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Five great things to do with a digital camera....

Digital cameras offer a cheap simple way making things more fun as well as looking better and often helping to communicate your message more effectively. Here are ten ways we've found to get the most of them at your church or youth group.

1. Who looks after Childrens' work?

If your church is the kind of place where not everyone knows anyone else, it can sometimes be embarrassing for people when it is suggested that "anyone interested in Alpha should talk to John Smith" when not everyone knows who he is. Use your digital camera to take a picture of all those lead or are involved in an activity and then put the pictures on the notice board. Then everyone will know who everyone is.

John Smith is the Church Treasurer. See him for   more details about giving. (Ed isn't that Peter Kaye rather than John Smith?)

2. Why does no one read our newsletter?

They a picture is worth a thousand words...well why do our newsletters have so many words and so few pictures. Save a few a trees and replace some of the words pictures of how much fun things are at your church or youth club. Obviously, if things aren't any fun, then its no use expecting your newsletter to make it great....

3. Annual general snooze?

Is your annual general meeting a cure for insomnia? Do the reports consist of lots of people standing up and saying a few words? Why not take digital pictures all year at each of the major church activities and then present them at the meeting. If you've got a PowerPoint, then you could use that, but even a trusty old overhead projector married with inkjet overhead film will create a great impression. And if a picture is worth a thousand words, you might actually have time for some worship at the meeting too!

4.Got a website? 

Pictures make a website look so much more interesting. Make sure you snap the best bits of what you do and then fill your website full of pictures. And if you've not got time, lend the camera to youth club and give a prize to be the best photo you use. Look for fun images that say "This place is alive" rather than pictures that "we're old and crusty, are you?" And if you want to attract people, always worth checking what the average age in your photos is!

5. Making a bible reading more powerful

If you have an access to PowerPoint projector or an overhead on a Sunday morning, then why not put up some pictures to illustrate the reading or to give it greater impact. We sent the kids out with the camera, a reading from a Psalm and some money to buy fish and chips. What we got back was a memorable sent of images that made the words of the reading truly come alive. 

Oh and....

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