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- POWERPOINT CHRISTMAS QUIZ - Don't forget to check out our free PowerPoint based Christmas quiz. This is a good presentation to use in a Sunday School class to help people see what the Bible really says (and doesn't say) about the birth of Jesus. Check it out at: Christmas Quiz.

- NEW BLOG - We aren't using "Blog" software but we have decided to change our new page to an ongoing blog. We will try to put in updates each week or so. Check in often for latest news and tips.

- CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR TECH WORKERS - Most church tech booth workers get little reognition. I suggest you consider buying them Tim Eason's "MEDIA MINISTRY MADE EASY" as a Christimas present. The book also comes with a DVD full of samples and reference material from the book. It runs about $25. Take your tech staff to the front of your church and present the book to them. Check it out at: ChurchMedia.net. We aren't paid for this recommendation, we just pass on information that we think is useful to churches.

. . . .For free printable Children's Sunday School material complete with activities, songs, coloring pages, etc. visit Kim Dailey's children's Sunday School page

. . . . For information about the Bible Tabernacle and a Tabernacle model kit visit: Tabernacle page

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- SEMINAR - I will be teaching with others at a Sunday School Teacher's seminar on Saturday, September 18th in Murfreesboro Tennessee near Nashville. The seminar is at the Kingwood Heights Church of Christ on 115 E. MTCS Rd. For information call: 615-893-8618 or visit: Sunday School Teacher's Seminar There will be special classes for both adult and children's class teachers. Topics include: "Tips & Resources for Teaching Kids", "Tips & Resources for Teaching Adults", ”Sunday School Gizmos & Gadgets”, "Grabbing & Keeping Attention", "Applying Biblical Customs & Places to the Lesson", "Using the Dynamics of Delivery", “Capitalize on the Strengths of Children by Using GoodTools”, “Use the Black light & Overhead Projector to Get Attention” and more! Cost is $15 to $20 per person. Registration starts at 7:30 AM and classes run to 2:45 PM.

- KIM'S CHILDREN'S SUNDAY SCHOOL UPDATE - Since our last issue, Kim has added new lessons and worksheets to her Sunday School lessons page including: "Samuel", "Israel Demands a King", "Gideon" and "Deborah" along with a chart of the Judges of Israel and a worksheet about Gideon located at: Kim's Lessons. She has also added these free Bible Trading Cards: "155 Timothy", "157 Philippian Jailor", "158 Silas", "159 Aquila & Priscilla", "160 Demetrius", "161 Eutychus", "162 Apollos", "163 Felix", "164 Festus", "165 Agrippa", "142 Barnabas", "143 Ananias & Sapphira", "144 Stephen", "145 Philip", "146 Simon the Sorcerer", "148 Cornelius", "149 James", "151 Dorcas", "152 Agabus" These and more are located at: Free Bible Trading Cards In addition to being able to download printable cards, Kim now sells preprinted trading cards including a new set called "Friends & Foes of Christ" as well as inexpensive CD's of printable trading cards and of her lesson material (over 300 pages !).

GAME SHOW TYPE SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE Use this software to set up a "game show" type presentation. You can even buy or build buttons for contestants to push to see who first will answer the questions. This is great for Bible Quiz or Bible Bowl type activities. A neat change from the norm for class. We don't get paid anything to tell you about this product. We are just sending this info out because we think you may like it. Check them out at: Game Show Presenter

GNU AND OTHER FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE - and other free open source based church and religious software http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/08/25/2220201

PROPRESENTER For APPLE - We have listed nearly 40 worship software products on our worship software page. This new one we have found is one of the few for Apples. Visit them at: http://www.propresenter.com.

EasiSlides - The one big difference between EasiSlides and other presentation software is that EasiSlides can display dual-language lyrics for use in bi-lingual churches, as in the case of many bi-lingual Chinese and other language churches worldwide. It is free. Visit them at: http://www.EasiSlides.com.

WORSHIPSESSION - HTML based software that doesn't use a dual monitor setup, can be used 'on stage', and is suitable for spontaneous and free flowing-worship etc. Visit them at: http://www.worshipsession.info.

WORDS OF WORSHIP - This company has announced a new version 4.4 out with "genlock". Visit them at: Click here to visit them at www.WordsOfWorship.com .

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USB TO VGA CONVERTER We have been made aware of a new USB to VGA/SVGA/XGA adapter. It allows you to add a second monitor to a PC or notebook running Windows XP. We have heard of PCMCIA converters before but not for USB. We understand it costs about $99. Sounds pretty handy... Check them out at: http://www.trittontechnologies.com.

TABERNACLE STILL IMAGES Jon Rafn of Johannsson, Iceland has a site that includes a collection of still photos of a 3D virtual model that may be useful to teachers. Visit his still images at: Tabernacle of the Heart Images

- 360 DEGREE PANORAMIC PHOTOS - We have talked about photo bubbles before. These new images are similar but require quicktime software. They aren't specifically Bible related but are an interesting collection of 360 degree panoramic photos from all over the world. Some even come with music! Check them out at: Quicktime 360 Panoramic Photos .

- SEMINAR - The seminar is planned for Saturday, July 24th. The seminar is in Carbondale, Illinois located 2 hours from St. Louis, 6 hours from Chicago, 3.5 hours from Nashville and Memphis.
      We are doing a limited, informal program covering PowerPoint and technology in church seminar. The seminar is free, if you stay for lunch you will be asked to contribute for food. Terry Taylor of eBibleTeacher.com and Tom Childers from Freed Hardeman University are our resource people. We will have some booths set up for eBibleTeacher.com materials and for Freed Hardeman University. This is primarily intended to be an informal seminar for churches in Southern Illinois but if you want to drive in and join us then you are welcome to come..
      Email us if you are coming so we will know how many to plan for. Visit this page for info: Seminar. By the way, several readers asked when we might have seminars in other parts of the country. If you are interested in hosting a seminar at your church, visit: Church Seminars Options

- KIM'S CHILDREN'S SUNDAY SCHOOL UPDATE - Since our last issue, Kim has added new lessons and worksheets to her Sunday School lessons page including: "Gibeonites Trick Joshua", "Achan" (including new song), "Jericho" (including new song) located at: Kim's Lessons. She has also added these free Bible Trading Cards: "#132 Twelve Tribes of Israel", "#133 Deborah", "#134 Gideon", "#135 Samson", "#136 Ruth", "#137 Eli", "#138 Philistines", "#139 Samuel" These and more are located at: Free Bible Trading Cards Kim now sells preprinted trading cards including a new set called "Friends & Foes of Christ" as well as inexpensive CD's of printable trading cards and of her lesson material (over 300 pages!). Check it out at: Kim's Material

- EXPANDED FREE BIBLE MAPS PAGE - We have GREATLY expanded our Bible maps page. We estimate that some 200,000 plus copies of our PowerPoint Bible maps have been distributed. Even so, we recognize that many people don't want the maps in PowerPoint format, they want them as jpg graphics. As a result we have converted over 45 of our maps to 800x600 and 1024x768 size graphic images. These are free maps for your use. We have also completely revamped our coding on this page. If the page doesn't work for you then please let us know. Check them out at: Old Testament Maps and New Testament Maps

- Quick Intro for New Visitors
- New Free PowerPoint Images
- Kim's Children's Sunday School update
- Special Deal on PowerPoint Sermons
- Seminar
- PowerPoint as Kiosk?
- Church Basic Video Design Guide Coming!
- Worship Software Updates
- Making Church Videos Seminar
- NEW FREE POWERPOINT IMAGES - This month we yet again are adding some images to our PowerPoint backgrounds selections. These photos from Terry Taylor and Everett Thornton. They are "Sunshore020", "GreenField01" and "GreenField02" . Check them out on the bottom of the page at: Generic Backgrounds We also have a new image on our "Sermons in One" page, for photos that tell a whole sermon in one image. The new photo is a picture of a large fish with a small fish in its mouth. A fisherman caught a small fish on a hook and a larger fish came by and tried to swallow the smaller fish resulting in it being caught by the fisherman. We call it "GreedFish". It is located at: Sermons In One

- KIM'S CHILDREN'S SUNDAY SCHOOL UPDATE - Since our last issue, Kim has added new lessons and worksheets to her Sunday School lessons page including: "Rahab", "Crossing Jordan", and a "Rahab" Craft located at: Kim's Lessons. She has also added these free Bible Trading Cards: "124 Brass Serpent", "125 Balaam", "126 Joshua", "127 Rahab", "128 Crossing Jordan", "129 Jericho", "130 Achan" and "131 Gibeonites" These and more are located at: Free Bible Trading Cards Kim now sells preprinted trading cards and inexpensive CD's of trading cards and of her lesson material (over 300 pages!). Check it out at: Kim's Material

SPECIAL DEAL ON POWERPOINT SERMONS - Manny Burgos has released a collection of lavishly illustrated PowerPoint sermons called "PowerPreacher". Many images are oil type paintings and vintage photos. The sermons come with speaker's notes and more. I was particularly impressed with his "Video Poems". The poems come with instrumental background music that ,of course, can be muted. Manny is a Methodist preacher and his collection includes a special section for Methodist churches. Even if you are not a Methodist I think you will find some material that you like. Normally, Manny's collection is $49 but he has offered eBibleTeacher.com readers a special discounted price of $39. To view the special discount price page visit: eBibleTeacher.com Discount

- SEMINAR - eBibleTeacher is planning a seminar this Summer and needs an idea of how many eBibleTeacher.com subscribers are interested and what kind of classes to offer. The seminar is planned for Saturday, July 24th. The seminar is in Carbondale, Illinois located 2 hours from St. Louis, 6 hours from Chicago, 3.5 hours from Nashville and Memphis.
     . We have decided to do a limited, informal program covering PowerPoint in church and Sunday School Teacher's seminar. We anticipate doing the seminar for free, if you stay for lunch you will be asked to contribute for food. We plan to use Terry Taylor and Tom Childers from Freed Hardeman University as resource people. We will have some booths set up for eBibleTeacher.com materials and for Freed Hardeman University.
Email us if you are coming so we will know how many to plan for. This is primarily intended to be an informal seminar for churches in Southern Illinois but if you want to drive in and join us then you are welcome to come.. Visit this page for info: Seminar. By the way, several readers asked when we might have seminars in other parts of the country. If you are interested in hosting a seminar at your church, visit: Church Seminars Options

- POWERPOINT AS KIOSK? - You may not realize it, but PowerPoint has a "show as kiosk" feature. You can set PowerPoint up with clickable buttons and self running features. This would allow you to use PowerPoint to set up a kiosk in your church for visitors or members to use. You could make a clickable directory of members or of church events, classes and programs or more. There is no need for each church to write their own Kiosk PowerPoint show. If your church has set up PowerPoint in a kiosk environment would you consider donating a sample show to eBibleTeacher.com to place on the website as a free download? If so, please email me.

- NEW CHURCH BASIC VIDEO DESIGN GUIDE COMING! - Is your church thinking about putting in a video projector system or do you know someone who is? We are planning on opening some web pages with lots of tips for churches on how to set up a video projection system. We are still a few weeks from releasing it.

- WORSHIP SOFTWARE UPDATES - We have recently become aware of even more worship software packages. They include: SONGPRO 3 - A windows based song projection system with a free downloadable trial version. Visit them at: http://creationsoftware.com/songpro.htm and ADORATION - Adoration™ Worshipware™ presentation software for church worship services. Adoration™ allows you to use full motion video as a background to lyric text, and import music. Visit them at: http://www.media4ministry.com. There are also two new free worship software packages available. What is most significant is that these are "open source", that is, they have released the sourcecode for programmers to edit and enhance and provide for collaborative efforts. The first free program is "OPENSONG". For more information, visit their features page. You can download the software at http://opensong.bluecup.net/. OPENLP OpenLP is a Free, open source program for use in Worship Services. The features include a Lyric Database, Bible Database, the ability to handle Powerpoint Presentations, MP3's, AVI's etc. You can download the software at http://www.openlp.com.

- MAKING CHURCH VIDEOS SEMINAR - There will be a seminar concerning how to make effective short religious videos in Elgin Illinois on July 6-9 by "Eyes of the Heart". If their conference is anything near as good as their website then it should be great! Costs appear to run from $195 ot $395 per person. Check them out at: http://www.eyesoftheheart.org/ .

- SUBSCRIBE FOR UPDATES - The eBibleTeacher.com website has over 200 Megabytes of material and 400 pages. New images, PowerPoint sermons and articles are added each month. It is difficult to keep up with what is new. Click on the subscribe button to visit our subscription site. The site will sign you up for our free monthly electronic bulletin (Your address is NOT sold to spammers!) Once a month we will send you a LIST of the new free graphics, PowerPoint sermons and other things that have been added. Just visit our subscription page at: Subscription Info

- NEXT MONTH: More free graphics, more free PowerPoint backgrounds.

- KIM'S CHILDREN'S SUNDAY SCHOOL UPDATE - Since our last issue, Kim has added new lessons to her Sunday School lessons page including: "Jesus is Crucified" and "Jesus Ascends" located at: Kim's Lessons. She has also added new gameboards for teaching at: Gameboards She has also added these free Bible Trading Cards: "116 Water from a Rock", "117 God's Covenant", "118 Golden Calf", "119 Ten Commandments", "120 Tabernacle", "121 Nadab & Abihu", "122 Twelve Spies" and "123 Korah" These and more are located at: Free Bible Trading Cards

3D SOLOMON'S TEMPLE & TABERNACLE - Here is a great site for a 3D virtual Solomon's Temple and 3D Virtual Tabernacle. You will need to download a viewer to see them but it is well worth it. It is great! Later, we will be releasing our own 3D Tabernacle but it isn't quite ready yet. In the mean time check theirs out at: 3D Bible Project

- NEWSLETTER SPONSOR - Several companies have asked us about sponsoring our newsletter. We have been very picky about who and what we would allow to sponsor and advertise in our website and newsletter. This month's sponsor is NEC in conjunction with House of Projectors announcing a new rebate:
************************************************************************************************************************ NEC's and House Of Projector's Great Rebate Continues!

House of Projectors. Buy selected models of NEC projectors and receive valuable mail-in rebates in addition to House Of Projector's everyday special offers. For example, buy the NEC VT46 for just $879.00 with $100 mail-in rebate, or, the LT660K, regularly $1995.00 for only $1795.00 with $200 mail-in rebate. Add to that HOP's everyday offers of FREE 2-DAY SHIPPING and a FREE movie from BLOCKBUSTER, and you have an offer that's hard to pass up. But you'd better hurry. Offer ends April 31, 2004. For more information: House of Projectors NEC rebate. ************************************************************************************************************************

- SEMINAR - eBibleTeacher is planning a seminar this Summer and needs an idea of how many eBibleTeacher.com subscribers are interested and what kind of classes to offer. The seminar is planned for Saturday, July 24th. The seminar would be in Carbondale, Illinois located 2 hours from St. Louis, 6 hours from Chicago, 3.5 hours from Nashville and Memphis.
     . We have decided to do a limited, informal program covering PowerPoint in church and Sunday School Teacher's seminar. We anticipate doing the seminar for free, if you stay for lunch you will be asked to contribute for food. We plan to use Terry Taylor and Tom Childers from Freed Hardeman University. We will have some booths set up for eBibleTeacher.com materials and for Freed Hardeman University.
Email us if you are coming so we will know how many to plan for. This is primarily intended to be an informal seminar for churches in Southern Illinois but if you want to drive in and join us then you are welcome to come.. Visit this page for info: Seminar. By the way, several readers asked when we might have seminars in other parts of the country. If you are interested in hosting a seminar at your church, visit: Church Seminars Options

- OTHER SEMINARS A variety of other people do seminars to help churches learn about how to effectively use technology to teach an in worship. Tim Eason of www.churchmedia.net will be speaking in Dallas at the Lumicon seminar on April 29-May 1st. Also speaking are Jason Moore and Len Wilson, founders of Midnight Oil Productions and authors of Digital Storytellers. Find out more at: Lumicon Seminar There is another seminar in Denver Colorado on using Technology in church on May 1st also. Check them out at: Worship & Technology Seminar

- WORSHIP STATISTICS - Ellison Research has a VERY interesting report on research that they have done concerning how worship is changing in churches across the country: Ellison Research They report that 5 years ago, 5% of churches were using PowerPoint or similar graphics in worship services and today the number is 36%. Lots of other interesting worship statistics there also about music style changes etc.

- NEW CHURCH BASIC VIDEO DESIGN GUIDE COMING! - Is your church thinking about putting in a video projector system or do you know someone who is? We are planning on opening some web pages with lots of tips for churches on how to set up a video projection system. We are still a few weeks from releasing it.

- INTERVIEW WITH GOD - Have you ever seen the "Interview With God" visual? If not, you should. It's a great motion visual to use with your projector. Check them out at: www.TheInterviewWithGod.com

- PREACHER SEARCH - Many of you have downloaded Tom Steed's PowerPoint sermons from this website. Tom has been the preacher for the church I attend for 20 years. I'm sorry to see Tom Steed leave our congregation in Carbondale Illinois but he is moving to a much larger church in Auburn Alabama. We will miss him here but hope that he will keep sending us PowerPoint sermons to share. In the meantime this means that our church is looking for a new preacher. I would sure like to see us get someone interested in PowerPoint! Check us out at: Sycamore Street church of Christ

- TIME LAPSE VIDEO - Looking for an unusual free video for an illustration? Try out this site of free time lapse photography including the building of buildings, claymation and more. www.PlayingWithTime.org

- KIM'S CHILDREN'S SUNDAY SCHOOL UPDATE - Since our last issue, Kim has added new lessons to her Sunday School lessons page including: "Jesus is Crucified" and "Jesus Ascends" located at: Kim's Lessons. She has also added new gameboards for teaching at: Gameboards She has also added these free Bible Trading Cards: "116 Water from a Rock", "117 God's Covenant", "118 Golden Calf", "119 Ten Commandments", "120 Tabernacle", "121 Nadab & Abihu", "122 Twelve Spies" and "123 Korah" These and more are located at: Free Bible Trading Cards

3D SOLOMON'S TEMPLE & TABERNACLE - Here is a great site for a 3D virtual Solomon's Temple and 3D Virtual Tabernacle. You will need to download a viewer to see them but it is well worth it. It is great! Later, we will be releasing our own 3D Tabernacle but it isn't quite ready yet. In the mean time check theirs out at: 3D Bible Project

- NEWSLETTER SPONSOR - Several companies have asked us about sponsoring our newsletter. We have been very picky about who and what we would allow to sponsor and advertise in our website and newsletter. This month's sponsor is NEC in conjunction with House of Projectors announcing a new rebate:
************************************************************************************************************************ NEC's and House Of Projector's Great Rebate Continues!

House of Projectors. Buy selected models of NEC projectors and receive valuable mail-in rebates in addition to House Of Projector's everyday special offers. For example, buy the NEC VT46 for just $879.00 with $100 mail-in rebate, or, the LT660K, regularly $1995.00 for only $1795.00 with $200 mail-in rebate. Add to that HOP's everyday offers of FREE 2-DAY SHIPPING and a FREE movie from BLOCKBUSTER, and you have an offer that's hard to pass up. But you'd better hurry. Offer ends April 31, 2004. For more information: House of Projectors NEC rebate. ************************************************************************************************************************

- SEMINAR - UPDATE: THE SEMINAR CAN'T BE HELD ON MAY 15TH, WE ARE TRYING TO FIND A BETTER DATE. WE WILL ANNOUNCE A NEW DATE WHEN IT IS SETTLED. eBibleTeacher is planning a seminar this Summer and needs an idea of how many eBibleTeacher.com subscribers are interested and what kind of classes to offer. The seminar would be in Carbondale, Illinois located 2 hours from St. Louis, 6 hours from Chicago, 3.5 hours from Nashville and Memphis.
     . We have decided to do a limited, informal program covering PowerPoint in church and Sunday School Teacher's seminar. We anticipate doing the seminar for free, if you stay for lunch you will be asked to contribute for food. We plan to use Terry Taylor and Tom Childers from Freed Hardeman University. We will have some booths set up for eBibleTeacher.com materials and for Freed Hardeman University.
Email us if you are coming so we will know how many to plan for. This is primarily intended to be an informal seminar for churches in Southern Illinois but if you want to drive in and join us then you are welcome to come.. Visit this page for info: Seminar. By the way, several readers asked when we might have seminars in other parts of the country. If you are interested in hosting a seminar at your church, visit: Church Seminars Options

- OTHER SEMINARS A variety of other people do seminars to help churches learn about how to effectively use technology to teach an in worship. Tim Eason of www.churchmedia.net will be speaking in Dallas at the Lumicon seminar on April 29-May 1st. Also speaking are Jason Moore and Len Wilson, founders of Midnight Oil Productions and authors of Digital Storytellers. Find out more at: Lumicon Seminar There is another seminar in Denver Colorado on using Technology in church on May 1st also. Check them out at: Worship & Technology Seminar

- WORSHIP STATISTICS - Ellison Research has a VERY interesting report on research that they have done concerning how worship is changing in churches across the country: Ellison Research They report that 5 years ago, 5% of churches were using PowerPoint or similar graphics in worship services and today the number is 36%. Lots of other interesting worship statistics there also about music style changes etc.

- NEW CHURCH BASIC VIDEO DESIGN GUIDE COMING! - Is your church thinking about putting in a video projector system or do you know someone who is? We are planning on opening some web pages with lots of tips for churches on how to set up a video projection system. We are still a few weeks from releasing it.

- INTERVIEW WITH GOD - Have you ever seen the "Interview With God" visual? If not, you should. It's a great motion visual to use with your projector. Check them out at: www.TheInterviewWithGod.com

- PREACHER SEARCH - Many of you have downloaded Tom Steed's PowerPoint sermons from this website. Tom has been the preacher for the church I attend for 20 years. I'm sorry to see Tom Steed leave our congregation in Carbondale Illinois but he is moving to a much larger church in Auburn Alabama. We will miss him here but hope that he will keep sending us PowerPoint sermons to share. In the meantime this means that our church is looking for a new preacher. I would sure like to see us get someone interested in PowerPoint! Check us out at: Sycamore Street church of Christ

- TIME LAPSE VIDEO - Looking for an unusual free video for an illustration? Try out this site of free time lapse photography including the building of buildings, claymation and more. www.PlayingWithTime.org

- NEW TABERNACLE SECTION - We have opened what we believe is one of the most extensive Tabernacle resources websites on the Internet. LOTS of photos, illustrations, models and more. A great resource for when your Sunday School studies the tabernacle. Check it out at: eBibleTeacher Tabernacle. By the way, we have contracted with Skip Parks to create a new 3D virtual Tabernacle on the Internet. We are looking for Beta testers. You would need to download a 5MB viewer. If you are interested then email me.

- TABERNACLE MODELS FOR SALE - A manufacturer that makes a model Tabernacle kit for churches and families saw our Tabernacle web site and asked us to sell their model. We tried making one and liked it a lot. This is a great project for a Sunday School class or family. Build one and give it to your church as a teaching tool. Check out what our model looks like at: Tabernacle Model.

- KIM'S CHILDREN'S SUNDAY SCHOOL UPDATE - Since our last issue, Kim has added new lessons to her Sunday School lessons page including: "God Sends Plagues on Egypt" located at: Kim's Lessons and new sound files to help kids and teachers learn children's songs at: Kid's Songs She has also added these free Bible Trading Cards: "Gabriel", "116 Water from a Rock", "117 God's Covenant", "118 Golden Calf", "119 Ten Commandments", "120 Tabernacle", "121 Nadab & Abihu", "122 Twelve Spies" and "123 Korah" These and more are located at: Free Bible Trading Cards Fellow teacher Tom Cook created his own Gabriel card and shares it with us in MS Word format. He also shares his method of creating his own custom sets of cards to avoid printing cards he doesn't need.

- NEWSLETTER SPONSOR - Several companies have asked us about sponsoring our newsletter. We have been very picky about who and what we would allow to sponsor and advertise in our website and newsletter. This month's sponsor is NEC in conjunction with House of Projectors announcing a new rebate:
************************************************************************************************************************ NEC's and House Of Projector's Great Rebate House of Projectors. Buy selected models of NEC projectors and receive valuable mail-in rebates in addition to House Of Projector's everyday special offers. For example, buy the NEC VT46 for just $889.00 with $100 mail-in rebate, Or, the LT240K, regularly $2695.00 for only $2495.00 with $200 mail-in rebate. Add to that HOP's everyday offers of FREE 2-DAY SHIPPING and a FREE movie from BLOCKBUSTER, and you have an offer that's hard to pass up. But you'd better hurry. Offer ends March 31, 2004. Click here for more information: House of Projectors NEC rebate. ************************************************************************************************************************

- SEMINAR - UPDATE: THE SEMINAR CAN'T BE HELD ON MAY 15TH, WE ARE TRYING TO FIND A BETTER DATE. WE WILL ANNOUNCE A NEW DATE WHEN IT IS SETTLED. eBibleTeacher is planning a seminar this Spring and needs an idea of how many eBibleTeacher.com subscribers are interested and what kind of classes to offer. The seminar would be in Carbondale, Illinois located 2 hours from St. Louis, 6 hours from Chicago, 3.5 hours from Nashville and Memphis.
     . We have decided to do a limited, informal program covering PowerPoint in church and Sunday School Teacher's seminar. We anticipate doing the seminar for free, if you stay for lunch you will be asked to contribute for food. We plan to use Terry Taylor and Tom Childers from Freed Hardeman University. We will have some booths set up for eBibleTeacher.com materials and for Freed Hardeman University.
Email us if you are coming so we will know how many to plan for. This is primarily intended to be an informal seminar for churches in Southern Illinois but if you want to drive in and join us then you are welcome to come.. Visit this page for info: Seminar. By the way, several readers asked when we might have seminars in other parts of the country. If you are interested in hosting a seminar at your church, visit: Church Seminars Options

- MORE ONLINE VIDEO RESOURCES - We are always on the look for new resources of interest to churches. Here is a site called "Footage Shack" with lots of looping videos that your church might be interested to use as backgrounds: www.FootageShack.com They have a variety of moving water footage along with fire, ocean waves, falling leaves, etc. You can try out a free water sample.

- NEW CHURCH BASIC VIDEO DESIGN GUIDE COMING! - Is your church thinking about putting in a video projector system or do you know someone who is? We are planning on opening some web pages with lots of tips for churches on how to set up a video projection system. We are still a few weeks from releasing it.

- KIM'S CHILDREN'S SUNDAY SCHOOL UPDATE - Since our last issue, Kim has added new lessons to her Sunday School lessons page including: "Joseph's Brothers go to Egypt", "Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dreams", "Joseph Interprets the Butler's and Baker's Dreams", "Joseph's Coat", "Moses and the Burning Bush" and "Moses leaves Egypt ". These and more are located at: Kim's Lessons She has also added these free Bible Trading Cards: "Pharaoh", "Plagues", "Red Sea" and "Manna" These and more are located at: Free Bible Trading Cards New Gameboards for Review Questions called "Joseph Gameboard" and "Moses Gameboard" are now on the site.

- SEMINAR - eBibleTeacher is planning a seminar this Spring and needs an idea of how many eBibleTeacher.com subscribers are interested and what kind of classes to offer. The seminar would be in Carbondale, Illinois located 2 hours from St. Louis, 6 hours from Chicago, 3.5 hours from Nashville and Memphis.
     If you are interested please email us with the best date for you, April 17 or May 15 and subjects of interest: PowerPoint in church, Website design, Sunday School Teacher's seminar. Would you like for us to keep price to $10 or less (includes lunch) using local speakers Tom Steed and Terry Taylor as trainers or pay $35 or so each and spend money to bring in outside speakers?
     If we get a lot of response we will put on a more elaborate seminar. If there is not a lot of interest we will just put on a simple seminar for local folks. Email us with your wishes.

- WORSHIP SOFTWARE NEWS - We have updated our worship software review section. Easyworship has announced an new update http://www.EasyWorship.com/. The new version features a lot of features for handling video including text over motion video, interface with PowerPoint 2003 and support for SongSelect's 60,000 optional songs.
      With the two new worship software packages we have added this month we now list nearly 35 products. The new software is FlexImage www.FlexImage.co.uk/ a PowerPoint based song lyric display program and Paraclete www.HollandSoftware.com/Paraclete.htm another new worship software product that is especially strong in it's database features. Check them and more out at our: Review Worship Software Page

- TEEN POWERPOINT AND MORE - Probably one of the most talented lesson writers for teens I have come across is Jeremy Walden. Jeremy has started a new company of electronic literature and lessons specifically targeted toward those that teach youth and teens. He is also looking for talented writers with similar interests. Check out his PowerPoint based lessons and new site at: http://www.nextgenpublishing.com

- NEW SMALL CHURCH VIDEO DESIGN GUIDE COMING! - Is your church thinking about putting in a video projector system or do you know someone who is? We are planning on opening some web pages with lots of tips for small churches on how to set up a video projection system. We hope that we can release it in our next newsletter.