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Mike Harland and the new Twila Paris CD
As a part of my job at LifeWay, I get to work with placing our media on iTunes.  Typically, I'm a bit at the back end of the process, loading things up once production on a disk is finished (this is going to change, soon).  Back in December I got a frantic call about needing an ISRC code for the new Twila Paris CD that LifeWay was putting out.
Curious about such a large project for us, I began to ask around about who I could talk to about the album.  Ended up that the best person for the job was Mike Harland - the director of LifeWay Worship.  So not only was this the first time I've done a video interview with a director, it was the first time I did one with someone I had never met before.

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LifeWay Conversations, life of linne, lifeway, music, videoAaron Linnemike harland, twila paris Comment
Jason Hayes and Connect Conferences
Jason Hayes is the Young Adult specialist at LifeWay. He came on board about a year ago or so, and has been a great addition to the team. He gets to build relationships with churches across the country, helping them understand the needs and culture of young adults, as well as learning from churches that are having positive young adult ministries.
In this video conversation, Jason talks about the upcoming Connect conferences. The conferences will be limited to 75 participants and be regional, hoping to get church leaders from nearby areas to come together and share their young adult ministry knowledge.

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LifeWay Conversations, videoAaron Linnejason hayesComment
Michael Kelley and the Tough Sayings of Jesus
Michael Kelley is an editor for the Threads team's (undated) Bible study products.  Before he began to work for LifeWay full-time, he wrote a study for us called "Tough Sayings of Jesus," which spotlighted four times in the Bible where Jesus doesn't seem to be quite as nice as we might normally think (from the Tough Saying webpage: the rich young ruler in Mark 10, the Canaanite woman in Matt. 15, the unforgivable sin in Matt. 12, and a contradiction about who Jesus is in Matt. 10 and Luke 12).Threads is getting ready to launch volume two of the study, so I sat down with Kelley for a bit to talk about his job here at LifeWay, and some of the concepts behind these studies.[kyte.tv appKey=MarbachViewerEmbedded&uri=channels/30228/90177&embedId=10039540&locale=en]
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LifeWay Conversations, tough sayings of jesus, videoAaron Linnemichael kelleyComment
Patrick Watts and LifeWay Worship
Patrick Watts is one of the more forward-thinking people here at LifeWay.  Since I've known him he's always been open to exploring new ideas and is willing to have hard conversations about what the future of worship and music might be like in our churches.  Patrick is getting to head up one of the more high profile initiatives here at LifeWay, our LifeWay Worship project.

This project is big news for us, as it is a part of the new Baptist Hymnal.  The worship project is bringing in more new, contemporary songs to the hymnal, and bringing in a huge amount of talent to record over 1,000 songs.  When the LifeWay Worship project launches, users will be able to go online and purchase the recorded audio and matching pieces (video elements, sheet music, etc); worship leaders with a keen ear will even be able to manipulate the songs to customize them to the needs of their worship service. The Worship Project is one of the most technologically advanced initiatives that we have done here at LifeWay, and is truly breaking new ground in the way that worship leaders will be able to plan heir services and get the musicians and choirs ready for Sunday gatherings.

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Chandra Bennett and YOU
I first met Chandra when I was working with LifeWay's Customer Service tool, RightNow.  I had to train her on how to use the system as she was taking over the responsibilities for LifeWay's Extra, an online help for our Sunday School lessons.  My wife got to work with her extensively during the quarters she wrote for Extra, as Chandra was her editor.

Chandra is the editor for LifeWay's new YOU curriculum, a part of our new African-American initiative.  I wanted to interview her because I'm quite excited that LifeWay is reaching out from our traditional material style and trying to be more multi-cultural with our products.  The YOU curriculum is still a ways off (Fall of 2008), but Chandra already had some proofs she was able to show off.  I'm really excited to see what comes out of this team, and how they pave the way for us to be more relevant to other ethnicities.

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John Garner and RecLab
One of the first people that I got to really develop a relationship with here at LifeWay, outside of he Fuge employees, was John Garner.  John had me come out to the Rec Lab event three years in a row to help create and run the media and sound.  It was quite the trip, with Andy Woods joining me in 2004 and Andy and Kevin Spratt in 2005.  In 2005 I almost died... have I told that story on here yet?Anyhow, John Garner is one of my favorite ministry people because he is so undeniably full of passion for God and life.  There is no question that he believes in he ministry potential for games, team-building, and fun.  I may not be able to connect with hunting or basketball... but talking to John and hearing his story and passion almost made me want to go to Rec Lab again, just to see him get excited.  John is one of the most genuine souls I know, and  it was an honor and fun to get to sit down with him for our little conversation.[kyte.tv appKey=MarbachViewerEmbedded&uri=channels/30228/85592&embedId=10039539&locale=en]
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Craig Webb and LifeWay.com/pastor
One of my first days here in the new office, my friend Craig Webb called me into his office to help with a power point presentation he was posting online.  I was confused as to what he was doing and what the actual intent was... and I found out that we apparently offer a bunch of free sermon outlines and power point presentations to go with them online.  Part of Craig's job is to get the sermon outlines from pastors across the nation, and create a resource bank for our pastors to use.I was a bit stumped that I've worked here for five years and never knew about some of the free resources we offer, so I made it a point to get Craig on film talking about it.  This video ended up becoming a video intro for the entire pastor's area.  [kyte.tv appKey=MarbachViewerEmbedded&uri=channels/30228/84903&embedId=10030592&locale=en]
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Chad Jordan and LifeMatters
In the first video I did for LifeWay Conversations, I spoke with Chad Jordan, editor of LifeMatters for the Threads line of products.  It was  actually great to get to sit down with Chad and talk about the new product, as it is a drastic change in the presentation style for LifeWay's dated/ongoing studies.  What I didn't know when I went in to talk with him was that he actually had a copy of next quarter's materials as well he got to show off.  I'm not sure how well it translates to video, but the style and design are simply stellar. In all honesty, now that I've seen the materials and where the Threads team is going with all this, Ashley and I are considering starting a Sunday morning study at our church, just to use these materials. [kyte.tv appKey=MarbachViewerEmbedded&uri=channels/30228/84682&embedId=10030237&locale=en]
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LifeWay Conversations, mosaic nashville, threadsmedia.com, videoAaron LinneComment