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Luke on Hiatus for New Projects
Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 at 12:36 PM by Jason Barker
The Department of Youth Ministry decided this weekend to put The Journey: An Interactive Study of the Gospel According to St. Luke on hiatus until sometime next year. While progress was occurring on the project, the fact that the 2007 Bible Bowl competitions have now started means that far fewer of the teens in the Antiochian Archdiocese will be looking at the study in the near future. We therefore decided to put Luke on hiatus for the rest of the year while I work on two exciting new projects.
The first new project is another interactive Bible study application - Life Together: An Interactive Study of the First Epistle to the Corinthians. This study will launch in November, and therefore will be the first of my studies to be available for study groups to use in the winter and spring before the Bible Bowl competitions. In addition to the wide array of articles, graphics, and handouts for which my Bible studies are known, Life Together will contain new audio and video elements. Furthermore, with Life Together the Youth Department will launch a new program for Orthodox study groups: for a small (and yet to be determined) donation, I will email on a weekly schedule personalized copies of our full-color handouts to each teen in participating parishes. In addition to the personalized handouts, the weekly emails will contain a short summary of the material in that chapter of 1 Corinthians, and will encourage the teen to participate in your parish's study group and/or youth activities. This program will be available for parishes in all Orthodox jurisdictions.
The second new project in which I will engage will be a new radio program for an Orthodox Christian media ministry. This program will be part of an exciting new partnership between this Orthodox ministry and the Department of Youth Ministry (I am currently not naming the ministry because a formal announcement of the partnership has not been made). In addition to partnering on Life Together and future interactive studies, I will create a radio program - to launch in September - focused on teen Bible study (this will be the first Orthodox radio program created specifically for teen listeners). As an additional resource, each episode of the radio program will also have available a handout that listeners can download to participate in the study.
This summer will therefore be spent beginning work on these two new projects. To keep up-to-date on these projects, as well as learning more about both our partnership with the Orthodox media ministry and the upcoming program for emailing personalized handouts on 1 Corinthians, you can subscribe to this blog by either bookmarking our RSS feed or signing up for the email version by entering your email address in the "Subscribe by Email" box in the right sidebar of the blog's homepage.
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