- 6:48 PM henryjz - great worship set by branden… i’ll get his full name and link later
- 6:48 PM henryjz - amy is up welcoming everyone to conspire
- 6:48 PM henryjz - what an amazing encourager!!
- 6:49 PM henryjz - btw, sitting next to Larry Shallenberger…
- 6:49 PM henryjz - “see youself as the expert… the number one pick… at your church”
- 6:51 PM henryjz - we need those of you at Conspire to check out the conspire blog and contribute your expertise to the conversation
- 6:53 PM henryjz - going to play “Are You Smarter Than a CM Director”
- 6:56 PM henryjz - ok… here are the questions…
- 6:56 PM henryjz - win 2 free registrations to Lead Conference is all 5 questions answered correctly
- 6:58 PM henryjz - get 2 cheats
- 6:58 PM henryjz - ok… now the questions
- 6:58 PM henryjz - “which nick cartoon has english and spanish speaker girl”
- 6:59 PM henryjz - spongebob, dora, icarly or woody el pajaro loco?
- 6:59 PM henryjz - and the answer… b??
- 6:59 PM henryjz - correct!
- 6:59 PM henryjz - first prize is CD pack.. ooo
- 7:00 PM henryjz - 2nd question… toy story, nemo, cars, and wall -e done by?
- 7:00 PM henryjz - wb, dreamworks, pixar, or wca conspire animation co.
- 7:00 PM henryjz - ha!
- 7:00 PM henryjz - going for the cheat
- 7:00 PM henryjz - and they want C
- 7:01 PM henryjz - contestant going with the CM directors… “I always go with the CM director.”
- 7:01 PM henryjz - question 3
- 7:01 PM henryjz - between june 2007 – 2008 was?
- 7:02 PM henryjz - miley cyrus, zac efron, olson twins or jonas bros
- 7:02 PM henryjz - she’s going on her own
- 7:02 PM henryjz - a. miley???
- 7:02 PM henryjz - it’s correct
- 7:02 PM henryjz - prize is leadership dvd
- 7:03 PM henryjz - question 4… getting harder
- 7:03 PM henryjz - and the contestant burns the host!!! “I work with 2 year olds”
- 7:03 PM henryjz - 2008 best selling game for wii?
- 7:04 PM henryjz - super smash bros, mario kart, grand theft auto 4, or wii play
- 7:04 PM henryjz - she’s going on her own
- 7:04 PM henryjz - b. mario kart wii???
- 7:04 PM henryjz - final answer?
- 7:04 PM henryjz - she’s sticking with it
- 7:04 PM henryjz - it’s a!!!
- 7:05 PM henryjz - oh!!!!
- 7:05 PM henryjz - the helpers didn’t get it right either
- 7:05 PM henryjz - oh well
- 7:05 PM henryjz - question 5…
- 7:05 PM henryjz - as of 2007, which children’s book sold most copies
- 7:06 PM henryjz - poky little puppy, hary potter book 1, green eggs and ham, charlotte’s web
- 7:06 PM henryjz - going with the copy cheat!
- 7:06 PM henryjz - copying from dan
- 7:07 PM henryjz - he put jn 3:16… doh!
- 7:07 PM henryjz - he says b…
- 7:07 PM henryjz - it is b!!!
- 7:08 PM henryjz - amy coming back up
- 7:08 PM henryjz - introducing phil vischer
- 7:10 PM henryjz - waching a video done by phil vischer
- 7:12 PM henryjz - phil is interrupting the video puppet… too funny
- 7:13 PM henryjz - phil walking us through the “state of media” and what to do with it
- 7:13 PM henryjz - “TV developed in lat 30′s”
- 7:13 PM henryjz - 1960 – 87% had TV
- 7:14 PM henryjz - today more households have TV than fridges or indoor plumbing!
- 7:15 PM henryjz - today – 63% households have high speed internet
- 7:15 PM henryjz - today 8-18 year olds have lots of electronics… too fast to write it down
- 7:15 PM henryjz - 2 our of 3 kids have tvs in their bedrooms (8-18 year old)
- 7:15 PM henryjz - 1 out of 3 0-6 kids have tv in bedroom
- 7:16 PM henryjz - 1 out of 5 under 1 have tv in their bedroom!
- 7:16 PM henryjz - “most of kids have access to most forms of electronic media most of the time”
- 7:17 PM henryjz - from Larry Shallengberger… Phil is quoting from Kaiser Insitute Study
- 7:17 PM henryjz - TV viewing is not in decline but added to because of all the electronic media
- 7:18 PM henryjz - households with kids are coopting this faster than house with no kids
- 7:18 PM henryjz - 8 hrs per day of media content at 8-12 years old
- 7:19 PM henryjz - 8-18 year olds… 20% are in house when tv on during meals, on virually all the time with no one watching and no restriction by parents
- 7:20 PM henryjz - media consumption is only outstripeed by sleep with kids
- 7:20 PM henryjz - tv gone from “family programming” to “kid programming”
- 7:20 PM henryjz - Disney doing more kids movies because it is more profitable
- 7:21 PM henryjz - “good thing and not so good thing”
- 7:21 PM henryjz - good thing… kids spend less time watching adult themed tv shows
- 7:23 PM henryjz - downside… less motivation to create family-friendly programming anywhere else (so mainstream tv is more vulgar) because nick and cartoon network and disney doing it all
- 7:23 PM henryjz - major networks are suffering because of it “HBO envy”
- 7:24 PM henryjz - networks want to be like HBO because HBO is winning the awards.. so you get shows like Desperate Housewives, et al.
- 7:25 PM henryjz - how does this affect kids?
- 7:25 PM henryjz - kids don’t want to be kids anymore
- 7:26 PM henryjz - Phil’s grade 8 son saying he is only one who can’t watch South Park or Family Guy
- 7:26 PM henryjz - by segregating kids into their own little world, once decide too old, then their is nothing in the middle
- 7:27 PM henryjz - go from Hannah Montanna to South Park
- 7:27 PM henryjz - “we are compressing childhood”
- 7:27 PM henryjz - childhood getting younger and younger… what happens when kids are done with Dora
- 7:28 PM henryjz - “we’re losing the sense of what adulthood is”
- 7:28 PM henryjz - take a look at primetime programming…
- 7:28 PM henryjz - 30 years was Brady Bunch… what were adults like there
- 7:28 PM henryjz - 80′s you had Seinfeld.. what were the adults like there?
- 7:29 PM henryjz - 90′s you have Friends…
- 7:30 PM henryjz - we are idealizing a “Spring Break mentality”… time between leaving parents and assuming responsibility of adulthood
- 7:30 PM henryjz - next issue… “compartmentalization”
- 7:31 PM henryjz - they go to church and get god, then go home and watch tv with no reference of god
- 7:32 PM henryjz - God exists on Sunday, and the rest of the week he is gone
- 7:32 PM henryjz - they spend more time in front of screens where world is free of God
- 7:32 PM henryjz - spiritual and secular get compartmentalized
- 7:33 PM henryjz - next issue… “advancing a new religion through media of FUN”
- 7:33 PM henryjz - everything is about “fun”
- 7:33 PM henryjz - example of phil driving by a restaurant, “Come in and have fun!” what about food???
- 7:34 PM henryjz - “Theology of Fun”
- 7:34 PM henryjz - fun appears 0 times in ESV and 1 time in NIV
- 7:35 PM henryjz - A theology of fun is extra-biblical
- 7:37 PM henryjz - enertainment is like feeding kids marshmallow peeps… it’s all fun and no substance
- 7:37 PM henryjz - “You can’t abandon something you were never in”
- 7:37 PM henryjz - Phil’s quote in response to people complaining about Christians abandoning the media
- 7:38 PM henryjz - Entertainment was all about vaudeville, burlesque, etc. so Christians stayed away at the beginning
- 7:38 PM henryjz - “We’re not very funny” so we didn’t do entertainment
- 7:39 PM henryjz - “There’s this little monk… nail, nail, nail… woo, the Reformation” Phil’s summary of the birth of Protestantism
- 7:39 PM henryjz - “We’re not funny people.”
- 7:40 PM henryjz - There are funny British people… they didn’t come over… who came over?? the Puritans!
- 7:41 PM henryjz - We’re not funny people (American Christians).
- 7:41 PM henryjz - Today, we’re still not in it but also not standing apart from it… We are simply consuming.
- 7:42 PM henryjz - Our kids are overrun, then, with media content, and we aren’t influencing it
- 7:42 PM henryjz - What about Christian TV? haha
- 7:42 PM henryjz - Christian TV find roots in Christian radio, which found roots in the pulpit
- 7:43 PM henryjz - “Pulpit amplification systems”
- 7:43 PM henryjz - TV is primary form of distraction not education
- 7:44 PM henryjz - VeggieTales for example comes from Christian music, which comes from Christian books, which is more entertainment driven
- 7:44 PM henryjz - 1999 Christian entertainment peaked and in decline because Christian bookstores are going out of business, which was the model for distribution
- 7:44 PM henryjz - so what now?
- 7:45 PM henryjz - watching a video of what Phil is doing
- 7:48 PM henryjz - taking a look at www.jellytelly.com
- 7:49 PM henryjz - jellybits.com you can buy shorts
- 7:50 PM henryjz - opening a format for college kids in film to put out their stuff in short format
- 7:50 PM henryjz - what about us as children’s ministry workers?
- 7:50 PM henryjz - should we have media, then?
- 7:50 PM henryjz - phil won’t jump into that
- 7:50 PM henryjz - smart man
- 7:51 PM henryjz - will say that if content is good, then it will teach… if not, then no
- 7:51 PM henryjz - same goes with live teacher or video
- 7:51 PM henryjz - “most effective teaching device in your class is you”
- 7:51 PM henryjz - you can do one thing media can’t do, which is love kids
- 7:52 PM henryjz - we need to help parents wade through this media because they don’t have the resources they need
- 7:53 PM henryjz - phil is going to put this stuff together in dvd to be able to use
- 7:53 PM henryjz - philvischer.com and jellytelly.com
- 7:54 PM henryjz - now to worship and break… see you for session 2!!!
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