Author Archive
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Fall Church IT Roundtable is Coming to the DC Metro Area – Oct. 26th
It was decided to not do a national Fall roundtable due to the economy, and the expensive nature of travel in general. Instead, we are going to make a strong push for some GREAT regional roundtables in the fall. DC is hosting one such round table at McLean Bible Church in Vienna, VA. The cost [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in DC CITRT by Andrew Mitry
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Media for Your Kids
Growing up in today’s culture, our children are inundated with all types of media throughout the day, from tv to radio to print. A lot of that media is negative or not appropriate for children, some Christians advocate having our kids grow up in a bubble, avoiding media completely. I think that a more moderate [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in AudioVisual,Children,Christianity by Andrew Mitry
Friday, June 5th, 2009
True Harmony
Let us consider those who serve under our generals and the order, obedience, and submissiveness with witch they perform the things commanded them. All are not prefects or commanders of a thousand, or of a hundred, or of fifty, or the like, but each one in his own rank performs the things commanded by the [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Orthodoxy by Andrew Mitry
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
TGIF – Trust God in Full
We (StMarkDC) had a wonderful retreat earlier this month where we saw God answer prayers and work so many miracles. Bishop David, Fr. Bishoy and Fr. Anthony delivered five amazing talks on trusting God in full. Over 450 young adults attended the retreat from all over the world and every part of it was an [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Retreats by Andrew Mitry
Friday, March 6th, 2009
Drupal Integration with FellowshipOne
At DrupalCon in DC this week, several people expressed interested in integrating Drupal and FellowshipOne. Fellowship Tech is demoing a new RESTful API, iPhone application, Facebook integration, ExpressionEngine, and ASP .NET MVC at the DC09 Developer Mini-Conference so the pieces may finally be coming together for a workable solution. Some of the possible features that [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Drupal,Fellowship One,Open Source by Andrew Mitry
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
OrthodoxSermons.org "2.0" is in the Works
Last May we started thinking about the next version of OrthodoxSermons.org, we took comments from our users, studied the market, did some of our own brainstorming and put together a wish list. We spent six months getting quotes from vendors and evaluating “out of the box” solutions. We narrowed all the possible options from a [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in OrthodoxSermons.org,Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Fr. Lazarus Saint Anthony
Last week a post over at Sneakers and Books caught my attention, Nader was highlighting a BBC “Extreme Pilgrim” program featuring Fr. Lazarus Saint Anthony. Back in the summer of 2000, I got to spend several weeks with Fr. Lazarus on a mission trip to Kenya and Tanzania. At that time he was serving as [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Mission,Orthodoxy by Andrew Mitry
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Restoring Removed Storage on VMware ESX/ESXi
Yesterday, I made a few mistakes and learned a few lessons. I was at a client site helping them move to VMware. We decided to switch one of their virtual machines from one VMware ESXi host to another. They have shared iSCSI storage (EqualLogic SAN), so it should have been a relatively simple procedure. I [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Virtualization by Andrew Mitry
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Twitter Resources
Twitter is a micro blogging platform that has taken off on the web, the short messages coupled with an easy to use system makes it a natural for techies and non-techies alike. Here a few resources to get you started. Make sure to follow me! Twitter explained: Anthony Coppedge’s E-Book, “The Reason Your Church Must [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Friday, January 16th, 2009
Google Video Alternatives
On Wednesday, Google announced they will be no longer allowing uploads to their Google Video service. Google invites you to use YouTube or Picasa, but the issue for churches is that sermons often exceed the 10 minute cap on video length. There are several competitors on the market that allow free uploads of any length [...]
