Living Open Source

This year’s Churches Advertising Network, Christmas campaign moves into the virtual world of Second Life. Previous campaigns have been high impact and sometimes controversial. This one promises to be no different.

Just finished a busy few weeks, culminating in this years St Helens Festival. This year the SHINE (the churches of St Helens) marquee took the form of a FairTrade cafe and art exhibition. We gathered Christian artists from churches around the area to display their work and to share something of their faith and art [...]

Back in July I helped set up a Diary Room (a la Big Brother) along with a local colleague, John Draycott, which proved to be a great way of giving people opportunity to encounter the gospel.
I’ve had a few requests for some of the materials and graphics we used. These include stuff for the prayer [...]

The Diary Room on day 2 and 3 continued to be a place where people in their hundreds paused to think about life and their relationships with others, and then prayed.
A simple concept, and a rather unimpressive diary room, but the whole thing caught people’s imaginations. We have spent the whole weekend leading people (and [...]

Spent today at St Helens Show. My Blog has been a bit quiet recently as I’ve been helping put together the SHINE Marquee along with local vicar, John Draycott (SHINE is the organisation that brings together the churches in St Helens aea). So we came up with the concept of creating a Big Brother Diary [...]