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Hello everyone, urgent request here! (PLEASE READ UPDATES BELOW IN ALL CAPS FROM 6/3/2016)
Ovi, a friend from Romania, has requested an image for a project he is launching! The deadline for submitting an image for this project is midnight, JUNE 6TH whatever your local time is, but to put it in his own words:
Do you think you can challenge your PRO photography group to meet this deadline? I am willing to give $30 for a good picture, and $50 for an excellent picture!
So let us rise to meet the challenge! Ovi is passionate about this project as you can see in the quotes I will use in providing the details here for you:
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• Requester: Ovi Micula, a Christian friend from Romania
• Purpose: “I would like to ask you to do a background image for the front (and single) page of the website: http://www.read-your-bible.com As you can see, it is just a simple Subscribe homepage, but a good background image is vital.”
• Request: Picture of a person reading their Bible
• Description: “It is a very important picture for the ‘Read your Bible’ program because it will be the visual identity of this program. The focus should be on the Bible, not the person; do not show the face of the person so as to identify them as a man or a woman; it should inspire the joy in the presence of God!; be bright and colorful; highest resolution; and if possible, the person in the picture to be a committed Christian.”
UPDATED, MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Ask the team to consider these additional thoughts regarding the requested picture:
• This picture will be the background for the website, the header for the weekly newsletter (cropped) and what people will share on social media.
• Please keep in mind that the target is of all ages, backgrounds, occupations and spiritual levels.
• This picture needs to show the most common setting for a person reading their Bible. Unfortunately this means the picture cannot be done outdoors (even though I really love the pictures that have nature in the background) and that the person needs to be sitting, not standing. Perhaps most people read their Bible on a couch or at a desk, so I would like to have one of these as the setting/background for the picture.
• If possible, I would like the picture to include a light turned on next to the couch / or on the desk. This is not a “must”, but I think that can help create a “warm” setting. It also can inspire people to wake up early in the morning to meed God and read their Bibles! 🙂
• I would prefer the person to have a shirt (long sleeve). And it doesn’t necessarily need to point with the finger. Don’t forget the focus on the Bible, not the person.
• I would also prefer the Bible to have two-columns on each page (again, that’s what most people use).
• And I’m serious about the $50!!! 🙂• Remuneration: “I am willing to give $30 for a good picture, and $50 for an excellent picture! AND I’m SERIOUS ABOUT THE $50!“
• Terms of Use: Both Ovi and the photographer retain the rights to use the picture at their own discression
• Priority: High!
• Deadline: Midnight, JUNE 6TH
• Contact: Reply to this topic with questions for Ovi
• Other Notes: “Let me tell you what this project is about: The Lord has put on my heart a burden to do something so that beloved believers would draw near to Him, spend time with Him and have a closer, more intimate relationship with Him! I asked God what was it, and He answered me. Three words: Read your Bible! 🙂 If I was asked to say just one thing that would revive a believer’s life, the harmony of a family or the effectiveness of a Church, and would revolutionize their entire existence, and would give them a much deeper and fulfilling meaning, and would give them lasting answers to any problem, that would certainly be: Read your Bible! So this project has a very clear goal: to encourage believers to read their Bibles! How to do that? By sending them every week a short but insightful encouragement to do just that! Let me share with you the titles and related verses (in draft):
1. Meet God! Read your Bible! (Exodus 33:11a; 1 Samuel 3:9b; Psalm 139:23-24)
2. Receive God’s love! Read your Bible! (1 John 4:19; John 15:9-10a)
3. Seek God with all your heart! Read your Bible! (Psalm 27:8; Jeremiah 29:13)
4. Know God! Read your Bible! (John 17:3; Jeremiah 9:23-24)
5. Love God with all your heart! Read your Bible! (Matthew 22:37-38; John 14:15)
6. Develop Spirit-to-spirit communication! Read your Bible! (John 4:23-24; 1 Corinthians 2:10)
7. Redeem the time! Listen to the audio Bible during diverse activities! (Ephesians 5:16-17)
8. Hear God’s voice! Read your Bible! (John 10:27; Matthew 13:9)
9. Find “the book”! And read it! (2 Chronicles 34:14..)
10. Read with your heart, not your mind only! Read your Bible! (1 Corinthians 8:1b; Psalm 66:18)
11. Take initiative! Read your Bible! (Genesis 1:1; John 3:16)
12. Do you have a sense of humor? Read your Bible!
13. Discover the great works for which God has created you! Read your Bible! (Jeremiah 1:5; Titus 2:14)
14. Know your identity! Read your Bible! (2 Corinthians 5:17; 2 Corinthians 5:21)
15. Live for eternity! Read your Bible! (Matthew 24:35; 1 Peter 1:23)
16. Follow God’s guidance one day at a time! Read your Bible today! (Psalm 119:105; Psalm 32:9, 8)
17. Eat the Bread of life every day! Read your Bible! (Matthew 6:11; Matthew 4:4b)
18. Do not fear! Read your Bible! (Isaiah 51:12-13a; Psalm 27:1)
19. Have hope through the patience and comfort of the scriptures! Read your Bible when you go through suffering! (Romans 15:4)
20. Receive God’s power! Read your Bible! (Acts 1:8; Romans 1:16)
21. Build your life upon the rock! Read your Bible! (Matthew 7:24; 1 Corinthians 3:11)
22. Whey you sit in your house… read your Bible! (Deuteronomy 6:7)
23. When you walk by the way… read your Bible! (Deuteronomy 6:7)
24. When you lie down… read your Bible! (Deuteronomy 6:7; Genesis 1:5)
25. When you rise up… read your Bible! (Deuteronomy 6:7; Isaiah 50:4b)
26. Let’s watch a “movie”! Open your Bible! (…)
27. Like the King, write a hand copy of God’s Law! (Deuteronomy 17:18-20)
28. When you’re confronted with sin, repent! Read your Bible! (Romans 7:7b; Psalm 51:6)
29. The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul! Read your Bible! (Psalm 19:7a; Psalm 23:1, 3)
30. Learn to hate evil! Read your Bible! (Proverbs 8:31)
31. Pour out your heart before God by praying Psalms! Read your Bible with a loud voice! (Ephesians 5:19; Proverbs 18:21)
32. Break up the fallow ground in your heart and sow in righteousness! Read your Bible! (Hosea 10:12; Isaiah 55:10-11)
33. Remove lies which you believe and live the truth! Read your Bible! (2 Corinthians 10:4-5)
34. Seek first the Kingdom of God! Read first the Bible! (Matthew 6:33; Romans 14:17)
35. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind! Read your Bible! (Romans 12:2; Isaiah 55:8-9)
36. Increase your faith! Read your Bible! (Romans 10:17)
37. Walk in the Spirit, not in the flesh! Read your Bible! (Galatians 5:16; Romans 8:6)
38. Grow in maturity! Read your Bible! (1 Peter 2:2)
39. Develop the character of Christ! Read your Bible! (Hebrews 1:3a)
40. Build wise and meaningful relationships! Learn it reading your Bible!
41. Get wisdom! Read your Bible! (the spirit of wisdom)
42. Receive light! Read your Bible! (Psalm 119:130; John 8:12)
43. Grow in discernment! Read your Bible! (Hebrews 5:14)
44. Test the spirits! Read your Bible! (1 John 4:1; 1 Corinthians 2:12)
45. Attend to a royal education! Read your Bible! (the king; 2 Timothy 3:16-17)
46. Gather the treasures of Bible teachings! Read your Bible!
47. Read your Bible and ask questions!
48. Learn God’s purposes and principles for finances! Read your Bible! (Deuteronomy 8:17-18)
49. Whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord! Get motivated reading your Bible! (Colossians 3:22-24)
50. Avoid or resolve stress! Read your Bible!
51. [ Type here your own title! 🙂 ] Read your Bible!
52. Persevere! Read your Bible!So short messages with these titles will be sent one per week during a year. I’m very curious how this ‘program’ will impact the lives of beloved believers! Please let me know if you can do the requested picture. The Lord give you a great day!”
Let us reply with our submissions!
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Here are a couple ideas… Trying to get a photo of “someone reading a Bible” that is not gendre specific is difficult. I can easily tell whether a shirt/skirt/pants/hand belongs to a man or a woman, but perhaps at a glance most won’t notice.
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I wouldn’t worry too much about the small details interrupting with the non-gender specific request, @frazer-family. I think Ovi just wants to make sure the focus is on the Bible and that in general it doesn’t look feminine or masculine at first impression as the program is for both men and women. On another note, here’s a suggestion if you have the time, what sort of pictures do you think you could come up with under a more natural, less direct, and more ambient light setup?
@greghahner, thanks for your submission.Thanks for the suggestions! I’m having fun! I moved outdoors where the lighting is usually easier. 🙂
Here are a few more ideas.
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Hi! Here a few photos I have taken! I know that faces weren’t particularly wanted in the images, but I thought I would submit them for a bit of variation. 😀
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SO AMAZING!
Yesterday morning I sent Ovi a quick note letting him know that submissions were coming in and this was his reply . . .
Your help encourages me enormously! This is a very challenging period for me with so many things going on (both in our family and in the ministry) and I felt I just didn’t have the energy to look for this picture which is so important for the “Read your Bible” project. I’m so happy and refreshed that the Lord put on my heart to send you an e-mail about it and you’re doing such a great job!! It’s very exciting to learn that there have been two submissions so far!!
Can’t wait to show him the rest of these ideas and any more that might come before midnight tonight!
Excellent! Thank you everyone, soooo much! I will be showing these to Ovi and announce which picture he chose here soon!
Well, @frazer-family, @greghahner, @creative-click-photography and @hannahm, Ovi has reviewed the pictures and . . . has challenged us to push our pictures to the next level! To us, and anyone else who will join in with their submissions, let us use this as an opportunity to continue growing. In his own words:
Thank you for sending the pictures! I’ve received both e-mails and I love them!!!
I appreciate so much the diligence the team put in making these pictures!! They helped me clarify my thoughts and better understand what I need for the “Read your Bible” project. There are several pictures that I was considering, but I would like to share with you further ideas regarding the picture I would like.
So what are his critiques? and how would he like us to do better? Thankfully he has provided some very detailed instructions that will help us on this second round:
“Ask the team to consider these additional thoughts regarding the requested picture:
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• This picture will be the background for the website, the header for the weekly newsletter (cropped) and what people will share on social media.
• Please keep in mind that the target is of all ages, backgrounds, occupations and spiritual levels.
• This picture needs to show the most common setting for a person reading their Bible. Unfortunately this means the picture cannot be done outdoors (even though I really love the pictures that have nature in the background) and that the person needs to be sitting, not standing. Perhaps most people read their Bible on a couch or at a desk, so I would like to have one of these as the setting/background for the picture.
• If possible, I would like the picture to include a light turned on next to the couch / or on the desk. This is not a “must”, but I think that can help create a “warm” setting. It also can inspire people to wake up early in the morning to meed God and read their Bibles! 🙂
• I would prefer the person to have a shirt (long sleeve). And it doesn’t necessarily need to point with the finger. Don’t forget the focus on the Bible, not the person.
• I would also prefer the Bible to have two-columns on each page (again, that’s what most people use).
• And I’m serious about the $50!!! 🙂Thank you so much, James! Can’t wait to see the new pictures!”
Let’s keep pressing on! And remember, the new deadline is midnight June 6th.
Here’s another idea… I don’t feel that it quite meets the criteria, though, the “bright and colourful” part being rather absent. I’ll have to keep trying.
Oh, and, James, I’m assuming that he wants the Bible to be in English, since he’s writing to you in that language (unless, of course, you’ve been translating his emails for us)? I don’t have a Romanian Bible – Russian or French is the closest I can get.
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Here’s yet another idea – on a couch this time. It doesn’t contain the lamp, but I find the early morning sunlight (aka external flash bounced off a yellow windbreaker 🙂 ), renders the scene more joyful.
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Thank you for going the extra mile, @frazer-family. I don’t believe the English language makes a difference. Will see what Ovi has to say now that the second deadline has passed!
And a winner has been chosen! @Frazer-Family, thank you for your persistence in pursuing this opportunity to the end. Ovi saw your picture, 20160603_ELF_9627.jpg, and said “Wow, James, this is exactly what I had in mind! Praise the Lord!!!”
So, you have earned your $50! You should be hearing from Ovi directly. Thank you for shooting to serve! In conclusion, here is Ovi’s final email to me about this project:
Thank you for your amazing help with the photo for Read your Bible! It was such an incredible experience to collaborate with you guys! I was so encouraged and blessed by you all! – What do you think about the website’s background?
Through the grace of God, Read-Your-Bible.com was launched and our prayer is that it will encourage believers to just grab their Bible and read it! Feel free to share the link!
The Lord give you a wonderful week!
Congratulations @frazer-family! Good Job! I’m glad it worked out for Ovi to pick one of these pictures! These are great opportunities to practice for, more than just for yourself!
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