22 September 2010
In colour by Hey!Hi!Hello!
This was a music video collaboration between 2 girls from my youth group and me.
Yet again I'm out in Banbridge in pyjamas for the third time ever... you would think I liked wearing PJs in public but I know it ain't a normal thing... unlike some....
21 September 2010
09 September 2010
Vote for me in the Hillsong Live Music Video Comp!
Vote for me in the Hillsong Live Music Video Comp!
http://live.hillsong.com/votenow
Rate "Ruth Elkin" as 5 stars please!
18 August 2010
11 August 2010
Youth Ministry YouTube Recommendations
http://www.youtube.com/godrox
http://www.youtube.com/tfneditor
http://www.youtube.com/youthspecialti...
http://www.youtube.com/thatjustinguy
http://www.youtube.com/chooseshalom
http://www.youtube.com/xbox360fanboy131
Ignatius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLGLBVSpBzY
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01 July 2010
11 June 2010
My YouTube Story
It was YouTube's 5th birthday recently and as part of the 'celebrations' people were sharing their YouTube story. Here is mine, however it does miss out the vitally important detail that one of my youth group (TheOriginalMcGoo) was the one who inspired me to start making videos.
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22 March 2010
The rest of our trip in Lebanon
Day 2
Days 3 and 4
Days 3 and 4
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17 March 2010
A day in Lebanon
A bit about our trip and the Lebanese food we've enjoyed...
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09 March 2010
Free Christian Children's Talk 6 - Humpty Dumpty
So I've just got back into doing children's talks in church since the new minister started back in September. Was a bit nervous but people seemed to enjoy this one so here it is for all to read/share/use etc...
Who knows of any nursery rhymes?
Let the children give a few answers
There are lots of different nursery rhymes, but I want to talk about one in particular, it's Humpty Dumpty. Can you say it with me?
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
Excellent! I wonder does anyone know what Humpty looks like?
Let the children answer, they'll hopefully know the answer is...
...an egg! Yes he looks like an egg! I have one with me here. I didn't have Stewie as an aide at the time but he wanted to help today...

And what happened to Humpty when he fell? He cracked! So let's crack this egg (be sure to do this into a bowl or something and not just the floor!)

Oh dear! Look at poor Humpty! He's not in a good shape at all is he? I wonder how we could get him back together? What do you think the king's horses and king's men tried to do to fix him?
Allow a few answers - I got some funny ones including sellotape, superglue, masking take, staples, blu-tac and magic!
If you have time you cold try and get the egg back in the shell and try to stick together to show how difficult this is

I don't think we can do it. But you know sometimes we can be in messy situations that seem hard to get out of, a bit like poor Humpty. Maybe you've fell out with a friend over something and it seems there's just no way to sort it out, or maybe you're having trouble at school and it seems no one can help, or perhaps you've done something wrong and you don't know how to fix it. We can all get into hard and messy situations like Humpty from time to time.
But we're not like Humpty are we? We're not eggs! We're people and even better we're God's people! And when we have problems we don't need the King's horses or the King's men, because we have God who is the King on our side! When we ask him for help and allow him to help us, the King will get us out of the sticky messy situation we're in
Who knows of any nursery rhymes?
Let the children give a few answers
There are lots of different nursery rhymes, but I want to talk about one in particular, it's Humpty Dumpty. Can you say it with me?
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
Excellent! I wonder does anyone know what Humpty looks like?
Let the children answer, they'll hopefully know the answer is...
...an egg! Yes he looks like an egg! I have one with me here. I didn't have Stewie as an aide at the time but he wanted to help today...

And what happened to Humpty when he fell? He cracked! So let's crack this egg (be sure to do this into a bowl or something and not just the floor!)

Oh dear! Look at poor Humpty! He's not in a good shape at all is he? I wonder how we could get him back together? What do you think the king's horses and king's men tried to do to fix him?
Allow a few answers - I got some funny ones including sellotape, superglue, masking take, staples, blu-tac and magic!
If you have time you cold try and get the egg back in the shell and try to stick together to show how difficult this is

I don't think we can do it. But you know sometimes we can be in messy situations that seem hard to get out of, a bit like poor Humpty. Maybe you've fell out with a friend over something and it seems there's just no way to sort it out, or maybe you're having trouble at school and it seems no one can help, or perhaps you've done something wrong and you don't know how to fix it. We can all get into hard and messy situations like Humpty from time to time.
But we're not like Humpty are we? We're not eggs! We're people and even better we're God's people! And when we have problems we don't need the King's horses or the King's men, because we have God who is the King on our side! When we ask him for help and allow him to help us, the King will get us out of the sticky messy situation we're in
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02 March 2010
You got the love
A step into the world of vlogging with a cover of Florence and the Machine's version of "You got the love"
20 August 2009
Oopsy Cakesy
Today we had a "Fun Day" at church and I had bought a High School Musical box of cake mix for the group to make to go with lunch. The girls got into making it while I got o with sorting other lunchy bits out, so they emptied the box and got on with it. Apparently Katie asked me if both the bags of stuff had to go into the mixture and apparently I said "Yes" but I can't recall this conversation. So she chucked it all together, mixed in the butter, water and eggs and poured into the tray then put it all in the oven to bake. While I was clearing up the rubbish I wondered where the icing had gone to and discovered that the icing had been put into the cake mixture and was now in the oven. We worried it all may turn out a little too sweet but left it to bake and we got on with lunch and playing with HSM stickers.

When it came to eating the cake it looked good, smelled good and had a slight glaze on the top from all the sugar in it! It was real good, even with the icing IN it not ON it. So an experiment gone wrong but that turned out good and we had fun decorating it with the HSM rice paper decorations and sugary stars.

When it came to eating the cake it looked good, smelled good and had a slight glaze on the top from all the sugar in it! It was real good, even with the icing IN it not ON it. So an experiment gone wrong but that turned out good and we had fun decorating it with the HSM rice paper decorations and sugary stars.
19 March 2009
my albums
Jools posted this great little "meme" thing-a-mee that I couldn't resist doing - so much so I did it twice!
Here's what you do
1 - Go to "wikipedia ." Hit “random article”
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to "Random quotations "
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to flickr and click on the “explore" tab and select "the last seven days”
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.
Here's the results of my two.

Here's what you do
1 - Go to "wikipedia ." Hit “random article”
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to "Random quotations "
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to flickr and click on the “explore" tab and select "the last seven days”
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.
Here's the results of my two.

17 March 2009
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