Author Archives: Dennis Peay

InSync: A DropBox for Google Docs

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Dennis Peay

Google Docs is a powerful and wonderful tool for sharing, collaborating, and publishing myriad files among friends, teams, and groups. Google Docs has so many pluses that I was thrilled to hear about InSync, a desktop application for syncing files and … Continue reading →

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Mass Emailing

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Dennis Peay

With the continuing increase in postage, paper mail is becoming less and less an option for churches to send mass mail such as newsletters and neighorhood invitations. One alternative is mass emailing with web products like MailChimp, iContact, or Constant … Continue reading →

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Google Calendars on your iOS Device

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Dennis Peay

Google and Apple seem to have a love-hate relationship. Users of both seem to find the good points of both; yet, the executives of the two companies don’t always allow their product offerings easy cohabitation. In the last year Apple … Continue reading →

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Free, Good Graphics

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Dennis Peay

Visual worship tools are aplenty. Google searches will give you a plethora of results. One of my favorite sites is Imagebank (http://www.imagebank.org.uk). This site from across the pond was initially recommended by umcworship.org. The site is free to tour and you can … Continue reading →

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Paperless Preaching

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Dennis Peay

The era of tablet computing offers communicators the ability to speak and preach without printing paper! As an iPad user I find preaching and teaching from the tablet cleaner and easier than dealing with a stack of papers. There are a … Continue reading →

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Need a Form? Google It!

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Dennis Peay

Registration. Surveys. Multiple Responses. If you have ever mailed out a form you know that collecting the responses is costly and time consuming. Recently, I transitioned our Conference Youth Ministry to using Google forms for staff invitation responses and event … Continue reading →

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Using an iPad PRODUCTIVELY

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Dennis Peay

Recently one of my pastoral collegues and friends called with a great interest in buying an iPad. After a good conversation he (his wife) purchased one for his birthday. I then saw him last week and he was thrilled playing … Continue reading →

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Media in Worship

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Dennis Peay

During 15 years of ministry media in worship has been there … well, 15 years. At a very base level there has been a printed bulletin with notes, announcements, some order of worship; there has been song material in some … Continue reading →

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Social Witnessing

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Dennis Peay

“You shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”     Acts 1:8 When Jesus commissioned his disciples for sharing their witness of his teaching, resurrection, and life changing way of living He … Continue reading →

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