facebook will be sent to their email address. It simply increase the chance they will get the message compared to the traditional method of emailing them only.</p>
<h5>3. Maintain The Ties</h5>
<p>However beautiful time we have with our fellow brothers and sisters in the church, at one point in our life we must go somewhere else for school, job, marriage, or whatever reasons.</p>
<p>Keeping the communication is important because it gives us a stronger sense of family and we might help each other in time of needs. With Facebook you can easily check what&#8217;s going on in the lives of your previous church members so you always have something to talk about, use this for your advantage.</p>
<p>You can even check how they look now and where they have been from the photos with their name tagged.</p>
<p>For example, from a Facebook status or Photos you know that a previous church member who moved to a new place two years ago just got married last Sunday. You can easily send her a congratulation message and share about what&#8217;s going on for the previous two years.</p>
<h5>4. Have The Always Updated Contact Information</h5>
<p>If you ever tried to create a church member database you know one thing for sure; having it updated is a lot harder than having it created. People change their cell phone numbers, email, or addresses. It&#8217;s not like few decades ago where people usually change their contact information once every several years.</p>
<p>Nowadays people change their cellphone number or email addresses often, and you may not always know this before you need it.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the good news, people update their own contact information on Facebook,  you don&#8217;t even need to do the job.</p>
<p>Even if they don&#8217;t, you still contact them through Facebook with the advantages explained in the point number two above.</p>
<h5>To be Continued&#8230;</h5>
<p>All right, those are the four things that you can use for your church advantage. I was planning to include the things that Facebook cannot do for your church but it seems that it will be too long for a single blog post, so check out next time for the part 2 of this post for the list of things that unfortunately Facebook cannot help you with.</p>
<p>As always, if you have any comment, ideas, or even better, experiences, about using Facebook for your church advantage, please leave your comment here. <img src='http://djitz.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Lagu Sion for Guitar Players</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember a few years ago when I started playing guitar. I did what most new guitar learner do, I bought the popular Pop songs chord book and tried to play some of the songs. It was good, it taught me to practice guitar chords in fun way. Then, I thought, why there is no [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remember a few years ago when I started playing guitar. I did what most new guitar learner do, I bought the popular Pop songs chord book and tried to play some of the songs. It was good, it taught me to practice guitar chords in fun way.</p>
<p>Then, I thought, why there is no chord book for the songs that we Seventh-Day Adventist always sing every Sabbath?<span id="more-174"></span></p>
<p>So I decided to write down all chords for the whole Lagu Sion (SDA Hymnal in Bahasa Indonesia).  I didn&#8217;t able to find the chords for all the song because there are few songs that I really don&#8217;t know how they sound.</p>
<p>One time, there was a young boy in my church who saw my Lagu Sion that was full of chord scratches and he said he wanted to borrow it. He photocopied the whole Lagu Sion and enlarge it. I then encouraged him to play guitar with the pianist in the church every Sabbath. At first, he was hesitant because he was shy. But I kept pushing him, telling him that he just need to play the chords from the Lagu Sion anyway, most of the songs are already covered. He agreed and now I think he is a better guitar player than I am.</p>
<p>This experience inspired me to publish the chords here in my blog, hoping that there are many guitarist, new and experienced, old and young, who will be benefited from it. If you find that the chords are inaccurate, you can tell me and probably give me the correct chords as well, and I will fix it immediately.</p>
<p>UPDATE (Jan 8, 2012): The Google Docs version is available <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XyBkaSMdaE7Zs8O4NKZtAr5y8dtwLSyz-U33c1qmAwo/edit">here</a>.</p>
<p>*if a song is not clickable, it means I haven&#8217;t have the chords yet</p>
<h5>Lagu Sion</h5>
<p>1. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/001_DI_HADAPAN_HADIRAT_HU.txt" target="_blank">DI HADAPAN HADIRAT HU</a><br />
2. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/002_KEPADA_ALLAH_BRI_PUJI.txt" target="_blank">KEPADA ALLAH BRI PUJI</a><br />
3. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/003_TUHAN_ADA_DALAM_KAABAH.txt" target="_blank">TUHAN ADA DALAM KAABAH</a><br />
4. SEMBAHLAH ALLAH YANG MAHA MULIA<br />
5. SEMBAHLAH ALLAH</p>
<p>6. PIMPIN AKU YA GEMBALA<br />
7. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/007_PERHUBUNGAN_KITA.txt" target="_blank">PERHUBUNGAN KITA</a><br />
8. YA YESUS, YANG AKU KASIH<br />
9. MARI MAHARAJA<br />
10. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/010_KAMI_DATANG_PADAMU.txt" target="_blank">KAMI DATANG PADAMU</a></p>
<p>11. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/011_ANGKAT_DIA_HINGGA_NYATA.txt" target="_blank">ANGKAT DIA HINGGA NYATA</a><br />
12. KAMI SEMBAH SUJUD ALLAH<br />
13. TEGUHLAH ALASAN<br />
14. JIKA KIRANYA LIDAHKU<br />
15. YA ALLAH KOTA YANG TEGUH</p>
<p>16. SUKALAH KITA CRITAKAN<br />
17. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/017_TUHAN_SLALU_PIMPIN_AKU.txt" target="_blank">TUHAN SLALU PIMPIN AKU</a><br />
18. TEGUHLAH ALASAN<br />
19. JIKA KIRANYA LIDAHKU<br />
20. YA ALLAH KOTA YANG TEGUH</p>
<p>21. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/021_SUCI_SUCI_SUCI.txt" target="_blank">SUCI, SUCI, SUCI</a><br />
22. BANGUN, JIWAKU DAN SEDIA<br />
23. BETAPA INDAH RUMAH-MU<br />
24. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/024_IMAN_ORANG_SALEH_KEKAL.txt" target="_blank">IMAN ORANG SALEH KEKAL</a><br />
25. JIKA KU KENANGKAN TUHAN</p>
<p>26. KAMI MAU LIHAT YESUS JURUSELAMAT<br />
27. SEMBAH SUJUDLAH UMAT-NYA<br />
28. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/028_HATI_YESUS_PENUH.txt" target="_blank">HATI YESUS PENUH</a><br />
29. BRIKANLAH, YA TUHAN<br />
30. RAJA KEKAL, PIMPINLAH</p>
<p>31. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/031_KASIH_SURGA_YANG_TERINDAH.txt" target="_blank">KASIH SURGA YANG TERINDAH</a><br />
32. SEPERTI BAPA KASIH ANAK-NYA<br />
33. HAI PUJILAH NAMA YESUS<br />
34. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/034_KU_PUJI_TUHAN_YANG_JADIKAN.txt" target="_blank">KU PUJI TUHAN YANG JADIKAN</a><br />
35. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/035_ADA_TEMPAT_DIAM_TEDUH.txt" target="_blank">ADA TEMPAT DIAM TEDUH</a></p>
<p>36. TUNTUN AKU AGAR KAKIKU, TUHAN<br />
37. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/037_APABILA_DAMAI_PERJALANANKU.txt" target="_blank">APABILA DAMAI PERJALANANKU</a><br />
38. TUHAN, PIMPINLAH AKU<br />
39. LEBIH BESAR DARI KASIH IBU<br />
40. <a href="http://djitz.com/wp-content/uploads/lstxt/040_TIADA_LAIN_PELINDUNG_SPERTI_YESUS.txt" target="_blank">TIADA LAIN PELINDUNG SPERTI YESUS</a></p>
<p><em>&#8230;. (to be updated)</em></p>
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		<title>Lagu Sion PDF</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just last night I was thinking if anyone has created a PDF of Lagu Sion (Indonesian Seventh-Day Adventist Hymnal book). I didn&#8217;t see any in the first and second page of Google results for &#8220;Lagu Sion PDF&#8221; so I assumed that it is not available yet. Thank God, there are so many Powerpoint version of [...]]]></description>
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<p>Just last night I was thinking if anyone has created a PDF of Lagu Sion (Indonesian Seventh-Day Adventist Hymnal book). I didn&#8217;t see any in the first and second page of Google results for &#8220;Lagu Sion PDF&#8221; so I assumed that it is not available yet.</p>
<p>Thank God, there are so many Powerpoint version of Lagu Sion available already. Because to create this Lagu Sion PDF, I use one of the Powerpoint version and copy the lyrics to a text file, then I create the PDF version with Microsoft Word. It really speed up the process, because I don&#8217;t need to type all the lyrics.</p>
<p>So here it is, the Lagu Sion in PDF format:</p>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&#038;pid=explorer&#038;chrome=true&#038;srcid=0B4XYDnKYbeBTMjkzYTMxZDctMDYwNS00Zjg2LWIxNTYtZDI1ZGJiOGY4NTVk&#038;hl=en">Download Lagu Sion PDF Version 1.0</a></p>
<p>*To download, click on File > Download original.</p>
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