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The World’s Reaction

June 26, 2010 — Leave a comment

I’m a HUGE soccer fan, and have been following the World Cup as often as ABC TV and ESPN3.com will allow me.  I’ve totally tuned out the vuvuzela noise in my head, and am really enjoying the entire month of World Cup soccer.  On Wednesday I was at Summer Camp with our kids, and was only able to watch the first half of the big USA vs. Algeria game on television.  For the second half I constantly refreshed my ESPN mobile page with text updates.  I tweeted how I saw the winning goal HERE.

Today I’m wearing my Captain America t-shirt, and planning on watching the World Cup here in Oklahoma with my Dad and potentially my little brother.  Which is the only way to watch soccer!  I thought this video was a fantastic way to prove that watching soccer in a group is the only way to do it!

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Kidsplace Promotion Video #3

June 24, 2010 — 1 Comment

This is video #3 of our continuing effort to “get the word out” that we have Children’s Ministry available for families that attend Trinity Church.  These are NOT volunteer recruitment video’s, but rather just informational in format.  You can see the first video HERE, and see the #2 video HERE.

Kidsplace Promotion #3 from Jonathan Cliff on Vimeo.

We will be running these videos throughout the next few months.  They are only 30 seconds in length, and are designed to fit along with whatever video announcements the church is running in weekend services.  They are not designed to be stand-alone.  They will also be used over and over throughout the year.  Make sense?

We outsourced the work to a local place here in Lubbock.  All videos were filmed, created, and designed by Kevin Rhodes over at Dream Taxi.

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Kidsplace Promotion Video #2

June 22, 2010 — 1 Comment

This is video #2 of our continuing effort to “get the word out” that we have Children’s Ministry available for families that attend Trinity Church.  These are NOT volunteer recruitment video’s, but rather just informational in format.  You can see the first video HERE.

Kidsplace Promotion #2 from Jonathan Cliff on Vimeo.

We will be running these videos throughout the next few months.  They are only 30 seconds in length, and are designed to fit along with whatever video announcements the church is running in weekend services.  They are not designed to be stand-alone.  They will also be used over and over throughout the year.  Make sense?

We outsourced the work to a local place here in Lubbock.  All videos were filmed, created, and designed by Kevin Rhodes over at Dream Taxi.

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World Cup Fever

June 16, 2010 — 2 Comments

I am loving the World Cup this year.  Listening to matches in the morning, while doing some office work (Thank You www.espn3.com), following along on some great iPhone apps, and forcing my wife to accept the vuvezela noise!  I played soccer (football) all my life, and miss it terribly.  If only it hadn’t rendered my knees and ankles useless in my 30′s then I’d still be playing…

But a guy can dream, right?

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Ordinary Days

June 14, 2010 — 2 Comments

Every Friday we have what we call “Daddy Day” in our house.  It’s the one day of the week, that their mother is off to work; and the one day of the week that Daddy is home all alone with the kids.  We fill it with trips to the library, wrestling matches, episodes of SpongeBob Squarepants, and PB&J sandwhiches.  The summer months are particularly fun, because I have all three kids the entire time.  During the school year, it’s just my daughter and I; which is its own brand of awesomeness!

I’ve been a parent going on 8 years, and one of the most tragic things I’ve experienced is the speed with which the world now moves.  With kids, life becomes a blur that you cannot help slow down.  That’s just the way it is, and I’ve learned to stop and just take in what I have now.  I’ve been quite proud of myself for taking time to just watch my kids jump on a trampoline, or listen to them slowly read through story books out loud, or laugh with them while playing Mario Cart on the Wii.  It’s not a natural thing to just enjoy the ordinary days, it takes a deliberate move to put yourself in a frame of mind to work at remembering.  We tend to build our memories around the “big events,” but it’s the ordinary days that hold the most power.  It’s the ordinary days that I cherish so much.

Last week I saw this video over at www.strategicdads.com and it resonated with me in so many ways.  Yes, it really is over 7 minutes long, and it is written from a Mother’s perspective…but it’s worth the time.

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