David Bebawy, a techie deacon at St. George & St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church in Jersey City, has started a new blog and already has a great write up on getting started with Google Checkout for Non-Profits. He also has details on Ctech (Coptic Technology) and Coptic Presentations. David also setup a Google Group for anyone interested in keeping up with Ctech.

Presentation from Ctech on May 27, 2008:

St. George and St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church launched a new web site (running on Joomla!) a few months ago.  On the site you will find an updated presentations page containing the latest Coptic Presentation Applications as well as new interactive lessons that teach you how to read the Coptic language.  Now if only we could get an RSS feed on the presentation page so we know when the new stuff is released…

Virgin Mary & Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church Of Connecticut has released PowerPoint files for the Holy Pascha week based off the book they produced. All presentations are in English, Coptic and Arabic and can be run from any machine with Microsoft PowerPoint, PowerPoint viewer or OpenOffice.org.

You can get the individual PowerPoint files from icopts.com or download them all in a single zip here:

This is the first publicly released Pascha presentation that will work with other presentation software such as MediaShout, SundayPlus or LiveWorship. We currently use MediaShout to script all our services, typically we save the PowerPoint files as JPEG so that we can rearrange the order easily. Once the script is done, all we have to do is click space bar straight through the whole presentation, no jumping around. Also, MediaShout allows to make seamless, on the fly changes (adding in last minute sermon updates) due to it’s dual monitor setup.

St George and St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church released several new versions of their Coptic Presentation Application today. All presentations are in English, Coptic and Arabic and can be run from any Windows machine with Microsoft PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewer. I’ve placed the files on S3 for faster downloading.

The Palm Sunday Psalmody – New

Prayer of the Anointing of the Sick
Version 2

Lent Menu – March 31, 2007 – Updated
(Contains Palm Sunday Readings)

The Service of the Holy Pascha – April 6, 2007 – Updated
(Contains the Eve of Monday through Bright Saturday)

The Pentecost Katameros - Updated April 28, 2007

A friend of mine (who wishes to remain nameless), designed these PowerPoint backgrounds for Holy Week:

Download all the backgrounds – holyweekpptbackgrounds.zip

St. Mark Coptic Church in Jersey City, NJ has their Holy Week (Pascha) presentation available online in PDF format. Note that this presentation is based off the following book: The Holy Pascha: Order of Holy Week Services in the Coptic Orthodox Church.

St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church of Jersey City posted the presentation for the Prayer of the Anointing of the Sick (Unction Prayer). The presentation is in English, Coptic and Arabic and requires a Windows machine with Microsoft PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer.

Prayer of the Anointing of the Sick
Coptic Fonts

St George and St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church has published the Lenten version of their Coptic Presentation Application. Just like the annual version, this presentation is in English, Coptic and Arabic and can be run from any Windows machine with Microsoft PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewer.

St George and St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church along with other Coptic churches in the Northeast are doing a great job putting together a presentation application (PowerPoint based) that contains most of the church’s services, including the readings, liturgies, songs and Agpeya. The presentation is in English, Coptic and Arabic and can be run from any Windows machine with Microsoft PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewer. They are constantly updating the application, here is the latest update and the fonts required to view it.