Crumpled Notebook

Interesting musical/play about a Salvationist known as “Joe
the Turk”. Check it out…it’s about an hour long.

I was very disheartened to hear that Unsite.org had to be taken offline. While I understand that anyone doing something that represents The Salvation Army should be monitored (and I support that idea as well), I hope the National Headquarters looks hard at the positive aspects and value of this site.

I give my whole-hearted support for the mission and purpose of Unsite.org–as a Salvation Army employee, a Salvationist, a volunteer, a supporter and a child of God. I was very disheartened to learn of it being taken down as I found it to be a very useful tool for my work at The Salvation Army, for both social services and ministry related aspects. Most of the clip art and graphics available to us from the Corps or from The Salvation Army is either non-existent or difficult to access, or people just don’t know about them! On top of that, they tend to be outdated, poor quality, or non-unique for the most part. I know the Red Shield Toolkit provides some high quality material, but unless you work for The Salvation Army, you don’t have access to these and they are difficult to get to. If you happen to just be a church member or church volunteer ( i.e. Sunday School teacher) the Red Shield Toolkit wouldn’t be accessible to you and it doesn’t provide much, if any, ministry related graphics or resources.

Unsite is a good collection of FREE, fresh, new and high quality resouces that is available to Salvationist worldwide. They stay true to the mission of the Salvation Army–a mission to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to all. It was always nice and encouraging to see what other Salvationist in the world were working on and how they were ministering to their communities. Not only did it provide material to use, but it also helped to generate ideas for new materials and resources that could be shared with others. I never feared that anything I wanted to submit or use would be sold or used for malicious purposes. It was always nice to have the website handy to find a Call to Worship, a game to play with the youth, or helpful graphics such as poster for a Food Drive. Resources that most people don’t have either the software or know-to to create on their own.

These resources have helped me personally with organizing a campus food drive with student volunteers by providing information and posters. They have given me simple logos or graphics for brochures, fliers, powerpoint presentations and videos used to promote the work of The Salvation Army and recruit volunteers for all of our programs. The site has given me scriptural resources and relevant games to use during the Sunday School class that I teach.

I have been using Unsite.org since it first came online and have found it to be an INVALUABLE resource for MY work and ministry at The Salvation Army and it has helped me connect with other Salvationist through using the site. I would encourage the decision-makers to reconsider the value of this site and to find some way to keep these simple and easy resources available to Salvationist world-wide!

One of the Aggressive Christianity speakers. Probably the most
dynamic speaker we had.

My latest Jamglue mix and
response to the elections. election projection by mfelkins

So I was messing around with a new computer program I got
recently (iMake Sheet Music–which by the way, I’m not all that
impressed with). Anyway, just start clicking random notes on the
staff, came up with this. But, since I use "http://jamglue.com">JamGlue, maybe I can do something with it,
or someone more creative than me. You should check it out.
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