Author Archives: Jim Baker

01.22.10 – why a vision statement is important

out and about with the 5dm2 // jamestown NY // jan 2010 In a previous post I asked other youth pastors if they could sum up what they were trying to do in 5 sentences or less. We had an awesome ongoing conversation with 26 comments. It challenged me to think about a lot, and […]

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01.21.10 – layout changes and twitter

Jason approves // dec 2009 // 20d So as you’re looking around you probably notice some things… the header image changed… its still an image from our engagement shoot by Pranee Loffer though. I added a twitter feed below so you can see what’s going on most recently. If you tweet add me @jimjessbaker I’m […]

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01.20.10 – one week till we leave for KENYA!

The Africa Team! Photo Courtesy of Josiah Blick.Jess, Jim, Anne, Heather, Dave, Arielle, Brian and Devonne. Next week at this time we will all be on a plane headed for half way across the world to Migori Kenya. So here’s a little bit more detailed post about what we’ll be doing while we are over […]

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01.19.10 – WOAH! Daniel Chung’s art

I was just looking at Daniel’s facebook profile tonite and ran across his album of artwork from his first year in college. I am BLOWN AWAY. I met Daniel in the summer of 2007 in Comitan Mexico. He came down with his youth group to serve where my team was already. I asked his permission […]

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01.18.10 – digital noise ISO

As I mentioned in this post, I bought the canon 5dm2 because of its full frame sensor which allows it to handle noise much better at high ISO’s. Meaning better quality pictures in low light. Below are some completely unedited examples of how my different cameras handle ISO 3200. Chris and Sharon’s wedding // October […]

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01.17.10 – Dan Mohler

dan preaching friday night // iso 3200 5dm2 So I’m not going to lie, there was a lot of hype to the leading up to Dan Mohler coming and speaking to our church… I was getting a little sick of hearing his name. (I’m just being real.) But the hype was underplayed, Dan Mohler was […]

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01.15.10 – cf cards

taken today with the g11 In this post I complained a bit about having to throw down a pretty penny on bigger and faster cf cards for my new camera. I tested my san disk extreme pro 16 gig card this morning and am amazed at the speed. I remember vividly the first time card […]

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01.13.10 – what are we working towards?

photo by me // feb 2008 // kailua kona hawaii This post stems out of my own frustration, of trying to figure out what the real goal is of our youth ministry. What is it that I want the students in our ministry to walk away with? What do we want their lives to really […]

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01.12.10 – truth

taken with the 5dm2 Last night at our youth group we talked about truth. Some of the students preformed a skit where the main character was trying to figure out what 2+2 was. As she asked people this question, people told her different answers based on how it felt, or gave a convincing argument simply […]

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01.11.10 – remain

on a walk with the 5dm2 REMAIN – verbcontinue to exist, esp. after other similar or related people or things have ceased to exist Saturday the 9th about twenty of us twenty-somethings gathered for two hours in the PF cafe for some musical worship led from an electric guitar. The sermon time seemed more like […]

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