Fresh Out of the Box Volume One: Digital Worship Experiences from Palm Sunday Through Pentecost Sunday

by Len Wilson, Jason Moore

The Fresh Out of the Box Series is for Digital Storytellers!

Each volume in the series offers multisensory media for highly relevant worship experiences for the digital age. Volume one in part covers weekend celebrations in the Christian year, including Palm Sunday, Pentecost Sunday, and Christ the King Sunday. You will find 10 suggested worship celebrations, including a dominant metaphor, three customizable background images for your presentation software, commentary on the Scripture text, music suggestions, film clip suggestions, and six professionally mastered video or animation clips for projection (which can be cued and played directly from the enclosed DVD. Each of the elements is integrated by a root metaphor. Here are the ten metaphorical themes in volume 1: The Real Deal, Future Proof, Wilderness Guide, Moving In, Victory, Don't Hold On To Me, A Breath of Fresh Air, Good to Go?, C.E.O. of the Cosmos, and The Difference a Day Makes.

Can I play a DVD on My Computer, Projector, or TV?

Yes, you can operate the DVD from an inexpensive stand-alone DVD Player that is hooked to a TV or Projector in your sanctuary. For the computer, in addition to a DVD-ROM drive you must have either a) extra hardware to decode MPEG-2 video and Dolby Digital or MPEG-2 audio, or b) your computer must be fast enough to handle software decoding. Good-quality software-only playback requires a 350-MHz Pentium II or a Mac G4. Click here for an exhaustive list of commonly asked questions and answers about DVD. Three graphics files for each worship experience can also be found in a separate folder on the DVD-ROM disk. These files, of course, are only accessible from a computer and not from a stand-alone DVD player.

80 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

About the author

Len Wilson is an author, speaker, and advocate for creativity in faith and life. He is known for his pioneering work in visual storytelling for churches and has consulted with organizations and ministries across the country. Len is the author or co-author of ten books, has been featured in dozens of articles for major religious periodicals, and has acquired leadership books for Abingdon Press, a division of the United Methodist Publishing House. He currently serves as Creative Director at Peachtree in Atlanta, one of the largest Presbyterian congregations in the country. Follow Len at lenwilson.us or on Twitter at @Len_Wilson. His latest book, Think Like a Five Year Old, releases June, 2015.