Our friend Joanna made a fantastic video to show everyone what we saw happen during the South and North tour of the Medical Ship! We thought we might post this so you could have a look at what happened… There’s a pretty good shot of Nick manning the sound desk and myself performing. It was [...]
Recently ABC, Australias national news network, did a segment on us and the medical ship. Check it out: Medical Ship on ABC News
Check out the latest saving sparrow video:
Here’s our latest and probably final update for the USA tour 2009:
Here’s a special performance done by Sara on the mouth piano. Sorry about the bad video quality.
This is the latest ‘Let Justice Sing’ tour update. We’ll be putting out regular updates so check back soon for more!
As you may have read in some of our previous posts our centre is gearing up to bring in a ship next year that will provide medical aid to the people of Papua New Guinea. One of our tasks in our media department was to come up with a video that would give people an [...]
Here’s a short video that gives an idea of what we did in Thailand with the School of Music in Missions.
While we were in Thailand with the School of Music in Missions from YWAM (Youth With A Mission) we had the opportunity to celebrate Songkron which is the Thai New Year festival. They celebrate by throwing water on anyone and everyone who passes by. This goes on for about three days. We had to be [...]
Even on outreach we take a day off once a week. A few weeks ago we spent that day at the Murphy’s farm. Jenny and Sam Murphy are staff at Reef to Outback and we’ve known them for quite a while, so it was nice to see where they grew up. They generously shared with [...]
This past week has been amazing for our team. We spent the past week in Byron Bay. We did everything from playing down at the beach with free BBQ to sharing the love of Jesus at ‘Mardi Grass’ the local festival to celebrate drugs. Here’s a short video I made: Photos courtesy Bradii
Last Friday we had the opportunity to worship with 11 YWAM (Youth With A Mission) locations from around the world. The event, called ‘One Voice’ is meant to ‘”bring greater unity in the YWAM family.” Each location had an opportunity to lead out in a song. Sara led one of the songs with Aidan Jones. [...]
Check out our latest iNews. Joanna Orpia put this one together and I helped a bit with filming and audio.
Stable on the Strand is Townsville’s yearly event held down at the local beach. This year was a huge hit with estimates of close to 40,000 coming to the event. Each year a play is put on that represents the true Christmas story. This year ‘The Promise’ took it one step further. Not only did [...]
Here’s a few videos put together by our friend Joanna to give you and idea of what happened on the Voice in the Dark Tour that Sara was a part of.
These are the videos that Stephen, Joanna and myself worked on for the Voice in the Dark Tour that Sara went on. The tour was mainly geared toward school kids showing them that there are injustices happening in the world and that they could do something about it. These videos were shown during the concert. [...]
Check out the new Reef to Outback iNews made by Josiah Ritner who is on our communications team.
Ken Mulligan, our director here at Reef to Outback, was recently awarded ‘Citizen of the Year’ award. The city recognized him and his work over the past 15 years in Townsville. It was really amazing to see the mayor of Townsville, Tony Mooney, publicly recognize us as an organization. I’m not sure if he is [...]
Stable on the Strand just finished about three weeks ago. I put together a short video to give you an idea of how it looked this year. Stable on the Strand is a week long event during Christmas that’s held at our local beach. Almost every church in Townsville gets involved to tell the public [...]
My friend Stephen came over the other day to roast some coffee. He started buying green coffee beans over the internet and has been roasting them in two popcorn machines. Check out the video I made (sorry about the poor audio quality. I didn’t realize how loud the popcorn machines were):
Check out our latest video news here at Reef to Outback.
Here’s another update from the road. I put this together at 3am while we were driving from Denver to LA. Enjoy!
What’s th first thing most people do once they’re married? Go on tour with a band, right? Sara and I were married just over a week ago and that’s exactly where we are, in North Carolina. We’re on tour with Sara’s band from Australia, Five Star Streets. Don’t worry we are having a honeymoon but [...]
Sara here. So, I have this thing where I don’t think that Nick can ever surprise me because I am always searching for clues. Every little thing he says, I analyze into a trick that’s being played. Well, he told me he was going camping last weekend with his friends Peter and Sebastian. I fully [...]
RTO (Reef to Outback) is going back to its roots. That means that more of our outreaches will focus on people in isolated communities in northern Australia. To get up there we needed something that could handle the terrain. There aren’t many roads so that’s why we recently purchased ‘The Oka’ (pronounced aa-ka). The April [...]
Before Sara and I came home in December we made a little tour of the YWAM (Youth With A Mission) Base here in Townsville. We hope this will give you a little better idea of where we work. Enjoy!
Our communications department have been working on this video for a while and now it’s finally done. Check it out:
We are finally seeing Impact World Tour (IWT) coming through North Queensland. It’s been two year in the making but it’s finally here. The teams started to arrive last week and headed off to Mt. Isa on Sunday. The tour will be happening there in the next few days. It will come here to Townsville [...]
You may have remebered when I posted a ‘Reel’ a few months back. It’s basically a montage of all the work I’ve done for the past while. I’ve made a new one that is much the same as the old one but includes a few more clips of things I’ve been working on in After [...]
The past few weeks we’ve been focusing on video in the School of Digital Communications (SDC (School of Digital Communications)). We’ve had Jordan Dodson from New Zealand as our guest speaker for the last two weeks. He’s been covering everything from compressing video to the film industry. Last week the students were working in pairs [...]
Last night the School of Music in Mission (SOMM (School of Music in Missions)) graduated. They have been working hard since January to use their musical talents to glorify God and further the gospel. As many of you may know there is someone I love who was on the SOMM and graduated last night. Sara [...]
You met Justin Claypool last week. Now you can see the other seven students who are currently doing the School of Digital Communications here at Reef to Outback. For those of you who don’t know I’m currently staffing the school with Josiah Ritner. Things have been going quite well and we are now moving into [...]
To give you a better idea of what the students on the 2006 SDC (School of Digital Communications) are learning I’ve put together a short video. We’ve covered three programs so far, all to do with print media. This video features Justin Claypool speaking on cross cultural week. See the Video (you must have Qucktime [...]
As many of you may have already heard cyclone Larry hit the coast of Australia on Monday (March 20). It was a category 5 with winds gusting to 290KM/h. The good news is that Townsville was spared and was only hit by the bottom edge of the cyclone. The bad news is that that town [...]
After 36 hours and several hours worth of delays I made my way back to Townsville, Australia last week. I was greeted by some small changes and some work to do. The real fun came on Saturday night though. As many of you know we held a cafe every Friday where people from the surrounding [...]
Many of you know that I work in the communications department at Reef to Outback, but are still unsure of what I actually do. I put together a short ‘reel’ of my work. This is just the video work that I’ve been doing. It’s quick so keep those eyes sharp! For all the geeks out [...]
“I got Starbucks!” This is usually the routine response when a staff member recives a package from home and contains the addictive, yet delicious drink we know as coffee. Starbucks seems to be a real staff favourite around here. Since we got our espresso machine several months back for the Friday Night Cafe, the quality [...]
For those of you that have been following and have read about my ups and downs in regards to the Stable on the Strand video that I’ve been making you can now finally watch it! If you know nothing about Stable on the Strand you can visit their website at: www.stableonthestrand.com.au or you can read [...]
“I need someone for the 8:00pm to 1:00am shift on Saturday. Anyone interested?” I raised my hand only because of the fact that I knew Taikoz was preforming that night, and though I’d never heard of them I figured it was going to be a great performance. It was an amazing show in an equally [...]
This video was made by myself and John Melvin for our final project on SDC. The topic of the video is on something we call the ‘fear of man’.
This is a short commercial that I made during my SDC. It was made using Adobe Premiere and had to portray a character of God.
The ‘Great Commission’ is one of the last commands that Jesus gave His disciples. This is the basis of my video that I made during SDC.