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PRE-RELEASE SPECIAL
This Month's Articles:
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LOOKING AHEAD:
YEAR-ROUND PASSION
by Renée Harms
"He is risen!"
Easter has passed, but these words are still resounding in our ears, in our churches and in our hearts. They are words that fill the dark places of our lives with hope and promise.
I will never forget the emotion I experienced watching the last few moments of "The Passion of the Christ". I had just spent over two hours witnessing Mel Gibson's representation of the excruciating, incomprehensible suffering of Jesus. It was almost too much to bear as the reality of Christ's suffering was brought into perspective for me.
But then…then came Sunday. As I sat watching the closing scenes, tears still wet on my cheeks from viewing the Crucifixion, the picture started changing. The light of dawn appeared and grew brighter; I saw an empty cloth lying in the tomb; and then appeared a man-Jesus-looking very much alive, very much at peace, and very triumphant. And at that moment, I could hardly keep myself from jumping out of my seat and shouting, "HALLELUJAH!"
Read this complete article.
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 Now Presenting:
Screen calibration—Keeping Your Presentation in Focus
As I looked at my notes for this month's newsletter, I realized that last month I left everyone with the impression that April's lesson lab would focus on advanced PowerPoint techniques.
As I was deciding which direction to take the article, I received an email from a pastor who was having a hard time finding the safe areas of his screen. His PowerPoint slides were not working as well on the large screen as they were on his desktop.
After pondering the gentleman's predicament, I realized that many pastors and church media workers are left without the basic tools to calibrate their screens properly. Sure, most projectors come with some basic form of calibration, but they rarely explain how to use it successfully. Most people do not know the difference between title safe and action safe or how changing locations can distort the image and bend the picture. This month I thought it would be a good idea to offer our customers a tool that is both effective and simple to use.
I invite you to take a look at our Oxygen screen calibrator and its included instructions. I am certain that, with this tool, your days of wavy lines and bent slides will be no more. Learn to use this calibrator and watch everything come into focus!
Learn More and Receive Your Free Calibration Kit.
Oxygen Volume 6: Powerful and Topical Images
We are happy to announce that we have just finished the latest edition of our Oxygen series—Oxygen Volume 6. This volume is the first standard volume to offer Oxygen customers our new Presentation Design Center. We are continuing our tradition of offering an extensive collection of 450+ powerful images, backgrounds and templates perfect for a variety of sermon topics.
Volume 6 is definitely our best work yet. We are offering two new very cool backgrounds, plus we have placed every image on our master template. The images on Volume 6 offer a great variety of sermon topics. From the parting of the Red Sea to a beautiful graphic perfect for Memorial Day, Oxygen 6 is loaded with art that will move your congregation and add impact to any sermon.
We have also infused Volume 6 with great special features. You will find inspiring worship slides, maps and a customizable newspaper for creating your own topical sermons. We are offering this wonderful Christian graphics collection to our customers for the pre-release price of $79.95. This early release special won't last long, so take advantage of this amazing deal today!
See the images for Oxygen Volume 6.
NEW PRODUCT SURVEY
At Oxygen we are always looking for ways to improve and offer you, the customer, new tools for multimedia. In an effort to understand your needs better, we are asking customers to get involved in our product survey. On the survey you will be asked to rate 6 different product lines that we are considering releasing in the near future. With your input we will be able to increase our focus to bring you the tools that are important on the front lines where you work. If you have time and are interested in helping us with this future direction, please take the time to fill out this valuable survey. Take Our New Product Survey!
Thank you for joining us in this issue of Breathe. Next month, look for another e-mail loaded with church media tips and tools designed to help increase the visual impact of your service.
Here is a preview of what you will see next month:
Another feature article from Renée Harms Now Presenting: Worship software & Oxygen New Product Updates: Results from our product survey
Until then, go with God and be powerful for His Kingdom,
The Oxygen Team
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