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Don’t Waste Your Life Bumper

AJWired — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:53:15 +0000

Here’s a bumper we shot and edited for a series this past spring called Don’t Waste Your Life. The series was a focus on the Gospel and was centered in Isaiah 6. We shot it in an abandoned factory here in Aiken. Good times.

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Easter Story 3

AJWired — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:32:48 +0000

This is the Smart’s brief story of how God stepped in and gave them a new direction. The Smarts are a part of Cedar Creek On the Ridge Campus. Phillip used this video during his message to help illustrate how Easter means that we have a new purpose in life. If you didn’t get a chance to see the other two stories, you can find them here and here.

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Easter Story 2

AJWired — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:52:35 +0000

This is Michelle’s story. If you missed the first story, then you can view it here. We used this at the end of the Phillip’s message right before he presented the gospel.

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Easter Story 1

AJWired — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:24:28 +0000

This Easter at Cedar Creek we decided that one of the most effective ways to tell the story of Easter is to let people who have had their lives radically changed by Jesus tell their story. So we asked some Cedar Creek people to share their stories. You can watch the message in its entirety with the videos here. One of the things I thought was great was that all 3 campuses were represented. I’m going to post the stories over the next few days.

This is James’ story. Phillip was talking about how Easter means that our past can be forgiven and used this video to help illustrate that.

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12 years ago today…

AJWired — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:35:56 +0000

..I was introduced as the new student pastor at Cedar Creek Church. Been quite a ride. Still am incredibly thankful to Richard Swift for taking a chance on this punk kid . Some interesting changes at CCC (and in me) have occurred along the way:

Then: When I first arrived, we were still meeting in a day care and were averaging close to 400 people and had two services. Our offices were in downtown Aiken in the old post office. The only staff at that time was Richard (Lead Pastor), Kay (Secretary), Travis (Small Groups Pastor), and me as student pastor.

Now: We’re averaging close to 3,000 people across 3 campuses and a total of 5 worship experiences. I think our staff is around 30 and we’re trying to find places for staff offices.

Then: I was coming in to my second student ministry position and was still learning the ministry ropes.

Now: In 2004, God shifted the focus of my ministry and I began leading our visual media and production at Cedar Creek….and I’m still learning the ministry ropes.

Then: Kim was pregnant with our first child Hannah.

Now: We have two kids, Hannah and Spencer. Hannah is in middle school. That is still a scary thought. After doing student ministry for that long and being able to remember my middle and high school days, it helps to keep my prayer life focused.

From what I know, I think 12 years is a probably above average in one church considering most people in ministry tend to move around more often than that. Have no clue what the journey has ahead, but if you would have told me I would be where I am at 12 years ago, I probably would have laughed.

Rescue Me Bumper

AJWired — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:26:59 +0000

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Bumper for stand alone message at Cedar Creek West Campus 12.27.09

Production Notes: Shot in a locker room with a Panasonic DVX100. Literally the morning of the shoot, we asked for volunteers at the West Campus just to very briefly (in a few words) tell their story. Audio was sketchy as I was getting some major interference on the wireless mics. Treated with Magic Bullet Looks Suite in Final Cut Pro and message graphic/motion at the end created in After Effects.

Be The Church Photo Montage

AJWired — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:44:18 +0000

Here’s the photo/video montage that we showed this morning at the Banks Mill and West Campuses. It was a part of the Be The Church celebrations.

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Be The Church Bless Back

AJWired — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:54:16 +0000

Today we did something at Cedar Creek that we have never done before. As a part of our Be The Church series, we gave away a total of $50,000 across our three campuses. As people walked in to each of our worship experiences, they were given a sealed envelope. Inside each envelope were various amounts: $5, $20, $50, and $100.

Phillip taught on how we are blessed by God to be a blessing to others. It doesn’t take a huge amount of time, money or resources to bless someone. In fact, the focus of today’s message was to begin with the “little things”.

Here are the only stipulations on how the money is to be used: 1. Don’t bless yourself. Use it to help someone outside of your immediate family and 2. Don’t put the money back in the offering basket.

Kim and I have been talking about some ideas of how we’re going to bless back someone. Looking forward to see the ripple effect in our community. If you go to Cedar Creek and want to share your story about how you used the money to help someone, you can do so here.

ccc baptism video

AJWired — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:10:50 +0000

This summer we broke up our baptisms into three different times. This was intentional in the hopes of making it less of a baptismal service and more of a baptism party. I had planned to get some interviews with some of the baptizees before but was having some mic issues. Next time. Just never gets old seeing people going public with their faith. Teared up seeing all of them, but I about lost it when I saw Logan being baptized. His baptism is at about 1:05. You can watch some of Logan’s story on an earlier video on the blog. The guy helping Phillip baptize is the “Mr. Chuck” from that earlier video. Good times.

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Prentice Story Video

AJWired — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:47:31 +0000

This morning Phillip concluded his message with a video about the Prentice family. This was a video that I shot last Sunday afternoon and edited this week. Going into the video, we thought it was going to be primarily a video to promote Grace Kidz, the special needs ministry at Cedar Creek Church. However, like what happens much of the time, the video ended up telling a bigger story.

We wrapped up our vision series this week and this video ended up painting a picture of what it looks like when the body of is working toward the same result and the church is fulfilling its vision. Christian was invited by a friend in our student ministry. Jamie and Logan ended up getting plugged in to our special needs ministry in several areas. That’s not to mention all the other areas (care ministry, home groups, greeters, worship, media, etc.) that all played a part in helping them to feel welcome but also communicating God’s grace. Now, they’re investing in people’s lives, too.

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