Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Upper Midwest
Adjunct Regional Minister for Communication
Current Commitments:
- Regional Event Tech. Support – planning event multimedia needs and handling in-the-moment snafus.
- Website Redesign – transitioning to WordPress CMS and designing a theme encapsulating “Disciples Together”
- DT Express (Disciples Together Express) – monthly regional newsletter formatted for both email and PDFs for printing.
Future Dreams:
- Worship Media – designing a guide to good media use + a quarterly project to work with a handful of congregations on creating videos and other liturgical media art.
- Congregational Website Pilot Project – teaching (via guides + video tutorials) congregations how to setup their own WordPress church web sites.
Disciples Youth Ministry Network
Web Coordinator
The Disciples Youth Ministry Network is an ad-hoc group of ordained and lay ministers who work in youth ministry. An organizing team plans a yearly event and helps make connections and do minister-support through the rest of the year. Adam maintains their website and does electronic troubleshooting for their event registration system.
DiscipleShare
Creator
DiscipleShare is a free online service where people can share Sunday school lessons, group-building activities and other ideas for everyday ministry. Content is provided by the authors themselves (most of whom are bright and energetic lay and clergy leaders from around the church). Adam created the initial pages back in 2001, built it into an database-driven prototype in 2004 and launched a self-sustaining version in 2006. Given the recent evolution in social media technology, Adam is working until Summer 2011 revising the features of DiscipleShare and making it easier to use from different platforms (iPhone, Facebook, regional church websites, etc). DiscipleShare is hosted at www.discipleshare.net.
