Jarrod Davis (Center UMC) joins the podcast to discuss community gardens, cooking, and the importance and good habits of creation care.
Announcements
Hurricane Anniversary Video
Over the past three years, North Carolina has been impacted by three devastating hurricanes. Many homes and lives were uprooted due to wind and flood damage. With the help of our partners and volunteers, Disaster Ministries has been able to help over 600 people return home.
Watch this anniversary video and see the impact Disaster Ministries is making in the affected areas. Play it in your church services, and share it with your friends. Download the video from our Vimeo page.
Together, we can help rebuild homes, communities, and lives.
The Other Days Of The Week – Episode 11: Punk & Podcasting w/ Adam Baker
Adam Baker (Pastor, Wesley Memorial UMC) comes in to talk about illustrating, punk music, and the art of hosting a podcast.
The Other Days Of The Week – Episode 10: Lego Club w/ Gayle Tabor
Gayle Tabor (St. Paul’s UMC) calls in from Wilmington to discuss Britt’s Donuts, Church on Tap, and Wednesday night Lego Club for kids.
Digitizing Your Church Records
What is digitization? The conversion of traditional records into digital or electronic form. When referring to digitization of church records, the main group of documents are the historic records of the church. This covers paper records such as correspondence, committee reports, and photographs. Another important group are new ones being received at the current time. These would be fewer in number because most documents now are created and circulated electronically via email and the like.
Why Digitize? There are many reasons for digitizing your records. One is to preserve them better, especially when they have already becoming fragile from old age. Traditional records are already in danger of being lost because of their age, the difficulties of storage, or lack of proper care. Another reason for digitizing your records is space saving – which is limited in many churches. Digital records are also easily shared, and they can be copied, printed, and displayed with ease. They can also be integrated into many church’s current administration system where much is already digital. One of the best reasons for digitizing is ease of locating information. This is the case with printed material which can be turned into editable and searchable electronic files. Unfortunately, hand-written documents cannot yet be easily turned into editable and searchable documents – probably many of the older records of your church fall into this category. However, they can, at least, be viewed electronically, and stored with the rest of your church’s electronic documents.
How can your Conference Archive help? It is a big undertaking to digitize your church’s entire collection of historical records, so it needs to be planned and managed well. It needs good IT support and archival expertise to achieve a satisfactory outcome. The North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church Commission on Archives and History offers to facilitate the digitization of your historical records. We are willing to help you choose which records should be digitized and we are willing to do the work of digitizing the records for you. After digitizing the records, we will return the originals and a digitized copy of the records to you. We will also house a copy of your digitized records in the Conference Archives.
If you are interested in preserving your church’s historically significant records, please contact either:
Commission Chair – Douglas Jonas at (919)771-6882 or dcjonas2000@gmail.com
Commission Archivist – Rev. Dennis Lamm at (252)521-1452 or lammbo@nccumc.org
The Other Days Of The Week – Episode 9: Motorcycle Adventures w/ Tom Newman
Tom Newman (Pastor, Asbury UMC) and Amie discuss movie-inspired sermons, motorcycle rides, and sabbath day meals.